Joey Bernard over at Linux User magazine has done a nice piece on the GPIO, explaining how it works and how to use Python to interact with it. Read it here
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Program Conway’s Game of Life in Python on the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton’s written a great tutorial on creating the famous Conway’s Game of Life on the Pi. I won’t go into the technicalities of it, apart from to say it uses Pygame, but this is a great exercise to do…
A tweet-controlled RGB LCD display on the #RaspberryPi
Jeremy Blythe has done a comprehensive tutorial over on tuts+ in which he controls an Adafruit RGB LCD screen from the Pi and displays different tweets in different colours depending on content. Read it here
Simple PHP-driven #RaspberryPi photo gallery
Matt Hawkins has written a tutorial based on Kenny Svalgaard’s Single File PHP Gallery script. You run a web server and PHP and then put the script into a folder containing your images. All you have to do is have…
Learn to code with Sonic Pi and the #RaspberryPi
Over at Linux User & Developer, Rob Zwetsloot has written a mini-tutorial for Sonic Pi. It deals with making sure you have the software installed and then helps you to write a “mini concert” in the language. Read it here.
3D turtle graphics with Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon’s been busy again. He’s created a new library for Minecraft Pi Edition that allows you to create a ‘turtle’ that will draw blocks on the screen. Of course, this means it’s in 3D, giving an entire new dimension…
Control LEDs with ScratchGPIO on the #RaspberryPi
Over at ScratchMyPi.co.uk, they’re starting a series on using Simon Walters’ ScratchGPIO to control various things connected to the GPIO pins. They’ve started simple – lighting up a few LEDs. If you’ve ever wanted to get into using the GPIO…
BlueJ – a Java IDE on the #RaspberryPi
BlueJ is a free Java Development Environment designed for beginners and the developers have now got it running on a Pi. They’ve stripped back some of the visual features and bells and whistles so that it (in their words) “runs…
LMC – The Little Man Computer on the #RaspberryPi
Gordon Henderson (@drogon) has been busy creating an instructional model of a computer, known as LMC, using his Return to BASIC on the Pi. I can’t begin to understand the technicalities of it at the moment, but here’s what he…
Setting Up LIRC on the #RaspberryPi
Alex Bain has written a great tutorial, and also some supplementary articles, on using an infrared controller with the Raspberry Pi. It uses LIRC and includes examples on how to do the configuration and read the commands sent from the controller.…