Here’s a nice tutorial from Tyler Winegarner over at Make. It uses the PiPlay distro to give you an arcade emulator. You then add your controller in the form of an Arduino Esplora and configure your games accordingly. All the instructions for how…
Category: Tutorials
Create a banana beat box with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial at speakerdeck.com that tells you how to use the Pimoroni Explorer HAT…
Set up an nginx web server on the Raspberry Pi
Most of the time when you’re setting up a web server on the Pi, you’ll end up using Apache. However, sometimes you want a lighter-weight solution. This is where nginx comes in. Shane Pfaffly has written a tutorial on setting it…
Internet-of-Things temperature reading with the Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial on reading data from a waterproof 1-wire temperature sensor and then outputting it to screen. He has then expanded on this to push the data up to online service Firebase. Read the tutorial…
Raspberry Pi add-on board RasPiO Duino gets new PWM video
Alex Eames has been busy creating a new video for owners of the excellent RasPiO Duino board. This one takes you through experiments you can do with the PWM pins on the Duino and helps you to create a colour-fading…
Run Spark and Groovy on a Raspberry Pi and generate simple web apps
Renato Athaydes has written a nice tutorial on installing Groovy and then Spark onto the Pi. He then goes through a simple tutorial that shows you how to build a simple web application using the framework. Between you and me, as a…
Raspberry Pi/RetroPi gaming machine tutorial
Spencer Organ has written up a great tutorial on creating a retro gaming machine from a Raspberry Pi and a small composite monitor. It adds a nice method for building the machine to some other tutorials and brings it all together.…
16×2 LCD game written in Python on the Raspberry Pi
Prashant Mohta is making a Python game based around a 16×2 LCD screen. To do this, he’s using a simulated LCD on the desktop and then he’ll add in the real thing later. He’s currently on part 3 and it’s well…
Monitor the status of the London Underground with a Raspberry Pi and Neopixels
Ismail Uddin over at ScienceExposure.com has done a lovely tutorial, with accompanying code, that mines the London Underground API for tube line status information and then changes a Neopixel ring to give you an idea of how well everything is running. Read…
I2C sensor reading with Windows 10 IoT on the Raspberry Pi
Olivier Matis has written a programming tutorial which shows you how to use an I2C barometric/temperature sensor (the good old BMP180) from within Window 10 IoT. Take a look here.