Phil Martin has worked out how to activate AP mode on the built-in wifi module on the Raspberry Pi 3. Using some standard Linux software, he has written a tutorial that takes you through the activation, allow the Pi to give out…
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Run a network stack over Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3
By now, of course, everyone knows that the new Raspberry Pi 3 includes Bluetooth capability. Andrew Mulholland has made a video that shows you how to run a full network stack via Bluetooth using his Mac. If anyone can get…
Increase the range and quality of your Raspberry Pi 3 wifi
Ward, from DorkbotPDX, has tried out two concepts for increasing the range and quality of his Raspberry Pi 3 wifi connection. I should point out straight away: this hack voids your warranty and FCC certification, and the soldering is a bit…
Play the Imperial March from Star Wars using a Raspberry Pi and a piezo buzzer
Dum dum dum dum-de-dum dum-de-dum. Leon Anavi has written an Instructable tutorial in which he takes a simple piezo buzzer, connects it up to his Pi and then uses C/wiringPi to play John Williams’ Imperial March. You can read the Instructable here.…
Setting a static IP address on the Raspberry Pi running Jessie Lite
Jeff Geerling has discovered in his work on the Raspberry Pi Dramble cluster that Raspbian Jessie does networking a bit differently. Whereas before (with Wheezy) it was just a case of adding some lines to /etc/network/interfaces, now you need to add some…
Create your own Raspberry Pi HAT with The MagPi
The MagPi has published a tutorial that teaches you how to prototype your very own, simple Raspberry Pi HAT. They work with a breadboard to start with and go through the process of flashing the EEPROM. Read it here.
Explore an AstroPi winning entry with the Raspberry Pi website
Hannah Belshaw from Cumnor House Girls School recently won the chance to have her AstroPi project run on the International Space Station. The project records data from the AstroPi’s SenseHAT and then visualises that data inside the world of Minecraft. Martin O’Hanlon,…
CamJam EduKit 1 joins Raspberry Pi learning resources
Pardon me while I get a little excited! 🙂 Ben Nuttall ran a GPIO Zero workshop at the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend. In the workshop, he used components from CamJam EduKit 1 (a cheap electronics components kit) to teach the basics…
Use a Raspberry Pi Zero to feed pictures to a digital picture frame
Francesco Vannini has written a tutorial, based on work by Andrew Mulholland, to allow you to use a Raspberry Pi Zero as a mass storage device which can be read as a source by a digital picture frame. Read it…
Build yourself a portable power source for the Raspberry Pi
There are a couple of pre-built solutions for powering the Raspberry Pi on a portable basis. Some are actually ‘out there’, some are… a bit delayed, we’ll say. Instructables user DylanD581 has written a great tutorial which uses an Adafruit HAT…