Instructables user ‘tnkrmnz’ has written a tutorial on using a MSO-28 Oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi to create a portable unit that you can connect to with your smartphone. Part of the tutorial includes turning the unit into a wifi…
Category: Making
#RaspberryPi-based tablet is a piece of design beauty
Michael Castor has written a great article on MakeZine about making his PiPad – a Raspberry Pi-based tablet. He used a touchscreen from Chalk Elec and then created his own, beautiful, surround for it. It all runs off a battery…
Create a mini Maker Space for the #RaspberryPi and other electronics work
Christian Tsu-Raun has written a lovely piece at scholastic.com about what to put in your work area for your Maker activities. He describes a great work desk and explains all about what you need to fill it with to get…
More on the Cacheberry Pi – Go geocaching with the #RaspberryPi
Paul’s been hard at work turning the Raspberry Pi into a geocaching tool. Geocaching is a hobby which involves tracking down (using GPS and the naked eye) small boxes and packages. They contain a log book to record who found…
#RaspberryPi camera with timelapse functionality
Articles from Jason Birch don’t come along that often but when they do they’re always worth reading. This time, he’s created a camera with a screen and buttons to take pictures & video and do time lapse photography. Read more…
Use an OLED display with the #RaspberryPi courtesy of @RaspberryPiGuy1 and @Adafruit
Matthew Timmons-Brown (who presented the brilliant keynote at the last CamJam and runs his own YouTube channel) has written an excellent tutorial on using tiny OLED displays with the Raspberry Pi. Read the tutorial here
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…
Geocaching with the #RaspberryPi – the Cacheberry
@smstext has been building a Geocaching project with his Raspberry Pi. It’s still a work in progress at the moment but you can read about what he’s done here.
LED light sunrise clock with a #RaspberryPi
Hacker Ed Dawson has used an addressable strip of LED lights and some circuitry to create a sunrise clock. He’s done a complete write-up on reproducing his project. This is especially impressive because until the creation of some Python drivers…
Easy internet radio with a #RaspberryPi
Using a Pi, a button and a resistor, it’s possible to create this ultra-simple internet radio. Giles Booth has written the project up and you can read all about it here. Thanks to Pi Weekly for spotting this!