Malcolm Maclean is developing an eBook for the Raspberry Pi and it’s available for you to read online. One of the sections of the book is all about the brilliant little BMP180 sensor (pictured above). This sensor, which replaces the larger…
Category: Tutorials
Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner
Mario Lukas’ girlfriend is an archaeologist. Part of her job is to catalogue relics from digs and Mario deduced that what she could do with is a handheld, portable 3D scanner. So, he decided to build one using a Raspberry…
Sort-of boot the Raspberry Pi from a USB flash drive
Here’s an Instructable from “techno guy” with a misleading title. It teaches you how to set-up the Pi to start up from a USB drive which contains the main operating system image. Granted, you’ll still need the SD card in the…
Disable wi-fi power saving on the Raspberry Pi
Occasionally when using a wi-fi dongle on the Pi, you may find that you lose connection when you’re not actively using the keyboard. This is because the dongle goes into ‘power saving’ mode and disconnects. This is obviously undesirable. Matt over…
Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer
The Ruiz Brothers have published a new tutorial on the Adafruit website. This tutorial shows you how to create a handheld Raspberry Pi computer using a 3.5″ PiTFT screen, a mini wireless keyboard and a LIPO battery. It’s rather nifty and…
Control LEDs with the Explorer HAT and an 8-bit shift register on the Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written an excellent explanation and tutorial for using a shift register with the Pimoroni Explorer HAT on top of the Raspberry Pi. It allows you to control 8 LEDs using just 3 output pins on the HAT,…
Run Java EE apps on the Raspberry Pi with Payara Micro
Payara Micro is a fantastic little Java server that requires no installation to get it running. All you need is Java installed on your Pi (which is default on Raspbian) and a simple command and you’re up and running. It’s…
Distributed file storage with a Ceph cluster on Raspberry Pi
Ceph is a software package that allows you to create a cluster of machines that act as a file store. Using Vess Bakalov’s work on CephPi, Bryn Apperson has written a tutorial that helps you get a Ceph cluster up…
Monitor your broadband speed with Loggly and a Raspberry Pi
Stephen Phillips has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial in which he measures his broadband speed (ping, upload and download) and then sends the data to a free service called Loggly. Really interesting stuff and a great use for an always-connected-via-ethernet-cable…
PIN entry system using a Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni Explorer HAT
Sandy Macdonald has taken a Pimoroni Explorer HAT and used it to create a PIN entry system. At the moment, the entry system lights up some LEDs and makes a buzzer sound, but obviously it could be extended to unlock…