Alex Eames (from RasPi.TV and Rasp.io) has run several Kickstarters and his new one looks to be his best yet. His new campaign is called RasPiO Inspiring. It is a new system for ‘sculpting with RGB LEDs’ and is made…
Rui Santos from Portugal has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for those who want to get into ESP8266 boards and control them from a Raspberry Pi. He uses Python on the Raspberry Pi, with imported MQTT libraries, and C code…
Here’s a good little tutorial I found on GitHub. It uses an 801s vibration module and a Raspberry Pi Zero to detect vibrations from a home appliance, such as a washing machine. If it detects stillness for a specified amount of…
Spencer Organ has been putting his making skills to use with this Harry Potter-inspired build. Taking his cue from both the Weasley Clock and the Marauders’ Map, he’s taken a Raspberry Pi, an Explorer HAT, an Arduino, some servos and…
Pat Peters from Omaha, Nebraska has taken inspiration from the Wizarding World’s famous Weasley Clock and built his own Internet of Things clock, using a Raspberry Pi (a B+ in this case). Tracking the locations of both himself and his wife,…
Achilleus from Samnium has contacted me about an application he’s written for the Raspberry Pi 3. It is a light framework for reading data from multiple sensors and sending them over the network. It’s called IoTWork.Reader and was developed in…
SwitchDoc Labs have launched their latest Kickstarter – SmartPlantPi. It’s a plant-monitoring system suitable for families and schools that measures and keeps track of the following: Soil moisture Sunlight level Air quality Temperature and humidity It uses the Grove system…
Harry Fairhead over at i-programmer.info has written a nice getting started guide for Android Things, the new Java-based platform for the Raspberry Pi 3. He covers getting the image installed on the Pi and the initial connection, before going on to…
Seb Lee-Delisle is a digital artist who decided to bring some Internet of Things magic to his Christmas decorations. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi and some addressable fairy lights and rigged up an alphabet display on his wall (see below for…
Over at DesignSpark, Dr Lucy Rogers has written a great tutorial which fuses the Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, an ESP8266 module and some Neopixels into a bus warning system. The system has the following features: A visual alert to tell…
