Martin has blogged about using the Ciseco PiLite and getting it to display useful information such as the current time and weather as well as some Christmas messages. He’s made the code available online. Read more here or watch his video below:
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Analog sensors without analog inputs on the #RaspberryPi
Electronics guru Simon Monk has posted on his blog about using some analog inputs, such as a potentiometer, with the Pi without needing to add an A2D chip. He’s done this by using a couple of resistors and a capacitor…
Merry Christmas to the #RaspberryPi community!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful time unwrapping presents and eating a great deal of food! I really hope that you’ve got some electronics goodies and, especially, a Raspberry Pi in your stocking! To those of you who read…
New accelerated web browser in beta for the #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Collabora have released a new version of “Web”, an HTML5-enabled web browser. Previously called Epiphany, the “Web” web browser aims to support: A good multi-tab experience ARMv6-optimized 2d rendering Accelerated image and HTML5 video decoding…
Stream from your #RaspberryPi camera module using mjpg_streamer
After many hours trying to get streaming working with the PiCam, I found this solution on Miguel Grinberg’s blog. It uses mjpg_streamer to stream stills from the camera. You basically set up your camera to write single pictures to /tmp…
rpi-update and apt-get update/upgrade on the #RaspberryPi explained
I’m just sitting here running updates on my Pi in an effort to get camera streaming working and I thought it would help to give an explanation of the various updates you might want to run. I found a rather…
Report from the #RaspberryPi Bake Off – 12th December 2013
Dorothy Molloy of Climbing Turn has blogged about her involvement as an Ambassador at the recent Raspberry Pi Bake Off held at North Herts College. She describes the number of kids they had involved and the tasks they carried out.…
New book – #RaspberryPi for Secret Agents
Stefan Sjogelid has written a new Pi book. Now, I haven’t seen the book apart from the listing on the Wiley site, but just the title alone was so cool I had to feature it on the blog! You can…
Water your plants with a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Chris Hannam has blogged about a project he’s developed to monitor the environment around his plants. He’s used a RaspberryPi and an Arduino to do it and if you’re interested you can read about it on his blog.
Linux User & Developer do another #RaspberryPi special @LinuxUserMag
The UK’s Linux User & Developer magazine (@LinuxUserMag) has once again come up trumps for Pi owners. This month they feature 10 projects for the Pi. I can’t list them here because I don’t yet have my copy (and I’m…