Richard Hayler has a bunch of original Raspberry Pi Model Bs and accompanying 4GB SD cards. Rather than just throw these away and get new 8GB cards to fit the whopping 4.3GB Jessie image on, he decided to slim down…
Category: Tutorials
Track aircraft near you with PiAware on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted to track aircraft near him. So, he installed PiAware on his Raspberry Pi and then wrote some simple Python to detect when an aircraft was nearby and then light up an LED. It’s a simple project, but it’s a…
Install Chromium 45 on Jessie on the Raspberry Pi 2
Conor O’Neill has found out that the Ubuntu developers have been continuing to build Pi-compatible versions of desktop browser Chromium. He has documented a way to install it on the new Jessie version of Raspbian on his website. As he…
Using a hall-effect sensor with the Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins wanted to detect a magnet on his 3D printer. To do this, he has used a hall-effect sensor module and some simple Python script on the Raspberry Pi. If you want to experiment with this nice little, cheap…
Read flight information via Python on a Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon has created a Python class that interrogates the JSON feed data from Piaware (the Pi implementation of FlightAware), exposing that data to any Python script that you might care to write. The class, FlightData, is available to download…
Learn how to use the Raspberry Pi and the Internet of Things on this free course
Initial State, who I’ve blogged about before, host an Internet of Things service that allows you to send data to it and then visualise that data using their dashboard tools. They have now written a course based around their service…
Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device
Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, over at Element 14. His latest instalment deals with taking readings from the SenseHAT and then sending them to the cloud via a service called Initial State. He’s…
Wireless FM radio microphone built using a Raspberry Pi
Removed as it is illegal in the UK to broadcast on FM at this kind of strength.
Controlling air conditioning using a Raspberry Pi and a Microsoft Band
As part of the IoT Zone over at Dzone.com, Joost van Schaik has written up his ‘air conditioning’ project which uses the Microsoft Windows 10 Core IoT operating system to read the temperature in a room and then activate a fan if…
Remote-control lawnmower powered by a Raspberry Pi
A recent 24-hour StartFEST hackathon has awarded first prize to three brothers from Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan, Doug and David Leonard used a Raspberry Pi to control wheels connected to two drill motors that propelled a lawnmower across the garden. They…