Martin Harizanov wanted his Raspberry Pi to tweet whenever his coffee machine was ready to be used. So, he decided to use a light-dependent resistor to monitor the ‘ready’ LED on the coffee machine. It’s a bit low-tech in that…
Category: Internet of things
Radio Pi driven by #RaspberryPi
Afraid I haven’t got a name for the author of this one, but it’s over on tweetypi.co.uk. Here’s a nice little project – a birthday present. It’s an internet-enabled wireless radio made out of a LEES draught bitter box! Inside…
Find out who is ringing your doorbell by email with a #RaspberryPi
Martin over at harizanov.com has hacked into a wireless doorbell and used his Raspberry Pi to take a picture of the person ringing the doorbell and then sending an email notification, including the picture. This project requires some soldering and electronics…
The #RaspberryPi Microwave
Nathan Broadbent has built a Raspberry Pi into his microwave. It scans the normal barcode of a product, looks it up on an online database and this dictates the cooking instructions. It also allows voice commands and tweets when it’s…
#RaspberryPi powered pollution monitor – the AirPi
Two kids from Westminster School in London have created a pollution monitoring system with a Raspberry Pi. It records temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels and monitors for various pollutants like carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. They have said that…
Live weather mapping with lots of #RaspberryPi
Just a quick blog. Over at DragonTail, they have a map showing loads of weather stations driven by the Raspberry Pi. Go and check it out
The Foundation get a cloud-enabled #RaspberryPi controlled coffee machine (updated: Build your own!)
Thanks to a generous gift from US-based company Zipwhip, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a coffee machine. But this is no ordinary coffee machine, Oh No! This one can be texted when coffee is needed and then sends a…
Simple two-way NFC/RFID communications with #RaspberryPi and Adafruit
Adafruit has just published a guide to doing NFC/RFID communications with their breakout board. Read the guide
#RaspberryPi bird box with BBC Springwatch
Dr Andrew Robinson has written a blog post about how they’ve used the Raspberry Pi to monitor visits to a bird box and various environmental conditions. He’s hoping to publish instructions on how to set it up so that others…
#RaspberryPi Home Energy Monitor
Steve Swindley has created a household energy monitor from a Raspberry Pi, a Current Cost ENVI and an LED Borg from PiBorg. It’s all controlled with Python. Read more about how he did it here