I’ve been playing around with some stepper motors with driver boards that I bought from eBay. They have a lot of potential and I’m planning to use them on an astronomy project… but more on that later. The motors were £1.66…
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Web Control of #RaspberryPi GPIO
Basic example of a web interface controlling the GPIO. Read the Instructable here. This isn’t as flashy as something like BerryIO but it gives you something basic to work from if you want to provide a web GUI.
#RaspberryPi snail mail monitor
This Instructable for a Raspberry Pi Snail Mail System was built by Paul Barber and his kids. It monitors a switch attached to a letterbox so that a Raspberry Pi knows when mail has been delivered. The Pi then triggers a webcam…
PiFinder portable #RaspberryPi project has unique screen / @Raspberry_Pi
Someone over at Overclocked.tv has created a lipo-battery driven portable Pi and used two great components for functionality: a keyboard from a Nexus 7 case and, most excitingly, a viewfinder from a Sony DXC-3000 camcorder. All this is packaged up…
Free #RaspberryPi infographic poster from Circuit Cellar / @Raspberry_Pi
Embedded electronics site Circuit Cellar have teamed up with RS and Elektor and created an excellent free Raspberry Pi poster PDF for download. This link takes you to their page and this link takes you directly to the download. Very nice poster…
BBC article talks about the #RaspberryPi and the rise of small computers
In this article, the BBC covers the world of miniature computing and the explosion, in recent months, of devices into the market. It’s a good article but they would have been better advised not to sidebar some uncharitable comments from an…
Great fun watching Dave Akerman’s PIE4 – #RaspberryPi high altitude balloon
Dave Akerman’s PIE4 landed at approximately 2pm having reached a maximum height of 35,409m (~116,000 feet). The TARDIS-encased Raspberry Pi hit the ground in a field just off the B3353 near Whitley, Wiltshire. More details will be posted on Dave’s blog…
New GPIO breakout with analog inputs from Nwazet for the #RaspberryPi
Fantastic new product from Nwazet. The ‘Key Lime Pi’ kit breaks out the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO connector, adds eight 10-bit analog inputs, converts the Pi’s serial interface into astandard FTDI connector and allows for external power headers to be added…
Percona SQL Server on the #RaspberryPi
Arch Linux users have the opportunity to install a MySQL drop-in replacement called Percona on their Raspberry Pi. Alledgedly, Percona is faster than MySQL Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Instructions I’m not terribly sure why you’d want to, but…
Element14 presents Foundation with HUGE #RaspberryPi Cake
I like cake. I like Raspberry Pi. This picture, of a massive cake that Element14 produced to present to Foundation member Pete Lomas, just makes me smile 🙂 And giggle a lot. Read all about it here