Spencer Organ recently spoke at CamJam about his timelapse video rig (pictured above). It uses an Arduino in combination with the Raspberry Pi (and it’s associated camera module) to pan across a landscape, taking photographs every so often as defined…
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Use a micro:bit and your Raspberry Pi to cause earthquakes in Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon is a Minecraft programming guru and he’s come up with a great method of using a micro:bit to generate earthquakes inside Minecraft: Pi Edition. You hook one of your micro:bit’s pins up to a GPIO pin on the…
Connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet using an Ethernet cable
San Diego based Dave Johnson had a problem: he was due to be using his Raspberry Pi to demonstrate IoT applications using Node.js in a speaking engagement. This meant that he needed to be able to connect the Raspberry Pi to…
Using a Raspberry Pi to control a face-tracking desk fan
The Foundation have just blogged this nice little project from Instructables user DevinL9. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, hooked it up to a servo and then used the servo to control the position of a small fan with a small webcam mounted…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a wi-fi access point
Lady Ada over at Adafruit has updated their guide for turning a Raspberry Pi into an access point. Now working with the Raspberry Pi 3, the guide works with the latest Raspbian Jessie and uses either an external wi-fi dongle…
Create a planetarium night-light using a Raspberry Pi
Daniel Chote‘s son was learning about stars and astronomy in day-care, but was always in bed before it got dark. So, Daniel decided to use a Raspberry Pi to create a planetarium night-light! It involves a lot of tinkering and software…
Building a Raspberry Pi-powered walkie talkie
Daniel Chote (a New Zealander now living in the USA) has built a walkie talkie for his kids out of a Raspberry Pi, some small electronic parts and a 3D case. When you press the button, you can use the…
Build a Hadoop cluster with Apache Spark on YARN with Raspberry Pis
PK over at DQYDJ has written an excellent tutorial on creating a Raspberry Pi cluster and then installing Hadoop and some other software to do word analysis using the power of that cluster. It’s a really good example of big data…
Find out who’s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State
Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a “who’s at home/who’s in the office” service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi…
Catch those eggs in this cute Raspberry Pi / SenseHAT game
Dan Aldred wrote an article for MagPi issue 47 in which he creates a simple game using the SenseHAT and the Raspberry Pi. In the game, you play a red “basket” at the bottom of the screen which moves according to…