Dylan Pierce has created a ‘magic mirror’ for his girlfriend. As well as showing a reflection, it also displays various widgets such as the time, weather etc. The whole thing is powered by a Raspberry Pi which is projected through ‘two…
Category: Software
Speak to your Raspberry Pi via an Ethernet cable
Scott Campbell has written a tutorial on connecting directly to a Raspberry Pi using an ethernet cable from a Windows machine. Read it here.
Program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
The Raspberry Pi Zero’s USB port is an OTG port, meaning that hardware-wise programming it over USB should be possible. Well, some clever people over on the Raspberry Pi forums have worked out how to get the software working. Andrew Mulholland…
New add-on for the RasPiO Duino launched for the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames did a Kickstarter a while ago for the RasPiO Duino, which is a GPIO add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that gives you an ATMega 328P-PU chip (which is the same as an Arduino Uno) as well as loads…
Use WICD to set-up wifi on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie Lite
Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that…
Raspbian Jessie updated to include Node-RED and other enhancements
Simon Long has continued his great work on the base operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The latest update includes the following: The Node-RED visual development environment is installed by default. Especially great news for those who are into the…
Run a Raspberry Pi headless from initial boot-up
David Maitland has worked out the series of commands and edits that you need to carry out in order to automatically make your Raspberry Pi headless and available on your network from first boot-up. It involves using a Linux computer to…
Lite version of Raspbian Jessie available from Raspberry Pi
In a surprise, though welcome, move, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has made available a slimmed-down version of the Raspbian operating system image. I haven’t tried it myself, but I imagine it does away with most, if not all, of the bundled…
Free 3D modelling app for the Raspberry Pi
3D Slash, based in France, has just released a free version of their 3D modelling app (also called 3D Slash) to download on their website. You need to register but once you have you have access to this point-and-click software…
Host a WordPress site on your Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice beginners’ tutorial that tells you how to install WordPress and MySQL to enable you to host a blog website on your Raspberry Pi. Read it here.