In 2015, the Environment Agency released it’s LIDAR data to the general public. LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) uses a laser “to scan and map the landscape from above and is widely considered to be the best method for collecting very…
Packt Publishing is always offering free e-books and today is great if you want to learn about image processing. You will use the OpenCV library with Python with today’s book. Here is the book blurb: OpenCV is an open source computer…
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great tutorial that shows you how to set-up your Raspberry Pi with the motionEyeOS operating system. It lets you create yourself a CCTV camera that works over IP on your network.…
Mark Hughes has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for using FlightAware with a Zero W to track overhead flights. Obviously, it will work with any other Raspberry Pi, but the Zero W is a ‘cheap one’. He covers everything from…
Master tutorial writer Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has written a great how-to for setting up an email server using your Raspberry Pi. He uses a piece of software called Citadel and he covers how to install it and and configure it.…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has written a great, comprehensive tutorial on creating a wi-fi access point using a Raspberry Pi 3. He goes through all the software you need to install and configure. Read the tutorial here.
Alex Eames is currently running a Kickstarter to fund his latest project – RasPiO Inspiring. As part of the campaign (which is already funded!), he has shot a video of a project you can do with the driver board and an Inspiring LED…
Frederick Vandenbosch, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend last weekend, has just written up a great guide to working headless with a Raspberry Pi (i.e. without a screen, keyboard or mouse plugged into…
Over at 314Reactor, one ingenious maker has taken a Raspberry Pi A+ and created his very own smart watch running Windows 98. He uses the emulation software QEMU to run the operating system, a small TFT screen to display it…
Albert Hickey recently went to a Raspberry Jam and took along with him his latest project: a green-screen photo booth. The booth, which runs on a Raspberry Pi 3, uses Imagemagick to remove the colour green (provided by a green backdrop purchased from…
