Here’s a neat real-life project. Apologies for the use of the word ‘neat’. Viktor Rene works for Stopp Family. They are a production company that wanted to trigger the playing of a video on a billboard when an underground train…
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Doctor Who fan starts creating a K9 with a #RaspberryPi
Image copyright BBC. No infringement intended. Doctor Who fan William Reichardt decided that he wanted to do an electronics project that would bring together a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Being the Whovian he is he decided to recreate the Doctor’s…
Monitor your aquarium with the #RaspberryPi
Using a combination of the Pi and a waterproof temperature sensor (and some other bits), Laura Orsini has created a water temperature-sensing project to monitor her aquarium. She has kindly written a full tutorial on how to do it. Read…
Pinewood Derby race track with the #RaspberryPi
Over at Make they’re doing a Raspberry Pi birthday series of articles, so I thought I’d bring them to the attention of my blog readers. The first one is from a guy called Ryan Slaugh. He’s used a Pi and…
Night time wildlife camera with the #RaspberryPi and the PiNoIR
Paul Brown has taken his Pi, hooked up a PIR motion sensor and plugged in a PiNoIR camera. He’s waterproofed it for use outside and then run some tests to detect movement in his house at night (don’t worry –…
Make a buzzer sound with the #RaspberryPi
Matt Manning continues his series on simple GPIO interaction with this video showing how to wire up and program a buzzer with Python. Watch the video here
Interpret AirPi readings on your #RaspberryPi
Fred Sonnenwald has been experimenting with Tom Hartley’s AirPi and has written an excellent article on how to interpret the readings you get from the various different sensors. It’s quite a mathematical article, but he goes very in-depth on it.…
Mission Control desk is powered by a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Jeff Highsmith has solved the problem of needing to obtain a desk on which his son can do his homework – and with some style. By using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino together, he has created a Mission Control…
New series on Python and the GPIO from #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Matt Manning is busy writing a series on using the GPIO pins from Python. This exciting series will use a variety of different components wired up on a breadboard to do projects including the following: Turning on LEDs Blinking LEDs…
Connecting an Arduino to the #RaspberryPi using I2C
There are several ways to connect an Arduino to a Pi. The simplest way is to just plug it into one of the USB sockets on the Pi. Peter Mount, however, needed to do things differently as he was already…