Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
Category: Tutorials
Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
Social network monitor with Pygame on the Raspberry Pi
Richard “Average Man” Saville has built on Spencer Organ’s work on his PiTFT Internet Radio to create a “social network monitor”. He uses web-page scraping to get the data he needs (such as number of followers on Twitter, number of ‘likes’ on…
First person video with a Raspberry Pi attached to an RC TerraDrone
Beaneboper from Soldering Sunday has modified a remote-controlled Nerf TerraDrone so that his son can remotely control it and see what it is pointing at. He’s used the Pi Surveillance article from Makezine to set-up the camera part. Read more here.
Motion-triggered music player with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice Instructable tutorial from jenfoxbot. She uses an infra-red sensor that detects when the beam is broken and then plays music. The sensor is set-up across a doorway so that when someone comes through the door, omxplayer is triggered…
Get to know the two Raspberry Pi cameras with these three tutorials
Les Pounder has posted a new set of tutorials on the Element 14 website that take you through using both the normal Pi Camera Module and the PiNoIR infra-red camera. The three tutorials are: Taking a picture, Creating a time-lapse…
Get started with the Internet of Things on the Raspberry Pi
The guys from Soldering Sunday have done a nice Instructable which shows you how to hook up a light-dependent resistor and DHT11 humidity/temperature sensor and take readings from them. The readings are then uploaded to online service ThingSpeak so you can…
Create a realtime security camera with a Raspberry Pi and Parse
Justin Platz and Kevin Gleason from PubNub have published a tutorial that uses the Raspberry Pi camera module to take pictures and then upload them to online service Parse. The program hooks into a PIR sensor to detect movement then…
New line following video tutorial from the Raspberry Pi Guy
Matt Timmons-Brown continues his long-running series about robots with episode 3. This episode covers setting up your 4tronix Pi2Go Lite robot to follow a black line on a white background. As usual, Matt’s video is clear and informative and he’s…
RasPiO Duino add-on board for the Raspberry Pi gets first video tutorial
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV promised in his RasPiO Kickstarter campaign that he would produce a series of video tutorials for the RasPiO Duino board. The RasPiO Duino board is like having an Arduino plugged into your GPIO pins and is great…