Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
Category: Tutorials
Use WordPress to host your own website on the Raspberry Pi
Instructables user dbrad5683 has written a tutorial that shows you how to install PHP, Apache, MySQL and WordPress so that you can host your own website on the Pi. It’s pretty straightforward. I wouldn’t personally use Apache or MySQL as they’re a bit heavy…
Raspberry Pi powered ultrasonic sensing Minion Fart Gun triggering machine
Paul Weeks has taken his Pi, hooked it up to an ultrasonic sensor and then created a LEGO contraption that fires a Minion Fart Gun when the Pi detects someone is near. It sounds utterly mad and stupid and… well,…
The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
David Taylor has written a comprehensive (and possibly bewildering) guide to setting up the Raspberry Pi as an NTP server (and therefore getting the correct time on your Pi). He uses various methods including a USB GPS receiver and also,…
Access your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world with Weaved
Weaved is based in America and is a portal that can be used to access your Pi from anywhere in the world. You sign up for an account (which is free, as far as I can tell, but may have…
Running Ubuntu Snappy Core on Raspberry Pi
Ferdinand Thommes has written a guide to installing and using the Ubuntu Snappy Core distro on the Pi. It’s only a small guide but it shows you how to update Snappy and also how to roll it back if the…
Build your own weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Taking his inspiration from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station, Kevin Kingsbury has taken a lot of components and built his own. The station includes a wind speed gauge, a wind direction finder, temperature, humidity, pressure and light sensors and a…
Android on the Raspberry Pi 2?
Someone has been working on porting Android 5.1 (Lollipop) to the Raspberry Pi. It only runs on the Pi 2 (due to the different processor) and I’m not sure how much of it is functional. I’ve not had time to…
Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Make your own Raspberry Pi powered mobile phone
Tyler Spadgenske has written an Instructable that shows you how to create your own mobile phone using a Raspberry Pi A+. He 3D-prints a case for the phone and then fills that case with components including an Adafruit FONA board (which…