Last week, the BBC changed the way that iPlayer exposes it’s programme listings to the web. This prevented a lot of third-party software from working including the popular get_iplayer. A fix has now been issued and Alex Eames has documented…
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Home monitoring with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Eric Tsai has put together a combination of wireless, sensor-packed Arduinos with a Pi and come up with a quite neat home monitoring solution. He’s written it all up as an Instructable which you can view here. He’s called in…
Send security camera photos from the Raspberry Pi via MMS
Mike Haldas has written a great, comprehensive tutorial about using the Pi and online service Twilio to take photos using the Pi camera and send them to a recipient via MMS message. Take a look here.
Send email from Python
Trevor Appleton has posted on his blog a way to send email from Python. This is a great way to send a notification when a certain event is triggered. Take a look here.
Time-lapse stargazing with the Raspberry Pi
Now this is something I’ve been wanting to try myself for ages. Jippo has created some software which captures images from the Raspberry Pi camera module in a time-lapse to enable you to get great night-time pictures of moving objects such…
Monitor your home network usage from a Raspberry Pi
Rotem Tamir has blogged about a way to use your Pi, Firebase, AngularJS and some Python to monitor your home wifi network. It’s a full tutorial and should take about an hour for you to replicate it. Read the tutorial here.
Firefox OS for the Raspberry Pi gains momentum
Thanks to The Register for the meat of this one, and to Tim Richardson who spotted it! During a Mozilla Festival held over this last weekend, developers showed more of the Firefox OS port for the Pi. They also listed…
Real-time aircraft tracking with a Raspberry Pi
Pat Whens has posted a tutorial in which you can track aircraft in real-time from your Raspberry Pi using a $10 Software Defined Radio (SDR) dongle. It also uses flightaware.com’s API. You can read more about how to do it…
Wearable wrist radio with the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice project. A wearable Raspberry Pi powered by a LIPO running pifm and a Python script to play music. Not much detail on the page itself about the build, but he does list the components so you should…
Push notifications to your phone with a Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for…