Richard “Average Man” Saville has built on Spencer Organ’s work on his PiTFT Internet Radio to create a “social network monitor”. He uses web-page scraping to get the data he needs (such as number of followers on Twitter, number of ‘likes’ on…
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Create a realtime security camera with a Raspberry Pi and Parse
Justin Platz and Kevin Gleason from PubNub have published a tutorial that uses the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures and then upload them to online service Parse. The program hooks into a PIR sensor to detect movement then…
Build a 7-node Raspberry Pi Hadoop cluster
Hadoop is all about processing large amounts of data (so-called Big Data) across a cluster of nodes. In this case, the nodes are Raspberry Pis and Nigel Pond has written a PDF tutorial on how to do it. Read it…
Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi made easy with Minera
Kurt Roesener has written a tutorial which gets you up-and-running doing Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi. He uses a Linux distribution called Minera and takes you through downloading, installing and then using the image. Well worth a look if…
Space-age information distribution with Outernet and the Raspberry Pi
Outernet is an interesting service that broadcasts a large amount of internet-mined content via an orbiting satellite. Anyone can receive it, providing they have the appropriate equipment, on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s some info on the information that is being broadcast…
Create a Raspberry Pi wi-fi hotspot with the Edimax EW-7811Un dongle
Many people have these lovely little dongles from Edimax. They’re cheap, tiny and work very well with the Raspberry Pi. Dave Conroy has written up a method to turn your Pi into a wi-fi hotspot using one of these dongles…
Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner
Mario Lukas’ girlfriend is an archaeologist. Part of her job is to catalogue relics from digs and Mario deduced that what she could do with is a handheld, portable 3D scanner. So, he decided to build one using a Raspberry…
Sort-of boot the Raspberry Pi from a USB flash drive
Here’s an Instructable from “techno guy” with a misleading title. It teaches you how to set-up the Pi to start up from a USB drive which contains the main operating system image. Granted, you’ll still need the SD card in the…
Disable wi-fi power saving on the Raspberry Pi
Occasionally when using a wi-fi dongle on the Pi, you may find that you lose connection when you’re not actively using the keyboard. This is because the dongle goes into ‘power saving’ mode and disconnects. This is obviously undesirable. Matt over…
Control a Sphero robot from the Raspberry Pi with Astro Pi
Another one from Richard Hayler. This time, he’s using Python on the Raspberry Pi to detect changes in the Astro Pi’s accelerometer and then translate that into commands he sends over bluetooth to a Sphero. The Sphero is a cute little…