Here’s a neat little programming project. Fechu has written a set of scripts to allow you to monitor the operating temperature of your Pi and then see it, via a web browser in a fancy graph form. Pick up the scripts…
Category: Software
Motion-detecting security camera tutorial for #RaspberryPi
Foundation forum member nazargren has written a step-by-step tutorial for creating a Raspberry Pi security camera with the cameram module and using the mmalcam modification of motion. Really worth checking this out if you want to do something similar. And no,…
PyPy releases two new versions for #RaspberryPi
PyPy, the Python interpreter that’s gaining a lot of support due to it’s blessing from the Foundation, has just announced two releases: PyPy 2.1 (targeting version 2.7.3 of Python) is the first release for ARM processors in the JIT. PyPy3…
Using the MCP23017 port expander with WiringPi2 on the #RaspberryPi (continued)
Alex is continuing his series on using the MCP23017 port expander to give you lots of lovely extra GPIO ports. Read the third part here or read the first two parts here.
Automatic reboots for unresponsive #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov has been looking at something called ‘watchdog’ which is a service that restarts itself regularly. If it fails (because the Pi has hung) then it restarts the Pi. Read how to install it here.
The GWR Locomotive Sketchpad for the #RaspberryPi
Lovely story on the Foundation site today, and of particular interest to me. My wife and I love to ride steam locomotives and her grandfather actually drove the legendary City of Truro. (She rode the footplate of the same engine…
Backup solution using the #RaspberryPi and BitTorrent Sync
Frank at Raspberry Alpha Omega has been looking at backup software and has discovered that you can host a BitTorrent Sync server on your Raspberry Pi Read about how to do it
Reading Car Diagnostics with a #RaspberryPi and an OBD-II adapter
Martin O’Hanlon read about someone reading diagnostics from a motorbike and decided to adapt the work to read OBD-II information from his car. He found an adapter that converted the car port to USB and then created a Python script…
Track aircraft with your #RaspberryPi and a TV tuner
Using an RTL-2832U chipset TV tuner, it is possible to track aircraft using your Raspberry Pi. There is a wiki page on RaspberryTorte.com that shows you how to do it! Read all about it here
RaspDev – an Eclipse plugin for the #RaspberryPi
I’ve just found this for those who are familiar with the Eclipse IDE. It’s an SDK, framework and plugin for Eclipse for Python software development on the Raspberry Pi. Looks very interesting. Read more here