Hussam Al-Hertani has blogged a C++ class he’s written to access pin 18 on the Raspberry Pi. This is the only hardware PWM pin on the Pi. Read about it here.
Category: Programming
Build an action camera with a #RaspberryPi and Java
Franco Raimondi wanted to explore the possibilities of the Pi’s GPIO pins through Java. To make it a more ‘fun’ project, he decided to build a GoPro-alike action camera that he could attach to his cycle helmet. He uses the…
Write C# programs on a #RaspberryPi
Gary Sims over at MakeTechEasier has written a brief tutorial about installing ‘mono’ and programming in C# on the Pi and compiling programs so that they can be used on both the Pi and on Windows. He also covers installing the…
Weather station with the #PiTFT
Jamie Jackson has written some code that uses the weather.com API to pull a weather forecast into his Pi. He then displays it on his PiTFT using some icons he downloaded. It’s a neat little set-up that is well worth a…
Tetris Duel – bare metal multiplayer Tetris for #RaspberryPi
Han Qiao, Piotr Chabierski, Michał Sienkiewicz & Utsav Tiwary from Imperial College London have written a multiplayer Tetris game for the Pi using bare metal assembly code. You can see a demo video above and access the code on GitHub here.
Get your #RaspberryPi to speak it’s IP address
Over at Interlock Rochester, someone has posted up a quick tutorial to get your Raspberry Pi to speak it’s IP address on start-up. You can read more here.
Bare Metal Assembly programming on the #RaspberryPi produces a classic game remake
Team 28 from Imperial College London have released the code for their bare-metal implementation of classic game Star Fox. You can get the code here and view a video of the game below:
Display TrueType fonts on your #RaspberryPi PiTFT screen
Here’s a quick tutorial and code snippet for you. It uses Python to list the TrueType fonts on your Pi and display them on a PiTFT screen. Read how to do it here.
Get notifications from your #RaspberryPi when new email arrives
Instructables employee Aleator777 has written an in-depth guide to creating an email notifier with a Pi. It checks a Gmail account and then lights up if there is new email. It’s quite a complicated tutorial and even uses laser-cut wooden…
OpenEuphoria on the #RaspberryPi
USA-based Russell Davies needed to learn a computer language a while ago, having not programmed for years. He settled on Euphoria. This has since been open-sourced as OpenEuphoria and Russell has now brought it to the Raspberry Pi. You can download the…