Jamie Bailey from Initial State (a brilliant IoT API website) has been in touch again. This time, he’s published a really fun tutorial in which you create a set of scales from a Wii Balance Board and hook it up to…
Category: Tutorials
Take the Minecraft Bedrock Challenge with the Raspberry Pi and The MagPi
The MagPi has just published a fun little tutorial which gives you the code for “The Bedrock Challenge”. In Minecraft Pi Edition, the Python code generates a random, invisible arena with holes in the floor that you must avoid to prevent…
Creating a Python Package on the Raspberry Pi
These instructions will work for any Linux environment. Ben Croston, who wrote RPi.GPIO (and brewed the wonderful Irration Ale for this year’s Pi Birthday Weekend from his Fuzzy Duck Brewery) has written a tutorial for creating a proper “package” out…
Using the Flotilla Python library on the Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ backed the Flotilla Kickstarter by Pimoroni and finally received his Mega Treasure Chest in March. He’s now begun to get to grips with the Python library that comes with it and has made a clever light meter and display using three…
Use the Raspberry Pi and the BBC micro:bit together with MicroPython and mu
Over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, they say that they’re “platform agnostic”. In other words, whatever people can use to learn coding and electronics is all for the good. That’s why it’s encouraging to see them publish a new set of…
Using the DHT11 humidity/temperature sensor with the Raspberry Pi
The DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor is an inexpensive sensor. It has a +/- 2 degree variance, so it’s not suitable for high-precision use-cases (for that you need the DHT22). Over at Circuit Basics, they’ve written a tutorial which will…
Getting started with Picamera on the Raspberry Pi
Ben Nuttall has just published a new ‘Learn’ resource on the Raspberry Pi website. This new resource takes you through using the Picamera Python library to do the following: How to connect the camera module to the Raspberry Pi How to…
Take screenshots of Minecraft and other stuff on the Raspberry Pi
I’m over at the in-laws but thought I might just as well blog a bit. 🙂 Martin O’Hanlon has blogged about a utility called raspi2png which “Andrew from Melbourne” has written which allows you to take screenshots, including from Minecraft Pi Edition.…
Install Chromium OS on the Raspberry Pi
ChromiumOS, which is similar to ChromeOS, is available to install on the Raspberry Pi. Gus over at Pi My Life Up has written a tutorial that will help you download and write the image to an SD card so you…
Code a holdable button with GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon has worked out how to extend GPIO Zero and has coded up a ‘holdable button’. This means that you can code a physical button to do one thing on a momentary press and another thing when the button is…