Stephen Wolfram and his team have been working on the Wolfram Language for 30 years and it is almost finished. Wolfram is designed to be a “totally symbolic, heavily natural, intensely knowledge-based, and extremely large computer programming language” although no-one…
Category: Programming
New series on Python and the GPIO from #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Matt Manning is busy writing a series on using the GPIO pins from Python. This exciting series will use a variety of different components wired up on a breadboard to do projects including the following: Turning on LEDs Blinking LEDs…
Control a BerryClip add-on board on your #RaspberryPi using Node.js
This one’s a quickie. Carl Hughes has taken Matt Hawkin’s BerryClip board and worked out how to control it from Node.js. Read how here
Overlay text and graphics on a #RaspberryPi PiCam photo and tweet it!
Alex Eames, at RasPi.TV, has been very busy recently posting a series of blog posts about using Tweepy on the Pi to send tweets. He has previously covered tweeting an image from a PiCam and now he’s moved on to…
Connecting an Arduino to the #RaspberryPi using I2C
There are several ways to connect an Arduino to a Pi. The simplest way is to just plug it into one of the USB sockets on the Pi. Peter Mount, however, needed to do things differently as he was already…
Use an analog thumbstick with your #RaspberryPi
Carl Hughes has taken an analog thumbstick and combined it with an MCP3008 digital-to-analog converter and used PyGame to communicate with it. Nice little project to control your favourite game! Read more here
Send SMS messages from the #RaspberryPi
Damien Greathouse has written a tutorial on using the Google Voice API to send SMS messages via the Pi. Read more here
Develop Java Apps using the #RaspberryPi – new MOOC from Oracle
A new Massive Open Online Course has been released by Oracle, and it’s FREE. In this course, you will write Java Embedded applications that: Read input data from switches and drive LED’s using the GPIO interface Read temperature and barometric…
#RaspberryPi powered Joke Machine
Tim Massaro has written an Instructable to create a Pi Joke Machine. He’s used a PiFace Control and Display (which is an LCD screen with added buttons) and wrapped it all up in a project box. Read how to do…
PWM dimming of an LED on the #RaspberryPi
A father-and-daughter team wants to control servo motors using PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) on the Raspberry Pi. As a demonstration of how possible this is, they’ve started out by using PWM with an LED to fade it up and down.…