John at NYC CNC has created a machine that dispenses treats for his dog when an email is sent to a monitored address. http://www.nyccnc.com/judd-treat-machine.html Here’s a YouTube video about the project: Raspberry Pi Dog Treat Machine with webcam! Send…
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Modifying a 3.5″ car display for USB power – #RaspberryPi
For those of us who have one of those car rear-view monitors with composite inputs, this is a very promising forum topic over at the Foundation. Raspberry Pi • View topic – Modifying a 3.5″ car display for USB power..
Great Sites for the Pi #5 – BerryIO
Daniel Bull, who attends the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam, has created a stunning web interface for the Pi’s GPIO pins called BerryIO. It’s a great tool for beginners and experts alike to explore what the Pi can do with the…
Measure temperature with Arduino and MCP9700
Found a useful tutorial on using this tiny temperature sensor with the Arduino. Using the Raspberry Pi to program the Arduino using ‘ino’ and then monitoring the serial output with ‘ino serial’, I got a temperature reading and the whole…
Raspberry Pi and Arduino – thank you Dr Monk!
Very informative post on Dr Monk’s blog about connecting an Arduino to the Pi and reading serial information using Python. Helped me have a very successful evening getting a Hello World experiment working. Saved my Pi from the bin, too!…
Make a games controller for the Raspberry Pi
ComputerActive has a nice little tutorial on how to create a games controller for the Pi. Stripboard diagrams and all 🙂 Make a games controller for the Raspberry Pi – Computeractive – PC help.
Making a Reset Switch for your Rev 2 Raspberry P (reblog)
Alex over at Raspi.tv has done an excellent how-to for fitting a reset switch onto your Raspberry Pi. Making a Reset Switch for your Rev 2 Raspberry Pi » RasPi.tv.
Frustration with the MCP3008 ADC
I don’t often vent my spleen on my blog. This time, however, my frustration has boiled over. I’ve been trying to get an analog to digital converter working with my Pi. Now, I should say going into this I’m not…
Picorder and a Proto-Plate – project update
The Picorder project has been progressing, albeit slowly. So far, I’ve managed to add the following items to my Pi: a 16×2 LCD board a TMP102 temperature sensor an SR-04 ultrasonic distance sensor Coming up is my first foray into analog-to-digital…
Login terminal over USB/serial link to Jornada 680
The aim To operate the Raspberry Pi using a Jornada 680 (pictured, left) as a dumb terminal. The solution The Jornada 680 has a cable for sync-ing to Windows, the end of which terminates with a serial connector. Now, as…