Project to create an irrigation control from a Pi that bypasses the irrigation depending on the weather. Project 2: Using your Raspberry Pi as a web-enabled irrigation bypass.
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Coffee Table #RaspberryPi
A cute little Instructable on creating an arcade cabinet table using a Pi, a couple of old-fashioned coin-up buttons and a coin-up joystick. Coffee Table Pi.
#RaspberryPi – Ultrasonic sensor
Raspberry Pi – Ultrasonic sensor – YouTube. Great tutorial on how to get the SR04 Ultrasonic distance sensor up-and-running on the Pi. This is what I’m using on the PiPodCorder and the tutorial uses some of the same code and…
Short intro to the #RaspberryPi – Model A
Raspberry Pi – Model A – YouTube. Just a quick post for a quick video showing a newly-arrived Model A.
#RaspberryPi & XBox ChatPad / @Raspberry_Pi
This fantastic project is to create an expansion board, on top of which sits an XBox ChatPad. The page includes details on how to do it including a detailed parts list. There’s a software driver to go along with it.…
nanpy – Use your Arduino with Python and the #RaspberryPi
The nanpy library allows Python programmers to communicate with an Arduino connected via a serial line connected to a host computer (in our case, a Raspberry Pi). It is similar to pyFirmata. The nanpy library is under development and has a…
Rip online radio station music using a #RaspberryPi
Not sure about the legality of this, so I’ll keep it brief. Here’s a tutorial on ripping music from online radio stations using the Linux software package ‘streamripper’. Everyday Linux User: Using your Raspberry PI to rip music from online…
Control Google Earth Flight simulator with #Arduino – maybe with #RaspberryPi?
Two Arduino posts in one morning, what is the world coming to? Here’s an Instructable where an Arduino and accelerometer sensor is used to control the Google Earth Flight Simulator on a Windows machine. I wonder if the same can…
Debrick your router using #Arduino – possibly with #RaspberryPi ?
Here’s a blog post that someone wrote after bricking (really, really messing up) their TP-Link WR740N router. They used an Arduino to communicate over serial pins to the router and then pushed a new firmware to it, thus saving the…
MySQL for Beginners on the #RaspberryPi
If you know nothing about databases, except that you know you want to use them, this video tutorial is for you. Richard Wenner has posted an excellent, very comprehensive tutorial on MySQL for the Raspberry Pi on YouTube. This 40-minute video covers…