Jason Barnett has written a tutorial over on tuts+ about using a Wii Nunchuck to control the turtle library to draw lines via Python. There’s two ways of doing it: hacking directly into the circuitry of the Nunchuck or using…
Category: Making
#RaspberryPi-controlled aquaponics
This is another Instructable, this time from user matthewh415. (It) uses the IBC method of Aquaponics, with modifications to include a Raspberry Pi for controlling a pump, solenoid drain, and temperature probes for water and air temperatures. The relays and timing…
Get notifications from your #RaspberryPi when new email arrives
Instructables employee Aleator777 has written an in-depth guide to creating an email notifier with a Pi. It checks a Gmail account and then lights up if there is new email. It’s quite a complicated tutorial and even uses laser-cut wooden…
Checking tickets at concert venues with a #RaspberryPi
“willseph” was fed up with the amount of space, and the relative cost, of using netbooks to check tickets at his company’s events. So, he decided to create the PiGates – a Raspberry Pi using a barcode scanner that will…
Make a candle with the #RaspberryPi
Everyone knows that the equivalent of Hello World with the GPIO is to make an LED blink. Well, in this tutorial from Linux User magazine, Russell Barnes shows how to do it with some flair by using the PWM pin of…
The Nintendo Keytar – a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser
Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN/OUT connections MidiNES / Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.…
Brew beer with the #RaspberryPi
Sebastian Düll has created a Raspberry Pi-powered beer brewing controller. It’s pretty advanced (but then, as Lifehacker pointed out: if you want a Pi controlling the brewing you’re going to already be pretty serious about it!) His instructions, including designs…
Matboard: easy-to-use GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi from a father-and-son team
Father-and-son team Martin and Matthew Brabham have worked together to build a GPIO board for the Pi. The Matboard features 4 LEDs, 4 buttons, 4 relays, a darlington pair transistor buffer to drive the relays and buffer the inputs and a prototyping…
Use a PIR sensor with your #RaspberryPi
This is a nice little project to get you using your GPIO pins – a movement detector using a PIR sensor. Read how to do it here
DiceBot: a Twitter-controller dice roller powered by a #RaspberryPi
Dave Naffis over at Intridea has blogged about their new contraption: an automated dice roller that reads in tweets, looks for a hashtag and then rolls two dice inside an ancient dice game using a motor. It then uses the…