Eric Tsai has put together a combination of wireless, sensor-packed Arduinos with a Pi and come up with a quite neat home monitoring solution. He’s written it all up as an Instructable which you can view here. He’s called in…
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Send email from Python
Trevor Appleton has posted on his blog a way to send email from Python. This is a great way to send a notification when a certain event is triggered. Take a look here.
Push notifications to your phone with a Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for…
Use an XBox 360 wireless controller with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can…
Adventures in Minecraft – a new book for Raspberry Pi owners
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon have been busy writing a new book which uses Minecraft Pi Edition to teach Python programming. Written in the same format as Carrie Anne Philbin’s awesome book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, it covers everything from basic…
Driving in a straight line with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is currently building a robot and he wants it to autonomously drive in a straight line. This isn’t as easy as it sounds but he’s hit on a solution – use encoder discs on his motors and count…
Use an 8×2 LCD display with your Raspberry Pi
Richard (Average Man) has written a really nice tutorial about using a small 8×2 LCD display with the Pi, using his ProtoCam prototyping board. This is a really great use of the ProtoCam (which is now fully funded on Kickstarter) which…
October issue of the MagPi magazine out for Raspberry Pi owners
The MagPi have just published their October 2014 issue. This time, judging by the cover, there are articles on: Using game console controllers with the Pi Programming games using FUZE BASIC An article about Matboard A guide to using Git…
Kickstarter tracker on the Raspberry Pi (part 2)
Alex Eames is currently running a series on programming a Kickstarter tracker script on the Pi using Python. He’s just published part 2. Part 1 can be found here.
BBC Buggy controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Not loads of detail on this, but it looks fun. Steve Battle has taken an old BBC Buggy (from 1983!) and strapped a Raspberry Pi to it. He’s used two GPIO boards – the IO Pi from AB Electronics and…