This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an…
Category: Programming
Raspberry Pi Sense HAT game – Sense Cave
Albert Hickey (@winkleink) got a Sense HAT for Christmas and wanted to create a game using it. What he came up with is Sense Cave. Sense Cave is a maze with 64 rooms (8×8) containing emeralds. Some of the exits/entrances…
Self-driving remote control model car uses Raspberry Pi as brain
Zheng Wang has taken a model Range Rover and slapped a Raspberry Pi and camera module on top, along with a portable power supply. His aims were to build a system that would self-drive along a track detect stop signs and traffic…
Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock with the SenseHAT on the Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred has done a lovely implementation of the classic game Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock using the SenseHAT. The program is written in Python and is available on Github and you can see a video of it in action below:
Shutdown your Raspberry Pi using a paper clip
When you’re running your Raspberry Pi headless, one of the first things you should concern yourself with is how to shut it down safely. Shutting it down by simply pulling the power out can result in a corrupt SD card or…
Auto-run a script on start-up/boot on a Raspberry Pi using systemd
Big thanks to Matt Hawkins for this one – I needed to use it this morning! Matt Hawkins has documented the new way of getting boot-time scripts to run. On the Jessie version of Raspbian, instead of using /etc/rc.local like…
Word clock with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Nice to see projects being built with the Zero now. David Saul set himself a project over Christmas: a ‘word clock’. For this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero and a MAX7219 chip. A ‘word clock’ is a clock made up…
Paint your SenseHAT with this script
Giles Booth has written a small app using PyGame that allows you to ‘paint’ a virtual grid on screen and then have the same picture re-produced on the SenseHAT’s 8×8 matrix. Read how he did it and get the script…
A Raspberry Pi Christmas tree on a lubricating tram
Jiří Zemánek and Martin Gurtner were asked by journalists from technological on-line magazine Technet to place a remote-controlled Christmas tree on-board a tram that lubricates the tracks around Prague. To control the lights, they used a Raspberry Pi to run a string of addressable WS2811 LEDs.…
Program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
The Raspberry Pi Zero’s USB port is an OTG port, meaning that hardware-wise programming it over USB should be possible. Well, some clever people over on the Raspberry Pi forums have worked out how to get the software working. Andrew Mulholland…