Rachel Gibbs, over at Initial State, has written a great tutorial which gets a Pi Zero online via a mobile data connection. She’s added a GPS module to the FONA board and then powered the lot using a small LIPO…
Category: Internet of things
Use Initial State to create a system health dashboard for your Raspberry Pi
Initial State is one of the ever-growing list of sites that take data from your internet of things device and allow you to create dashboards displaying that data. It is one of the better ones, and they’ve certainly ploughed a…
For when you absolutely have to have EVERYTHING controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Matt Mahdavi took a Raspberry Pi A+ and installed the Kodi operating system onto it. He then also installed WebIOPi (an Internet of Things framework) to allow him to control a variety of household devices. These include lights, the TV…
Get started with Grove sensors with the GrovePi-Zero
US-based Dexter Industries has just launched a new Kickstarter which aims to get you started using Grove sensors. The GrovePi-Zero is, unsurprisingly, a Zero form-factor add-on board which gives you plug-in connections for six Grove modules – 3 analog, 1…
Create a two-person nuclear activation device with Raspberry Pi
Dylan Schuster over at losant.com has taken two Raspberry Pi 3s and hooked them up to two custom turn-key-and-button boxes. He’s then used Losant’s new MQTT and REST clients to make them Internet of Things devices. By sending messages from the…
What’s inside the fridge? Using a Raspberry Pi to take stock
Mike Moyer was tired of seeing Samsung commercials for the Family Hub refrigerator with the built-in camera and decided to make his own using a Raspberry Pi, a webcam and a light sensor. Every time the fridge is opened, the Pi…
Control and maintain your pool via a web browser using a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a massive project for you. Normally, pool automation systems cost somewhere in the region of $10k. So, an Instructables user decided to create his own using a Raspberry Pi. He hooked up all the inputs for the main swimming…
View and analyze the Astro Pi data in your web browser
Jamie Bailey from Initial State has been in contact. They have taken the data from Ed and Izzy, the two AstroPi units on the International Space Station, and imported it into their Internet of Things platform. They have made the entire graphing display…
Polish heating system gets an upgrade with Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames owns a house in Poland with a heating problem: the furnace and the general system are like something out of the stone age and Poland, being the way it is, is often very cold. So, he’s brought a…
Getting started with IoT platform Cayenne on the Raspberry Pi
I recently installed and tried out “Cayenne“, which is an Internet of Things platform for the Raspberry Pi. You hook sensors up to your Pi, create the relevant boxes on Cayenne and then you can see readings over the Internet. Not…