The Foundation have just blogged about an excellent virtual machine that runs on the Raspberry Pi. It was written by Adrian Cable and is at an early stage at the moment. The end result he’s hoping for is that the…
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#RaspberryPi magazine The MagPi issue 20 out now
Long-running free magazine The MagPi have just published their 20th issue. Check it out now.
Interface a #RaspberryPi with a wireless driveway sensor receiver
Ted Hale has taken a cheap wireless movement detector, put the detector at the end of his drive and then hacked the receiver to connect up to a Raspberry Pi. It’s a nice little project that required building a small…
#RaspberryPi powered Joke Machine
Tim Massaro has written an Instructable to create a Pi Joke Machine. He’s used a PiFace Control and Display (which is an LCD screen with added buttons) and wrapped it all up in a project box. Read how to do…
PWM dimming of an LED on the #RaspberryPi
A father-and-daughter team wants to control servo motors using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) on the Raspberry Pi. As a demonstration of how possible this is, they’ve started out by using PWM with an LED to fade it up and down.…
Control a LEGO motor with a #RaspberryPi and a Gertboard
Karl Herrick has taken a Gertboard and a 4.5v LEGO motor and linked them up to the Pi. He’s then looked at Alex Eames’ Python Gertboard suite and written some test scripts as a proof-of-concept. Read about how he did…
Fish Dish Pi from PiSupply for the #RaspberryPi
Paul Brown’s done a nice write-up and exploration of the Fish Dish expansion board over on smstext. Nice use of Daniel Bull’s BerryIO, too. Read it here
Tweeting with the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has written his second post in a series he’s doing using Tweepy to send/receive tweets on a Pi. Read how to do it here
Complete #RaspberryPi course from Intertech
Training company Intertech has been very generous and published the complete set of course materials from their Complete Raspberry Pi Training class. Here are the segments: Set-up the Pi, install the operating system and get the training files onto the…
What is Node-Red? And how do you use it on the #RaspberryPi?
Adafruit has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the Node-Red visual development environment to work on the Raspberry Pi and given details on what you can use it for. Read it here