Matt Reed is blessed with working in a pet-friendly office. However, it has been known for him to completely lose track of his dog, Bean, and so he set about working out a method for tracking him. To do it,…
Category: Programming
Christmas tree lights controlled with a Raspberry Pi
Last year, Anderson SIlva set his Christmas tree lights up to be controlled by a Raspberry Pi. This year, he’s expanded the amount of lights being controlled by the Pi to 800! You can see it working below and read…
GPIO Zero for the Raspberry Pi – by George, I think I’ve got it!
When Ben Nuttall announced his GPIO Zero Python library a few weeks ago, I was very sceptical. It seemed to me to be dumbing-down the flexibility of RPi.GPIO. I didn’t like it. The truth is, I’d got so comfortable (and, perhaps,…
Build your own scrolling LED wall with a Raspberry Pi & Cotswold Raspberry Jam this weekend
Andrew Oakley, from the Cotswold Raspberry Jam, has written an excellent tutorial in which he describes how to create a large, scrolling LED wall, controlled from a Raspberry Pi. He takes you through all aspects of the construction and powering…
Drive a 7-segment display from a Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames has written a great blog post in which he wires up and uses a 7-segment display using the Raspberry Pi. The display, which is of the common cathode type, has 4 digits and Alex shows you how to…
Create an aircraft RADAR with a Raspberry Pi and Pi Aware
Martin O’Hanlon has previously used Pi Aware to access publicly available data about aircraft positions. Now he has taken his work further by creating a RADAR system that displays aircraft positions relative to your GPS co-ordinates. It’s a great example of…
Create an interactive pet with the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT
Carrie Anne Philbin has been very busy recently with her Raspberry Pi Foundation duties. Now she’s back in her guise as the creator of the Geek Gurl Diaries videos! Her new video tutorial takes you through from connecting up the SenseHAT…
Cloud security camera using a Raspberry Pi
Tony Dicola over at Adafruit has published a tutorial which takes you through the steps needed to create a motion-sensor controlled security camera which uploads photographs to Dropbox so they can be viewed from anywhere in the world. They’ve even included…
Reading analog signals with the RasPiO Duino and the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames has now finished his series of videos about the RasPiO Duino, the great little add-on board for the Pi that gives you an ATMega chip, breakouts and a prototyping area. The last video is all about reading analog…
Emailing, tweeting, SMSing garage door with a Raspberry Pi
Bit of an old post, but it’s still a great project to do! Richard Lynch is a Boston, MA-based software engineer who loves the Raspberry Pi. He decided to use the Pi to monitor whether his garage door had opened.…