Dexter Industries’ GoPiGo is a great robotics kit for the Pi. They’ve done several tutorials based on the kit, but this one caught my eye. This code teaches the robot how to be ‘autonomous’ to a certain extent. It allows the robot…
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Two-faced clock controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice little Instructable project to flex your robotics muscles. Anthony (who is really just a teddy bear – seriously!) has made a nice wall-clock with two hands that are powered by steppers which are controlled by this nice little…
Analysing traffic patterns with the Raspberry Pi
Over at MathWorks’ MakerZone, Eric Wetjen has written a tutorial/article in which he shows a way of using a webcam to count cars on a highway. The webcam captures images and then they use Simulink to analyse the images. The data is then sent…
LEDs that move and mirror your hand movements with a Leap Motion and a Raspberry Pi
Over at PubNub, they’ve been using Java to do some great things. This time, they’re using it to interact with a Leap Motion. Movements in the user’s hands are replicated with servos. Attached to the servos are some 8×8 LED…
Basement storage temperature and humidity monitor with a Raspberry Pi
A basement full of old books but no way to monitor humidity and temperature. Enter a Raspberry Pi. This hacker has put together a DHT22 sensor and an LCD screen with the Pi in order to monitor environmental conditions in…
Install Apache and PHP on your Raspberry Pi
Web applications developer Ste W from Wales is currently blogging about setting up a LAMP stack on your Raspberry Pi in order to host a WordPress blog. You can read the first part of his tutorial, which covers installing Apache and…
Turn a Raspberry Pi into a portable streaming camera
Anderson Silva wanted to have a go at playing around with a touchscreen and a Pi camera. So, he decided to create a fully portable, battery-powered set-up that would enable him to see the video stream from his camera over…
More RPi.GPIO wisdom from RasPi.TV for the Raspberry Pi
In addition to Tuesday’s blog post about RPI_INFO, Alex has also discovered a new function call inside the RPi.GPIO Python library: getmode(). This is a companion to setmode() and reads back what mode the library is set to – BCM, BOARD or…
Create a Raspberry Pi iBeacon and iPhone app
Shea Silverman has blogged about creating a bluetooth iBeacon by using a Bluetooth dongle with a Raspberry Pi. He’s written comprehensive, though brief, instructions for setting up the iBeacon and then gone on to explain how to alter the downloadable software to…
Raspberry Pi burglar alarm for your home
Over at TechRadar, the guys and girls from Linux Format have blogged about creating a burglar alarm for your home. The system uses a PIR sensor to detect movement and then takes a picture and a video then uses an…