Jeff Highsmith, who created a Mission Control Desk for his kids earlier this year, has now unveiled his latest creation. It’s a command capsule that mimics the Apollo moon missions! Made out of wood, it has 38 switches of various…
Category: Making
Using an ADXL345 Accelerometer on your #RaspberryPi with Python
Martin O’Hanlon has written up a brief tutorial on using this excellent accelerometer from Adafruit. Read it here.
GardenPi: Garden care with your #RaspberryPi
Shawn Anderson wanted to be lazy and automate the watering of his garden based on the likelihood of rain. So, he programmed his Pi to get a forecast from the Forecast.io API and then put together a system whereby a solenoid…
Home Energy Centre using a #RaspberryPi and Nook Simple Touch
Raspberry Pi Foundation forum user Gaz99 has developed a Home Energy Centre which uses a Pi to collect Solar PV data and Solar Thermal (hot water) information along with the weather and turn this into an easy to understand display that is…
Weather station with the #PiTFT
Jamie Jackson has written some code that uses the weather.com API to pull a weather forecast into his Pi. He then displays it on his PiTFT using some icons he downloaded. It’s a neat little set-up that is well worth a…
Building a vertical plotter with the #RaspberryPi
Brandon Green has created a Polargraph. It’s a vertical old-fashioned plotter that uses a program written in ‘Go’ on the Raspberry Pi to send commands to an Arduino which then controls two stepper motors connected to thread to move the…
#RaspberryPi meets 1942 Crosley Radio
Andy Felong took a Raspberry Pi, a case for an old radio, an amplifier and an LCD plus driver board and created a media centre. He’s given a few more details on his blog and, if you post in the…
#RaspberryPi bluetooth receiver for car stereo
Parker Reed decided he wanted to allow his car stereo to play audio received over bluetooth. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi with a bluetooth dongle to his car’s cigarette lighter power socket (using a USB adapter) and altered…
Stop freezing pipes with the #RaspberryPi and a new #Arduino board
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has invented a new board that plugs into the Raspberry Pi. Called a RasPiO duino, it’s programmable from the Pi and will also work away from the Pi providing it’s given a power source. He has…
DIY #RaspberryPi photo booth
DrumminHands Design has written up their photo booth project with enough detail that you could probably reproduce their work. It uses a huge button to take photographs using the camera module then turns the pictures into an animated gif and…