James Nebeker and David G. Young over at Radius Networks have developed a way to use a Pi and a Bluetooth LE dongle to create a bluetooth beacon similar to Apple’s iBeacon. If you don’t know what an iBeacon is (I didn’t!)…
Category: Programming
What Everyone Needs: a #RaspberryPi internet-controlled Whoopee Cushion
Over on Element 14’s Pi community, a user called “oneleggedredcow” has written scripts and a how-to-do-it tutorial for creating an internet-controlled fart cushion. Read how to do this ridiculous thing 🙂
Python library for the #RaspberryPi camera module in the works
Dave Hughes has been working on a Python package that will enable you to natively communicate with the camera module. I’ve not tried this out, and it seems to be at a very early stage, but this is great news…
Light up your room with a PiGlow and a #RaspberryPi
Phil Howard (Gadgetoid) has written some code that presents a colour wheel on any device to control a Pi fitted with a PiGlow. He’s housed the whole thing in an IKEA lamp hood. His code is available on his blog…
Cross-compiling Qt Apps for #RaspberryPi with Visual Studio
This is a bit of fringe interest so I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s for you or not! Tutorial: Cross-compiling Qt Apps for Raspberry Pi with Visual Studio.
More programming examples for the Pi Lite and #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, aka Raspberry Pi Spy, has been playing with the Pi-Lite and has written a tutorial on displaying custom sprites and animating them. All his code is available online including a little sprite editor that gives you the string…
RasPi.TV uses Sonic Pi to create Flight of the Bumblebee on a #RaspberryPi
Alex has been having fun with Carrie-Anne Philbin’s Sonic Pi tutorials and has recreated the classic Flight of the Bumblebee using his Pi. Read all about it and listen here
Create a Sudoku Solver using a #RaspberryPi, Python and Pygame
Trevor Appleton has written an extensive post (and I mean extensive) about this programming problem. Very well worth reading if you’re a newcomer to Python, Pygame and Tkinter (for creating GUIs). Read the tutorial here
Using the BerryClip with Scratch and the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins’ great little expansion board the BerryClip is controllable via Scratch. Graham Taylor from the “Raspberry Pi School” has written a tutorial about this and posted it on his blog. Read about it here
Minecraft #RaspberryPi Edition – Java API
Carl Hughes has been building on work done by Daniel Frisk and Martin O’Hanlon to do with using Java to interface with Minecraft Read all about it here