Martin O’Hanlon has used the qrcode Python module and Minecraft Pi Edition together to create QR codes inside the Minecraft world. Take a look on his blog.
Category: Programming
Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game
Martin O’Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale’s GPIO Xmas Trees and programmed it as a reaction game. Here’s how the game plays out: The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player…
Glowing Twitter beacon uses the Raspberry Pi and Pibrella
Kate Mulcahy from The Royal Institution has developed a cool little beacon that lights up whenever the Twitter hashtag #XMASLECTURES is used. She’s done this to help someone at the Institution who has an obsession over checking the hashtag. All the…
Using the Raspberry Pi with Mathematica in schools
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it…
ScratchGPIO version 6 launched for the Raspberry Pi
Simon Walters has just announced the latest version of his ScratchGPIO software that runs on the Raspberry Pi and allows you to program the GPIO pins from within Scratch. According to his blog post, the following features have been introduced:…
Draw a snowflake with code on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a lovely tutorial using the Python Turtle library to draw snowflakes. It’s a great example of recursive programming and will certainly while away a couple of hours with the kids on a cold weekend…
Plot data from an Arduino on the Raspberry Pi with Python
Rick Sellens has posted up some simple code to plot data returned from an Arduino using Python and the pyplot library. I’ve asked him to also post up the code from the Arduino so we can see both sides of…
Push a button to take a picture and tweet it with the Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written an excellent tutorial in which he builds a simple circuit with a push button and a couple of LEDs to trigger the camera module to take a photograph. The photograph is then auto-uploaded to Twitter. Read more…
Create a digital compass with the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the BerryIMU. One of the three sensors on the board is a magnetometer, with which you can create a digital compass. Here’s how to do it in C.
Run ASP.NET on the Raspberry Pi with Mono and OWIN
Jan Tielens has written up his procedure for installing and using Mono on the Raspberry Pi, giving you a low-power ASP.NET platform. He uses Arch Linux as the operating system, so you may want to decide if it’s right for…