A cute little Instructable on creating an arcade cabinet table using a Pi, a couple of old-fashioned coin-up buttons and a coin-up joystick. Coffee Table Pi.
Category: Making
#RaspberryPi – Ultrasonic sensor
Raspberry Pi – Ultrasonic sensor – YouTube. Great tutorial on how to get the SR04 Ultrasonic distance sensor up-and-running on the Pi. This is what I’m using on the PiPodCorder and the tutorial uses some of the same code and…
#RaspberryPi & XBox ChatPad / @Raspberry_Pi
This fantastic project is to create an expansion board, on top of which sits an XBox ChatPad. The page includes details on how to do it including a detailed parts list. There’s a software driver to go along with it.…
Debrick your router using #Arduino – possibly with #RaspberryPi ?
Here’s a blog post that someone wrote after bricking (really, really messing up) their TP-Link WR740N router. They used an Arduino to communicate over serial pins to the router and then pushed a new firmware to it, thus saving the…
Connecting Electronics – a presentation and associated code files
Trystan Jones at www.crennsmind.com did a presentation on connecting electronics to the GPIO and has released both the presentation and associated code files to the public domain over at GitHub. crenn/RPi-Connecting_Electronics · GitHub. The presentation is a very good, succinct,…
LEGO MINDSTORMS Sensors with the #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
A great tutorial on using a Mindstorms sensor (dIMU Accelerometer and Gyroscope for the LEGO MINDSTORMS) with a breadboard adapter and a Raspberry Pi. LEGO MINDSTORMS Sensors with the Raspberry Pi | | /HowTo/HowTo.
Research into Stepper Motors with the #RaspberryPi
I’ve decided that my next project with the Pi will involve motors of some sort. At the very least I’d like to work out how to control a motor and have it do… something. I’d like, ideally, to create some…
Read two sensors on the same GPIO pins with the I2C bus on the #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi
This great Instructable finally opens my eyes to what can be achieved using I2C. In short, it gives instructions for reading two sensors on the same GPIO pins. In other words, you wire both sensors up to the same two pins…
Adding a Bluetooth serial terminal to #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Great tutorial on how to use a little breakout module to add a serial port that you can connect to over bluetooth. Going to get hold of one of these cheap ($8/£5 from dx.com) devices and give it a go!…
Quite Rubbish Clock for the #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Excellent post about creating a clock that shows the time in QR-code, thus making it only readable by using a QR scanner/reader. Completely useless, of course, but a fun way to use surplus LCD boards. The Quite Rubbish Clock |…