Russ Sanderlin has written a comprehensive tutorial for getting a PHP/NGINX stack working with WordPress on the Pi. Read it here. Apparently NGINX works better than Apache, particularly under high loads (although I’ve never had a problem with Apache) and is…
Category: Tutorials
Neopixel LED temperature gauge with Raspberry Pi
Ismail Uddin of scienceexposure.com has written an in-depth tutorial in which he uses a thermistor to track temperature changes and a Neopixel ring to display a temperature gauge. It uses various libraries and work already out there and contains instructions as…
Control the Unicorn HAT with the Skywriter HAT on the Raspberry Pi
I’ve been playing around with a recently-purchased Unicorn HAT and I was just wondering if it was possible to do this! Lo-and-behold this blog post came up in a general search for Unicorn HAT stuff. Sandy MacDonald has used a…
Piezo ring tones with the Raspberry Pi
Roberto Marquez has written a tutorial over on the Adafruit site to generate ring tones on the Pi and play them via a simple piezo buzzer. Nice beginners project that anyone should be able to do. Read it here.
RealVNC and the Raspberry Pi
As announced at the Big Birthday Party, RealVNC is now available for the Raspberry Pi. The software allows you to remotely connect to the desktop of the Pi via a remote PC, Mac, Linux box, Android, iOS or Chrome device.…
Solve the Monty Hall problem with Python
Trevor Appleton has written another of his great tutorials in which he takes you through a Python program. This time it’s to solve the “three doors” or “Monty Hall” problem. You are presented with three doors and have to try…
Raspberry Pi Game Gear
Phil Herlihy has written a tutorial for Adafruit in which he takes a Sega Game Gear handheld console and fits it out with all kinds of stuff, including a LiPo battery to power it and, of course, a Raspberry Pi…
PiCamera worksheets for the Raspberry Pi
Stephen Blythe has built on work done by Carl Monk to create some worksheets for the camera module. The worksheets use the picamera Python library and are very simple and easy-to-follow. Take a look here.
Installing Snappy Ubuntu Core in Raspberry Pi 2
People were surprised when the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched that there was a new operating system on the block, in addition to the existing mainstream Raspbian offering. That new OS is Snappy Ubuntu Core. It is a (very) cut-down…
Load custom maps into Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft
Simon Johnson has written a brief tutorial on how to import a custom map into Minecraft: Pi Edition. It’s pretty straightforward and you’ll soon have things like night-time and animals. This doesn’t turn it into ‘survival mode’ but it does mean…