Ben Finio has written an excellent Instructable in which he details the process of reverse-engineering some wireless remotes for electrical sockets and then combines them with a Pi running Steven Hickson‘s VoiceCommand software. Read all about it here
Category: Making
Use Wolfram Mathematica to do more on your #RaspberryPi than you thought possible
And I thought that Mathematica was only for doing maths on the Pi. Boy was I wrong! The Foundation have just published a great article linking to several examples that show Mathematica doing some cool stuff over the GPIO. Read…
Use Flask on the #RaspberryPi to make an internet-controlled lamp
Jack Minardi has hacked into a lamp remote control with his Pi and used the Flask Python framework to expose the control to the internet. Read more here
An Atari Asteroids controller for the #RaspberryPi
I love retro projects (as evidenced by Daniel Bull’s recent guest post) and this one is great. Tim Bartlett has created his own arcade case and added arcade buttons and a Raspberry Pi to be able play the old Atari…
Internet radio project using a #RaspberryPi made out of discarded tech
Giles Booth (and his kids) have taken an old USB audio input/output box and made an internet radio out of it. He’s now added a button to it to change the station. Read more about the project here and here.
Analog sensors without analog inputs on the #RaspberryPi
Electronics guru Simon Monk has posted on his blog about using some analog inputs, such as a potentiometer, with the Pi without needing to add an A2D chip. He’s done this by using a couple of resistors and a capacitor…
Water your plants with a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Chris Hannam has blogged about a project he’s developed to monitor the environment around his plants. He’s used a RaspberryPi and an Arduino to do it and if you’re interested you can read about it on his blog.
Talking reindeer decoration with a #RaspberryPi
They produce a lot of good material over at Penguin Tutor and it’s well worth keeping an eye out for new stuff. This tutorial is a bit of fun – they’ve taken a reindeer head decoration from HobbyCraft and outfitted…
Internet-controlled #RaspberryPi Christmas decoration using PiRingo @4tronix_uk
Introduction The PiRingo is a lovely little board from 4tronix. It has a ring of 12 LEDs and two switches and is plugged directly into the GPIO socket of the Pi. It comes in 5 different flavours (which are basically…
#RaspberryPi enabled Christmas Lights
Shabaz over on the Element14 community has created a very complex project which allows his Pi to control his Christmas lights. This required a fair bit of electronics knowledge to accomplish. Read more at Element14