Two kids from Westminster School in London have created a pollution monitoring system with a Raspberry Pi. It records temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels and monitors for various pollutants like carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. They have said that…
Category: Programming
Build a radio astronomy platform with a #RaspberryPi
Robert Arrowsmith is using a DVB-T dongle to create a radio astronomy platform. He’s currently got the dongle picking up FM radio traffic. Follow his project blog here
Reading Car Diagnostics with a #RaspberryPi and an OBD-II adapter
Martin O’Hanlon read about someone reading diagnostics from a motorbike and decided to adapt the work to read OBD-II information from his car. He found an adapter that converted the car port to USB and then created a Python script…
Voice recognition with the #RaspberryPi
I suppose you could call this SiriPi or RaspberrySiri. Oscar Liang has done an in-depth tutorial for getting voice recognition working on your Pi. Read the tutorial here
Reviving Teletext with a #RaspberryPi
Over at The New Tech, Moonlit has been working on reproducing the Teletext television text service. A lot of it is over my head, but it still makes for an interesting read. Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here
RaspDev – an Eclipse plugin for the #RaspberryPi
I’ve just found this for those who are familiar with the Eclipse IDE. It’s an SDK, framework and plugin for Eclipse for Python software development on the Raspberry Pi. Looks very interesting. Read more here
Issue 14 of The MagPi published for #RaspberryPi owners
The July 2013 issue of the much-improved Raspberry Pi magazine “The MagPi” is now out. Star-of-the-show is the camera module which is treated to an article by Broadcom’s James Hughes who wrote the software that drives the camera. There are…
#RaspberryPi Voice Command reaches version 3
Steve Hickson has been working, for a while now, on his voice control software. He has just released version 3 which includes a whole raft of amendments and enhancements. Read more here Comment: Yes, that is the naffest graphic I’ve ever…
I2C 20×4 LCD character display on a #RaspberryPi
Take a look at this more up-to-date post which uses a Python library to do the necessary. I bought this display from Hobby Components: It is very similar to the Sainsmart 2004 LCD display and the pin mappings are the…
Using the SL030 RFID Module with #RaspberryPi
Harlow-based Pi bits seller Sukkin Pang has created a tutorial that shows you how to use this RFID reader and accompanying cards and tags. Read more here