Messaging queues are all the rage nowadays, what with being the backbone for a lot of Internet of Things projects and concepts. In his blog post, Brian Hines explains how to use a library he wrote called pi-control-service together with RabbitMQ to…
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Windows 10 IoT preview for Raspberry Pi 2 released
When the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched, there was much hoo-hah about it being able to run Windows 10, and that it would be free. After much speculation, discussion, deliberation and outright mis-information, we eventually found out that the Pi…
Monitor pot-holes with a Raspberry Pi
George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles…
Custom-built word processing box powered by Raspberry Pi
Portland-based Giando Sigurani has created a portable word processing system from a Raspberry Pi 2 and a few other bits including a full-size keyboard and track pad, SD card reader and exposed USB port. The whole thing has been built…
Install Lazarus Pascal on a Raspberry Pi
Lazarus Pascal is a free Delphi look-a-like and compatible Pascal development environment based on FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). Hans Luijten from Tweaking4All.com has written a comprehensive tutorial on installing Lazarus on the Pi 2. He also includes instructions for installing it on other Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi “action camera” inside a 3D case
Connor Yamada has done a nice write-up of his project to create an ‘action camera’ with his Raspberry Pi and Camera Module. The results are mixed, to say the least, but it does show what is possible with a bit…
Learn about Big Data with Hadoop on the Raspberry Pi
Carsten Mönning over at the SAP Community Network has written the start of an intriguing series of blog posts on creating a Hadoop cluster with several Raspberry Pi 2s. This initial post just covers setting up Hadoop on a single…
Driving NeoPixels from Docker on the Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Hypriot have been using Docker a lot. In this instance, they use Node.JS to drive a set of NeoPixels from the Pi. In the example, they use the Pi’s 5V power supply to provide the power…
Use an external drive to drive your Raspberry Pi
Over at Adafruit, Brennen Bearnes has written a great tutorial and helper script that will enable you to use an external drive as a “root partition”. This means that although your Pi still boots from the SD card, thereafter everything else…
Big Data on the Raspberry Pi 2
Newcastle-based Darren has written a tutorial that covers installing Apache Spark on the Raspberry Pi. Spark is a Scala library that is used for the analysis of so-called “big data”. This is the first in a series of posts and…