Jeremy Blythe has been busy. He’s created a live web bicycle dashboard using his ControlMyPi project. The Pi is carried onboard his bike and then he uses a combination of the Raspberry Pi a 3G dongle the Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout…
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DSTAR amateur radio net with #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi /DStar amateur radio group on Facebook combines two hobbies together, The Raspberry Pi computer and D-STAR radio. The group wants you to know about their R-Pi/D-STAR amateur radio net which will be conducted most Monday Nights starting February 18th, 2013 on REF026A…
#RaspberryPi + Wii controller + #Gertboard = Great Fun
Alex has done a fantastic demo video of his Gertboard and how he can control it using a Wiimote. This is off the back of Matt Hawkins’ work on the Wiimote. Using a Wii controller with your Raspberry Pi, Gertboard,…
A Harry Potter/Ronald Weasley Clock run by a #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Here’s a cute little project. It’s an analogue clock that shows where the owner of the clock is. There’s a Raspberry Pi under the hood with a mobile broadband dongle that ‘sees’ where the owner is via GPS-check in and…
SolarPi – solar-powered #RaspberryPi monitoring house environment / @Raspberry_Pi
Here’s a website running directly off of a Raspberry Pi powered by the sun from a 1.2m x 0.5m solar powered grid. SolarPi. Currently, the site contains a Met Office widget for the weather, Raspberry Pi uptime counter, solar panel…
Guide to #RaspberryPi revisions / @Raspberry_Pi
Thanks to Dom over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation discussion forums, we now have a comprehensive list of all the different versions and revisions of the Pi. You can find out your revision number by going to the command prompt…
Pecan Pi Relays expansion board from Nwazet for #RaspberryPi
Interesting new expansion board from US supplier Nwazet. Here is what they say about the board: The Pecan Pi Relays kit is designed to be interfaced with the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO connector and features six normally open relays, each capable of switching…
Automatic #RaspberryPi board revision detection
Frank Carver, over at RaspberryAlphaOmega, has done a comparison between the different revision numbers of the two Models of the Raspberry Pi. He lists the different revisions and explains what capabilities or tweaks can be inferred from the revision number.…
Nintendo Wii Remote, Python and the #RaspberryPi
Great article from Matt Hawkins on getting a Wii remote communicating with the Raspberry Pi. Nintendo Wii Remote, Python and The Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy. There’s also another article on the same topic at Brian Hensley’s blog that…
Using your #RaspberryPi as a web-enabled irrigation bypass @Raspberry_Pi
Project to create an irrigation control from a Pi that bypasses the irrigation depending on the weather. Project 2: Using your Raspberry Pi as a web-enabled irrigation bypass.