In addition to Tuesday’s blog post about RPI_INFO, Alex has also discovered a new function call inside the RPi.GPIO Python library: getmode(). This is a companion to setmode() and reads back what mode the library is set to – BCM, BOARD or…
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Pi Piano HATs start to be delivered – a first look
Sandy Macdonald must have ordered a Pi Piano HAT from Pimoroni on virtually the day it was released and has now written up his thoughts about the board, stepping through the example programs and detailing a way to get the…
Windows 10 IoT released publicly for the Raspberry Pi
A Windows-based operating system for the Raspberry Pi is now available publicly following a few months of developer-only trials. Windows 10 IoT is available here and, unlike the last few months, does not require any sign-ups. Here’s what BetaNews said about the…
Create a Raspberry Pi iBeacon and iPhone app
Shea Silverman has blogged about creating a bluetooth iBeacon by using a Bluetooth dongle with a Raspberry Pi. He’s written comprehensive, though brief, instructions for setting up the iBeacon and then gone on to explain how to alter the downloadable software to…
Build a Raspberry Pi powered arcade console with an Arduino controller
Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form of an Arduino Esplora and configure your games accordingly. All the instructions for how…
Set up an nginx web server on the Raspberry Pi
Most of the time when you’re setting up a web server on the Pi, you’ll end up using Apache. However, sometimes you want a lighter-weight solution. This is where nginx comes in. Shane Pfaffly has written a tutorial on setting it…
Raspberry Pi robot kit GoPiGo gets a node.js library
Good news from Dexter Industries today. Together with ‘a few key contributors’ their GoPiGo robotics kit is now controllable via programming language node.js. If you have one of their kits, or you just want to look at how node.js can…
Run Spark and Groovy on a Raspberry Pi and generate simple web apps
Renato Athaydes has written a nice tutorial on installing Groovy and then Spark onto the Pi. He then goes through a simple tutorial that shows you how to build a simple web application using the framework. Between you and me, as a…
Reinvigorating a vintage radio with a Raspberry Pi
Gordon from IQAudIO has done a bang-up job at restoring his late grandmother’s vintage Roberts radio. He’s used one of IQAudIO’s own boards, the Pi-DigiAMP+ and a pair of small speakers to output music from a variety of online sources via Shairport Sync software…
Ipswich Makerspace open-sources their Raspberry Pi robot from Pi Wars
Keith Ellis and the guys over at Ipswich Makerspace did brilliantly well with their robot, TractorBot, at last year Pi Wars. They won Best Robot under £75 and placed very respectably in most of the challenges. (You can see the full…