Phil Atkin, who has previously done a lot with integrating synthesizers with the Raspberry Pi, has now pulled off a bit of a coup. He has installed and run his software on a Raspberry Pi Zero. He has then sequenced…
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Improved hot tub controller run by a Raspberry Pi
Ted Hale has improved upon his Hot Tub Controller. The latest iteration is mounted directly next to the tub and does the following: Monitor the water temperature Turn a circulation pump and heater on to heat the water as needed…
Read analog sensors with the MCP3008 and GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames recently announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter – it includes an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip and an analog temperature sensor (TMP36). Alex has now written a tutorial to show you how to use the chip…
Build a Twitterbot with Python on your Raspberry Pi
Trevor Appleton has written a really good walk-through tutorial on using the Twitter API and the tweepy Python library to send tweets out from your Pi. Take a look here.
Use bar graph displays with the Raspberry Pi
Average Man has written a great tutorial on using these tiny bar graph displays with the Pi. There’s a lot of wiring involved, and a lot of maths, but he takes you through it. He’s also written some code to…
Control an X-wing in Minecraft using the Raspberry Pi and Skywriter HAT
Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the…
Building a massive cricket scoreboard on a shoestring budget with a Raspberry Pi
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed…
Live coding with Sonic Pi and Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
The MagPi have published a tutorial that Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, wrote about live coding with his software. This tutorial has a twist, however, as it integrates with Minecraft: Pi Edition and allows you to build in the 3D world…
Fading LEDs using PWM with GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
The project GPIO Zero, the new GPIO library from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is becoming my go-to method for doing simple things with the Pi’s GPIO pins. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been having fun preparing for the…
Four-track audio looper with a Raspberry Pi
Szymon Kaliski has put together a Raspberry Pi, some buttons and potentiometers and a lot of circuitry to build a four-track audio looper. You can record four eight-second loops and then adjust their playback with the buttons and potentiometers to achieve the…