Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can…
Category: Software
Firefox OS coming soon to the Raspberry Pi
A group of developers are currently working on porting Firefox OS to the Raspberry Pi as either downloadable software packages or a flashable image. You can already install a demo version of the OS to your Pi by following the…
Building an Amiga A1200 for $40 with Raspberry PI and UAE4All
Jon Aasenden took a disused Raspberry Pi, some battery packs and installed UAE4All to give him a portable Amiga. You can read how he did it here.
Stream video from your Raspberry Pi camera module
I know I’ve covered streaming before, but this is just a reminder to myself that the best method I’ve found is using Silvan Melchoir’s RaspiMJPEG which he has combined with a web interface (pictured). All the instructions are available on the Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR scanner
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves…
Raspberry Pi integrated with Capistrano and a traffic light
Randy Westergren uses Capistrano to deploy projects across multiple server environments. He wanted some way of visualising the deployment process and decided that the best way to go was to get hold of a full-size traffic light and use a…
Hands-on with the FUZE Raspberry Pi computer workstation
The FUZE has been out for a while now. It is an all-in-one workstation based around the Raspberry Pi and comes with an array of electronic components, a breadboard and a proprietary breakout board. The case is extremely solid and…
PiTFT tutorials updated with new Raspbian
Adafruit has updated the tutorials for their small screen, the PiTFT with the latest version of Raspbian (9/9/2014). I believe this means the image is now compatible with the B+, but don’t quote me on that. It should contain the driver…
Adafruit Raspberry Pi libraries for temperature sensors
Adafruit has now written guides for using three different types of temperature sensor: TMP006, MAX31855 and MCP9808. You can see the guides here.
Use Firmata to communicate with an Arduino from a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a great tutorial, and accompanying video (see below), from “Android Eric” in which he describes how to use the Firmata sketch on an Arduino and a python library on the Raspberry Pi.