Over at TechRadar, the guys and girls from Linux Format have blogged about creating a burglar alarm for your home. The system uses a PIR sensor to detect movement and then takes a picture and a video then uses an…
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Create a banana beat box with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial at speakerdeck.com that tells you how to use the Pimoroni Explorer HAT…
How to build your own ‘future home’ model with the Raspberry Pi
Earlier this year, PubNub posted about their LEGO future home which had a variety of sensors, LEDs and motors attached. They have now started to write tutorials based around the project so that you can build your very own, using…
Create animations on the Unicorn HAT with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler previously wrote a small app to create animations for the Astro Pi Sense HAT. Following a question from his son, he has now re-factored the app so that you can create animations for the 8×8 Neopixel matrix on the…
Animate the LED matrix on the Astro Pi
Richard Hayler has been continuing his work with the Astro Pi. He’s now moved on from creating static images on the LED matrix to creating simple animations. These are created one frame at a time in a GUI that he’s…
Internet-of-Things temperature reading with the Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial on reading data from a waterproof 1-wire temperature sensor and then outputting it to screen. He has then expanded on this to push the data up to online service Firebase. Read the tutorial…
Raspberry Pi robot kit GoPiGo gets a node.js library
Good news from Dexter Industries today. Together with ‘a few key contributors’ their GoPiGo robotics kit is now controllable via programming language node.js. If you have one of their kits, or you just want to look at how node.js can…
Run Spark and Groovy on a Raspberry Pi and generate simple web apps
Renato Athaydes has written a nice tutorial on installing Groovy and then Spark onto the Pi. He then goes through a simple tutorial that shows you how to build a simple web application using the framework. Between you and me, as a…
Aurora Borealis alert! Raspberry Pi and NeoPixels work together
James Singleton from BlinkinLabs has written a nice script that accesses data from Lancaster University’s Aurora Watch and then, if an Aurora Borealis is happening, displays an Aurora-like light show on a BlinkyTape, which is a strip of NeoPixels with a USB…
16×2 LCD game written in Python on the Raspberry Pi
Prashant Mohta is making a Python game based around a 16×2 LCD screen. To do this, he’s using a simulated LCD on the desktop and then he’ll add in the real thing later. He’s currently on part 3 and it’s well…