Craig Richardson has been working on a book in which programming is taught using Python and then utilised in the visual environment of the Pi edition of Minecraft. This yet-to-be-finished book was featured on the Foundation website a couple of…
Category: Programming
#RaspberryPi photo ‘booth’ with the camera
Adam at Tinkurlab has created a portable photobooth (it’s not really a booth!) using a Raspberry Pi and a camera module. Take a look at his blog post here
How to build a #RaspberryPi room alarm
Over on the Make website, there’s a piece (that’s not quite a tutorial) about creating a room alarm system using a Raspberry Pi, a PIR motion sensor, a flashing blue light and a keypad to enter a code to disarm the…
This month’s Linux User & Developer is a #RaspberryPi extravaganza
Issue 129 of Linux User and Developer magazine is a great buy for Raspberry Pi owners. It features the following articles: A 22-page special covering 10 Raspberry Pi projects “made easy” including: Media centre Portable internet radio Torrent client Time-lapse…
Monitor the temperature of your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat little programming project. Fechu has written a set of scripts to allow you to monitor the operating temperature of your Pi and then see it, via a web browser in a fancy graph form. Pick up the scripts…
PyPy releases two new versions for #RaspberryPi
PyPy, the Python interpreter that’s gaining a lot of support due to it’s blessing from the Foundation, has just announced two releases: PyPy 2.1 (targeting version 2.7.3 of Python) is the first release for ARM processors in the JIT. PyPy3…
Using a #RaspberryPi to control USB traffic light
Marcel Birkner has written a tutorial about getting a USB traffic light working via the Pi. Read more here
Book reviews cover Scratch and Minecraft for the #RaspberryPi
Shea Silverman has written two summary book reports for “Super Scratch Programming Adventure” and “Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to”. Read the reviews
Game of Life programming tutorial for the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on creating Conway’s Game of Life using Python and Pygame. This is a great idea for schools as it teaches children programming in general, algorithms, a little graphics and has a good, visual result.…
Tweeting coffee machine using #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov wanted his Raspberry Pi to tweet whenever his coffee machine was ready to be used. So, he decided to use a light-dependent resistor to monitor the ‘ready’ LED on the coffee machine. It’s a bit low-tech in that…