Francesco Vannini recently had an article published in The MagPi about creating an access point using a Pi and two add-on boards: PaPiRus and Pi PoE from Pi Supply. He’s now blogged the full instructions of the project and you can read them…
Category: Tutorials
Raspberry Pi controlled vegetable irrigation system
Ben Finio’s wife plants a large vegetable garden every year but eventually grows tired of maintaining it. I can sympathise. A lot. So, Ben decided that he could use a Raspberry Pi to automate the watering process. He has set…
Web-controlled Raspberry Pi robot with streaming video
James Poole, who recently gave us a great way to put a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller, has branched out into robotics. He’s gone about it the old-fashioned way by using an H-bridge chip to drive two motors attached…
SIMON – 80’s classic physical gaming with a Raspberry Pi
In 1980s, SIMON was all the rage. SIMON was a memory game in which segments of a circle lit up a particular colour in a particular sequence. The player then had to reproduce the exact same sequence to progress with…
Full Minecraft game running on a Raspberry Pi 3
Mike Hooper has been looking at ways to get the full version of Minecraft working on his Pi. He’s now managed it and has written up a tutorial over on the Raspberry Pi Forums. Great work, Mike! You can see…
How to free up space on your Raspberry Pi SD card
Alex Eames has just written a great tutorial which takes you through the process of removing specific packages from your Pi’s SD card. He chooses to remove Wolfram and LibreOffice for a massive 1.3GB space saving. If you’re running short of…
Calculate Pi and print on a thermal printer from a Raspberry Pi
Billy has written an Instructable in which he explains how to calculate Pi in various ways before writing a method in Python code to do it. The result is then printed out on a thermal printer from Adafruit. The whole…
Game Boy Zero with a Raspberry Pi – get yourself an old one and follow along!
Wermy, the creator of the brilliant Game Boy Zero has started to blog a ‘How To’ guide on sudomod.com. He starts out by taking a broken Game Boy and Dremelling it to add holes for the buttons and removing the battery…
Nintendo DS-sized clamshell Raspberry Pi portable computer
http://i.imgur.com/BkUYrvT.webm Chris Robinson from NODE has taken a Raspberry Pi 2 and adapted it to fit into a hard drive enclosure. He added a screen, a battery and a mini keyboard, together with some other parts, and created this Nintendo DS-style…
Getting started with IoT platform Cayenne on the Raspberry Pi
I recently installed and tried out “Cayenne“, which is an Internet of Things platform for the Raspberry Pi. You hook sensors up to your Pi, create the relevant boxes on Cayenne and then you can see readings over the Internet. Not…