They produce a lot of good material over at Penguin Tutor and it’s well worth keeping an eye out for new stuff. This tutorial is a bit of fun – they’ve taken a reindeer head decoration from HobbyCraft and outfitted…
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Access GPIO on the #RaspberryPi with Ruby
No doubt others have found this before but I don’t think I’ve seen it done as neatly as this. Using bindings for WiringPi, it’s possible to control the Pi’s GPIO pins through Ruby. Blogger “Mika” has worked out how to…
Control my #RaspberryPi PiRingo Christmas decoration over the internet
Carrying on from my previous post, you can now contribute to the general festive feeling in my house by controlling my PiRingo Christmas decoration. If you go to: http://109.151.115.130:8081/index.html you should get an interface to fire off various effects. Please comment on…
Play, Hack & Share method for teaching programming
Alan O’Donohoe (@teknoteacher) has written a blog post in which he shares one of his favourite methods for teaching programming. Called “Play, Hack & Share”, the method works best with pairs of young programmers (Navigator & Driver) who look at…
CamJam round-up has some great pics #RaspberryPi #CamJam #rjam
Darren Christie, who came to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on 7th December as one of our fantastic Jam Makers, has written a great blog post with equally great photographs from his time at the event. With permission, I’ve snaffled some…
#RaspberryPi add-on board Gertduino review from Linux User & Developer magazine
Linux User & Developer magazine writer Gareth Halfacree has written a review for the new Gertduino board which has now been published on the magazine’s website. Although praising the board for features and the pure fact that it sits nicely on…
Your #RaspberryPi can read e-books to you with BrickPi
The folks over at Dexter Industries, creators of the BrickPi, have been busy at work creating a way for your Pi to read books to you. BrickPi is an add-on board which allows your Pi to communicate with LEGO Mindstorms…
Redundant shared file system across multiple #RaspberryPi servers
Kyle Rankin has written a piece for Linux Journal in which he creates a shared file system with redundancy across two Pis using GlusterFS. He’s detailed the procedure extensively and it’s well worth a look if you want to create…
Internet-controlled #RaspberryPi Christmas decoration using PiRingo @4tronix_uk
Introduction The PiRingo is a lovely little board from 4tronix. It has a ring of 12 LEDs and two switches and is plugged directly into the GPIO socket of the Pi. It comes in 5 different flavours (which are basically…
#RaspberryPi enabled Christmas Lights
Shabaz over on the Element14 community has created a very complex project which allows his Pi to control his Christmas lights. This required a fair bit of electronics knowledge to accomplish. Read more at Element14