Dylan Schuster over at losant.com has taken two Raspberry Pi 3s and hooked them up to two custom turn-key-and-button boxes. He’s then used Losant’s new MQTT and REST clients to make them Internet of Things devices. By sending messages from the…
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Share your computing power with BOINC on the Raspberry Pi
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (or BOINC) is a way for you to get involved on global research projects. You install a client and then the slack time of your particular machine is used in the networked task of…
Wake up to Spotify with your Raspberry Pi
George Cushen has written a rather good tutorial on creating an alarm clock using a Spotify playlist. It works on the Raspberry Pi (though any Linux-based computer running something like Ubuntu will also suffice) and involves installing several different packages…
Raspbian operating system for Raspberry Pi receives another update
Simon Long has just posted on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about the latest update to the Raspbian operating system. The main changes are as follows: A new taskbar icon and user interface for connecting Bluetooth devices. Support from Bluetooth…
Google Cardboard used as a VR viewer to this dual Raspberry Pi tank
Freddy Kilo has built himself a tracked robot onto which he has mounted two Raspberry Pis. Each Pi is equipped with a camera module which are mounted side-by-side at the front of the vehicle. The video output is streamed via U4VL.…
Random Simpsons episode from a Raspberry Pi Zero
Some things just need to be made. This is obviously what Stephen Coyle must have thought when he created this simple Simpsons episode shuffler with a Raspberry Pi Zero. When you press the yellow (naturally) button on top, the Pi…
Write Raspberry Pi SD cards from your Android mobile phone
Mike Redrobe has written an interesting Android app. It allows you to write Pi SD cards from your mobile phone. It’s called Raspi Imager and is available from the Google Play Store. For now, it installs NOOBS and NOOBS Lite…
Using your Raspberry Pi Zero on your laptop to play Minecraft
Albert Hickey has written a fantastic tutorial over on his WinkleInk blog. He has used a preview version of RealVNC which allows you to view and play Minecraft Pi Edition on a normal PC, in Albert’s case, a laptop. Up to now,…
Play classic DOS games on the Raspberry Pi
Gus wanted to play some retro DOS games, so he set about seeing if he could do it on his Raspberry Pi. He’s managed it by using a piece of software called DOSbox and has written up full instructions on…
Create a Raspberry Pi access point with PaPiRus and Pi PoE
Francesco Vannini recently had an article published in The MagPi about creating an access point using a Pi and two add-on boards: PaPiRus and Pi PoE from Pi Supply. He’s now blogged the full instructions of the project and you can read them…