Here’s a cool project (cough cough). Ignacio Abel has created a prototype night-time house cooling automation project with a Raspberry Pi and some bits and pieces of tech from Ciseco. He goes into a lot of detail about how to…
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Interfacing a 16×2 LCD with the #RaspberryPi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial using C and WiringPi that shows you how to connect up a 16×2 LCD screen to the Pi. It’s a great from-first-principles blog post. Read it here
How To Setup Minecraft On The #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has decided to give Minecraft on the Pi a go. You can follow his installation procedure here on the blog.
50 Free eBooks On Python – useful for #RaspberryPi owners & Linux users alike
EFYTimes.com has brought together a list of 50 Free eBooks on the subject of Python.
#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller
Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action. Here’s what he says about it: We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program.…
Pi-Lite ‘Hello World’ example for #RaspberryPi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has written some Python code to generate a Hello World example on Ciseco’s Pi-Lite. Read how he did it here
Community mashup time! #RaspberryPi Minecraft, Ordnance Survey and Rastrack come together
Following a suggestion from and Twitter conversation with David Whale (@whaleygeek), Martin O’Hanlon (Minecraft Pi guru) has mashed together some recently released Ordnance Survey data, the map-of-Pis data from Rastrack and some Minecraft know-how. He’s created a map of the…
Use Java on the #RaspberryPi to control the GPIO
Robert Savage has been developing Pi4J, a Java library for the Raspberry Pi that lets you control the GPIO pins. He recently gave a presentation on using the library to the JavaOne conference. His slides and photos, and a little…
Adding a Startup Movie to your #RaspberryPi
Shea Silverman has been trying to add a custom splash screen or movie to his Pi start-up routine. He’s finally managed it and has posted the code on his blog. Read about it here
Make your #RaspberryPi tweet its temperature
The “Average Man” has blogged about using the IfThisThenThat service to receive email from his Raspberry Pi and convert that into a tweet. The email contains the temperature of his Raspberry Pi! He concedes that this isn’t the most direct…