Alex Eames has been doing some investigation into wifi connections. Specifically, how to create a connection to a hidden wifi network so that the Pi automatically connects each time it is booted up. He’s found the secret sauce inside wpa_supplicant…
Don Watkins over at OpenSource.com has written a software tutorial in which he installs the Calibre e-book management system onto a Raspberry Pi and then configures it to act as an e-book server. Take a look here.
Les Pounder has been having a play with Laura‘s GUI Zero Python library which makes it easy to create GUIs. He’s created a program which reads in news via RSS and then displays the top news stories inside a miniature GUI.…
Alex Ellis decided to grow some cress and he wanted a way of monitoring the growth. To do this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero, a Pi camera and a cheap plastic box to grow the cress in. The Pi…
The folks over at Diligence Technologies have written an interesting Instructable that can be used for simple home security. A Pi is connected to a camera module and then a piece of software written in Python is used to detect…
Mathieu Bonte has written a great Instructable in which he creates a model house and then wires up a Raspberry Pi to various lamps to light the model. In the Instructable, he takes you through wiring it all up, via…
Texas-based Computer Scientist Estefannie has rigged up a GoPro camera to take photographs of herself. The GoPro cable is fed into a backpack which houses a Raspberry Pi 3. The Pi has a GPS board connected to it and calculates the…
Dr Lucy Rogers has taken inspiration from IBM’s IoT HQ and created an ambient air quality sensor that works using MQTT messages through the IBM Watson IoT Quickstart Platform. Readings of the air are taken using a Raspberry Pi Zero…
James West‘s son is a big Doctor Who fan. So, his dad decided to build him a classic series-inspired K9 toy. He purchased some acrylic sheets and some other material and then fitted inside a Raspberry Pi Zero W with…
I’ve not had much experience with Docker – haven’t really seen the point until now. However, with his new tutorial, Alex Ellis makes a convincing argument. Docker is a way of packaging up software into an image, much like Raspbian…
