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Cheap wireless communication between a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Conor O’Neill has worked out how to get the Arduino and the Pi communicating wirelessly using some cheap nRF24L01+ modules. These things cost all of 1.26 Euros and seem like a great addition to your electronics kit. Read more here
Karaoke machine with a #RaspberryPi and USB microphone
Over at Pi Fun, Dextrus has written a tutorial on creating a karaoke machine with the Pi. You just need a USB microphone and he recommends running it headless using a wifi dongle. Here it is in action: Read more…
#RaspberryPi moisture sensor tutorial
Jeremy Blythe has written an excellent, in-depth tutorial to help you read moisture levels using an analog sensor. Particularly of interest to me is the wiring up of a MCP3008 analog-to-digital converter. It will come in most useful when I…
Public transport tracking with a dot-matrix wall board and a #RaspberryPi
Pavel Shved had a problem. He was always late for the bus. So, he found one of those dot-matrix wall-boards… wired it up to a Raspberry Pi, wrote some code to grab and display information from the internet about bus…
Fixing Errors While Upgrading #RaspberryPi
Over at CodingEpiphany.com, they’ve written a blog post about correcting errors from apt-get update/upgrade. Take a look if you’ve ever had problems. Read the article
RasPi.tv shows how to use the PiGlow for #RaspberryPi with GPIO control
The PiGlow is a lovely little GPIO board from Pimoroni which features three arms of ultra-bright LEDs. Alex over at RasPi.tv has put it together with his own circuit board and, in his new video, shows us how to control…
#RaspberryPi timelapse camera inside a coffee tin
Using the Pi, the camera module and an Illy coffee tin, Jim at Fotosyn has created a simple timelapse camera. He used an AA battery converter/holder for power, but any USB power unit will do. Nice little project. If you’re…
Every #RaspberryPi owner loves relays
MAKE is currently running a “Component of the Month” series on it’s website. This month, they are covering relays. What can you do with a relay? Well, you can switch a large current on with a small current. So you…
Cambridge Consultants & ZSL – saving the rhino with the #RaspberryPi
Cambridge News have done a nice piece on this ecology project from the Zoological Society of London. They have partnered up with Cambridge Consultants (who recently hosted our second Cambridge Raspberry Jam to great success) to create remote cameras which…