A team from Isobar, representing Coca-Cola Sweden, have hit on a cool idea to get people to experiment with Swedish dialects and it uses a Raspberry Pi. The Dialekt-o-maten is situated on a busy high street in Stockholm and challenges visitors…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has written this great tutorial to get your started with the NGINX web server. He goes through all the commands you’ll need to install it and everything you need to know to get the PHP language…
Matt Brailsford (aka Circuitbeard) has taken an old motorised game, the Tomy Turnin’ Turbo Dashboard, embedded a Raspberry Pi inside and turned it into a fully-working Out Run games console. Here’s an excerpt from his blog post in which he describes…
James was trying to allocate a static IP address to his Pi. He did what he’d always done and allocated the static address to eth0 but was then bewildered as to why it wasn’t working. He discovered that the naming…
Tinkernut has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, added an 2.8″ Adafruit mini-touchscreen and a mini USB microphone and created a YouTube-streaming box. He’s programmed a touchscreen interface to allow him to preview the video and then added another…
Ville Salminen has written a nice tutorial over on his blog in which he takes a Raspberry Pi, adds a SenseHAT and then programs it to access the SenseHAT sensors to create a mini-weather station. He uses Flask to create…
The folks over at Raspberry Pi have announced the immediate release of a new version of Raspbian, based on the Debian Stretch OS. There are various small software changes as well as the big update to the underlying operating system.…
Gus has written up a way to make a Raspberry Pi act as an AirPlay receiver. He uses a piece of open source software called Shairport Sync to do it. As he comments, it’s a quick-and-cheap way of getting some speakers wirelessly…
Giles Booth likes to try out new hardware by seeing if it can be made into a music player. This time, he’s used a micro:bit to control a Raspberry Pi’s music playing capabilities. By pressing A and B, he can…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has used a Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone to create his very own Amazon Alexa clone. He goes through installation of the software, connecting it up to your Amazon account and starting the program up…
