Raspberry Pi laptops are somewhat of a holy grail for Pi users. You can, of course, just buy a Pi Top and build it from their kit. Or, alternatively you could go the DIY route as Instructables user Prosnow22 has done.…
Category: Tutorials
Turn your Raspberry Pi (Zero) into a dedicated VPN server
Transposed Messenger has written a great tutorial in which he explains how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated VPN. This will work with all Raspberry Pis, not just the Zero but he’s used the Zero because it’s cheap…
Boot your Raspberry Pi through an Ethernet cable
Gordon Hollingworth has just published his second blog post on the Pi’s new booting modes. This one is all about booting over Ethernet with no SD card on the client Pi. The new functionality is documented here and there’s a…
Directly connect to and program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
For a while, it has been possible to communicate and program a Raspberry Pi Zero via it’s USB data port. I’ve covered this useful feature before, beginning with Andrew Mulholland’s original work but I feel it’s worth covering again, particularly when…
Mobile data and GPS enabled Raspberry Pi Zero
Rachel Gibbs, over at Initial State, has written a great tutorial which gets a Pi Zero online via a mobile data connection. She’s added a GPS module to the FONA board and then powered the lot using a small LIPO…
Clock, weather and radar display built around a Raspberry Pi and a monitor
Kevin Uhlir has been in contact. He’s built a lovely clock by using a Raspberry Pi. Built into the screen of an old monitor, the Pi retrieves data from Weather Underground and maps from Google Maps. He’s built several of the…
Never leave the house on a rainy day without an umbrella again – Raspberry Pi + weather
An engineer over at Device Plus has come up with an over-engineered solution to the perennial problem of knowing when to take an umbrella with you. An ultrasonic sensor detects when someone has approached the front door, the Weather Underground…
Taking pictures of bats at night with a Raspberry Pi
Martin Mander recently noticed that his back garden attracted bats. Inspired by this, he set about creating a camera that could see in the dark and take pictures of the bats as they came flying in. He repurposed a hand-held…
Create an attendance system using RFID and a Raspberry Pi
Over at Circuit Digest, Saddam has written a tutorial that helps you to create an attendance system based on RFID cards and a reader. The code is written in C and Saddam takes you through it all so you understand…
Calculate true North using a Raspberry Pi, a GPS and a compass
CodeGirl42 has written a very comprehensive tutorial that teaches you all about GPS and taking magnetic North bearings using a magnetometer. There’s a lot of maths involved, but she takes you through it and then creates a C++ script to carry…