James Bruce has written a nice tutorial on creating a daemon that runs on the Pi to tweet webcam images. A little modification, perhaps using the previously posted Python library, to use the Raspicam and you have a great project!…
Category: Internet of things
BBC covers the #RaspberryPi InstantWild project
The InstantWild project, which was instigated by the Zoological Society of London and developed by Cambridge Consultants, has been covered in an article over on the BBC News website. Cambridge Consultants’ (and fellow Cambridge Raspberry Jam-mer) Jonathan Pallant said, “These…
Cheap wireless communication between a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Conor O’Neill has worked out how to get the Arduino and the Pi communicating wirelessly using some cheap nRF24L01+ modules. These things cost all of 1.26 Euros and seem like a great addition to your electronics kit. Read more here
Cambridge Consultants & ZSL – saving the rhino with the #RaspberryPi
Cambridge News have done a nice piece on this ecology project from the Zoological Society of London. They have partnered up with Cambridge Consultants (who recently hosted our second Cambridge Raspberry Jam to great success) to create remote cameras which…
Wireless Serial Communication with the #RaspberryPi – Part 1
A blog post on A Slice of Raspberry Pi details how to set-up the Pi end of a wireless serial link. It uses the Slice of Pi GPIO board to do this. The second part, which shows how to set-up…
Wireless freezer monitor with a #RaspberryPi
Malakai at Raspbians has written a great tutorial that tells you how to create a wireless freezer monitor system using a Raspberry Pi and some bits and pieces for about £35 (not including the Pi itself). Read the tutorial here
4-note piano with a #RaspberryPi and a #PicoBorg
The guys over at Governor Technology have taken a Raspberry Pi, a PiBorg, a PicoBorg and some solenoids and created a 4-note piano. Take a look and see how they did it and play the piano live! Read it here
Add mobile network access to your #RaspberryPi or Arduino
From Arstechnica.com: A new Kickstarter project aims to give Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards Internet access throughout the world with an add-on that allows integration with a SIM card. SparqEE Cellv1.0 would need to raise $70,000 to get the technology…
#RaspberryPi Wireless Inventors Kit (RasWIK) from Ciseco
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation to Ciseco apart from having met representatives from the company at a Jam. I had the great pleasure of meeting Miles Hodkinson and Rebecca Smith from Ciseco at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on 20th July.…
Rescued pet bird gets a #RaspberryPi powered surveillance system
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully…