Martin Harizanov has posted up instructions for adding framebuffer support to the Pi to support little displays such as this: Read the instructions here You can buy the 1.8″ display that Martin’s got from his store. It costs all of…
Category: Making
A pan-tilt kit Kickstarter for the #RaspberryPi camera module
OpenElectrons.com, who have previously created Arduino shields for NXT motors and other NXT bits, have launched a Kickstarter project for a nifty pan-and-tilt mechanism for the camera module called the Pi-Pan. You can still back it for the next 12…
Wireless Serial Communication with the #RaspberryPi – Part 1
A blog post on A Slice of Raspberry Pi details how to set-up the Pi end of a wireless serial link. It uses the Slice of Pi GPIO board to do this. The second part, which shows how to set-up…
#RaspberryPi powered door sensor plays sound effects
This intriguing Adafruit tutorial, written with George Brower, has you creating a door sensor using a Pi and a PIR sensor which applauds you when you enter and boos when you leave, thanks to the built-in speaker. Read the tutorial
Solar powered #RaspberryPi
Jay Doscher has written a blog post about powering your outdoors Raspberry Pi with solar panels from Adafruit. Read more here
How to build a #RaspberryPi room alarm
Over on the Make website, there’s a piece (that’s not quite a tutorial) about creating a room alarm system using a Raspberry Pi, a PIR motion sensor, a flashing blue light and a keypad to enter a code to disarm the…
More port expander goodness with #RaspberryPi Spy
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy is also ‘at it’ with an MCP23017 port expander and has done a lower-level tutorial dealing with the smbus library rather than WiringPi2. Read it here
#RaspberryPi car camera overlaid with OBD data
Martin O’Hanlon, whose work & blog I greatly respect, has created a car dash camera with a Pi and camera module. He has now worked out how to overlay a subtitle file generated from an OBD-II feed from his car.…
Using a #RaspberryPi to control USB traffic light
Marcel Birkner has written a tutorial about getting a USB traffic light working via the Pi. Read more here
Run the #RaspberryPi on 3.3V of power
Dave Akerman knows all about power, and how to use as little as possible to power the Pi. He has written a tutorial into how to do this. Now, please note that this will void your warranty and possibly your…