Alex Eames recently announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter – it includes an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip and an analog temperature sensor (TMP36). Alex has now written a tutorial to show you how to use the chip…
Category: Tutorials
Build a Twitterbot with Python on your Raspberry Pi
Trevor Appleton has written a really good walk-through tutorial on using the Twitter API and the tweepy Python library to send tweets out from your Pi. Take a look here.
Use bar graph displays with the Raspberry Pi
Average Man has written a great tutorial on using these tiny bar graph displays with the Pi. There’s a lot of wiring involved, and a lot of maths, but he takes you through it. He’s also written some code to…
Control an X-wing in Minecraft using the Raspberry Pi and Skywriter HAT
Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the…
Building a massive cricket scoreboard on a shoestring budget with a Raspberry Pi
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed…
Fading LEDs using PWM with GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
The project GPIO Zero, the new GPIO library from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is becoming my go-to method for doing simple things with the Pi’s GPIO pins. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been having fun preparing for the…
Build a physical dashboard with the Raspberry Pi
This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an…
Shutdown your Raspberry Pi using a paper clip
When you’re running your Raspberry Pi headless, one of the first things you should concern yourself with is how to shut it down safely. Shutting it down by simply pulling the power out can result in a corrupt SD card or…
Raspberry Pi powered video binoculars
Josh Williams has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, a pair of binoculars and some laser-cut pieces of wood and fashioned the PiNoculars. You can see from the picture what it is – a pair of binoculars with a video…
Make an audiophile music player with Volumio on a Raspberry Pi
Trevor Appleton has written a great tutorial about using the Volumio operating system to create a music player with a Raspberry Pi. This is a great piece of software and easy enough to get going. If you’re an audiophile, you…