Karl Herrick has taken a Gertboard and a 4.5v LEGO motor and linked them up to the Pi. He’s then looked at Alex Eames’ Python Gertboard suite and written some test scripts as a proof-of-concept. Read about how he did…
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Tweeting with the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has written his second post in a series he’s doing using Tweepy to send/receive tweets on a Pi. Read how to do it here
Complete #RaspberryPi course from Intertech
Training company Intertech has been very generous and published the complete set of course materials from their Complete Raspberry Pi Training class. Here are the segments: Set-up the Pi, install the operating system and get the training files onto the…
What is Node-Red? And how do you use it on the #RaspberryPi?
Adafruit has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the Node-Red visual development environment to work on the Raspberry Pi and given details on what you can use it for. Read it here
Vocal intruder alarm with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox over at Class Think has posted a tutorial showing you how to use a PIR sensor to detect movement and then play a sound. Take a look here
Great fun with potatoes – capacitive touch and the #RaspberryPi
Craig Argh has posted a great tutorial on using a capacitive touch sensor breakout board, 5 potatoes and the Pi. Sounds insane, but it’s a great way to learn about capacitance and how to use strange objects to control your…
Snowboarding with a #RaspberryPi GPS helmet camera
Martin O’Hanlon loves to snowboard and he’s figured out a way to record his travels using a helmet camera powered by a Raspberry Pi. Here he is in action: Read more about how he managed it over on his blog,…
Creating a photobooth with the #RaspberryPi camera and the Python API
Following on from Dave Jones’ excellent work on the Pi camera Python library, David Whale’s Raspberry Pi Saturday Club decided to use it to create a photobooth. They combined it with PyGame to do some text overlays and soon had…
Predict the Northern Lights using a #RaspberryPi
Here’s something for any Northerners out there. Very North! RiYa has written a script for his Pi that interprets data from NOAA to predict the appearance of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis). Read how he did it here
Pure Python library for the #RaspberryPi camera reaches maturity
Dave Jones has been working on picamera, a pure Python library to allow you to interface with your Raspberry Pi camera module. Ben Nuttall has posted over on the Raspberry Pi website that the library has continued to be developed…