Hacker Ed Dawson has used an addressable strip of LED lights and some circuitry to create a sunrise clock. He’s done a complete write-up on reproducing his project. This is especially impressive because until the creation of some Python drivers…
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Easy internet radio with a #RaspberryPi
Using a Pi, a button and a resistor, it’s possible to create this ultra-simple internet radio. Giles Booth has written the project up and you can read all about it here. Thanks to Pi Weekly for spotting this!
Voice controlled electrical outlets with the #RaspberryPi
Ben Finio has written an excellent Instructable in which he details the process of reverse-engineering some wireless remotes for electrical sockets and then combines them with a Pi running Steven Hickson‘s VoiceCommand software. Read all about it here
Get the CPU and GPU temperatures of the #RaspberryPi in Python
Nice little bit of Python from the ‘piman’. He’s written two functions to get the core system temperatures. Read how to do it
Use Wolfram Mathematica to do more on your #RaspberryPi than you thought possible
And I thought that Mathematica was only for doing maths on the Pi. Boy was I wrong! The Foundation have just published a great article linking to several examples that show Mathematica doing some cool stuff over the GPIO. Read…
Add video streaming from your #RaspberryPi robot to a web device
This article from Linux User & Developer builds upon their previous work to do with building a robot with a Pi. To start with, the article takes you through using mpeg-streamer very nicely to stream video from your Pi Cam.…
A portable classroom on the #RaspberryPi with edX
Open-source online learning platform edX can now be run on the Raspberry Pi. Started by MIT & Harvard, the development team has released a new distro image that you can download and install on an SD card. It is at…
Easily connect sensors to your #RaspberryPi with GrovePi
Dexter Industries (who previously developed BrickPi, a LEGO-Mindstorms interface board) are bringing out GrovePi. GrovePi is an add-on board that plugs into the GPIO pins and allows you to use Grove Sensors from SeeedStudio. These are little modules with a…
Use Flask on the #RaspberryPi to make an internet-controlled lamp
Jack Minardi has hacked into a lamp remote control with his Pi and used the Flask Python framework to expose the control to the internet. Read more here
Installing Weewx on #RaspberryPi
Chris Davies-Barnard wanted to use his Raspberry Pi for reading data from a La Crosse Weather Station. To do this, he’s using the open source Python-based Weewx software. He’s blogged about how to install the software. Read it here.