For those of you out there who have the Raspberry Pi B+ and have just bought a Pi 2, you will need to update your existing microSD card on the B+ before you plug it into the Pi 2. This is accomplished…
Category: Tutorials
Build a DeLorean time circuit with a Raspberry Pi
Carl Monk has been busy writing up a project that he has been working on. You, too, can build the DeLorean time circuitry from Back to the Future by following his in-depth tutorial full of wiring diagrams and explanations. Great…
Raspberry Pi 2 outshines the B+ in this multi-threaded performance test
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has written a Python script that tests out the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi 2’s quad-core processor by carrying out sorting operations on a massive list of words. The results are astounding. The Pi 2 clearly beats…
DIY Raspberry Pi VPN/TOR Router
Anonymous browsing is all the rage nowadays, what with government snooping on the increase. Well now you can set up your Raspberry Pi as an anonymous router which shows up as a wireless hotspot which you then connect your desktop or…
DesignSpark Raspberry Pi classroom projects
DesignSpark have published some good-looking resources for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about the GPIO. They are as follows: Program a seven-segment display. Read digital signals and analogue signals (via an A2D chip) and how…
Pi & Bash tutorials released for the Raspberry Pi
A few days ago, I published a review of the Pi & Bash add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Rob Boyle, who created the board, has been in touch – he’s started writing coding tutorials for the P&B and I thought…
Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Scrolling text on the Raspberry Pi Unicorn HAT
Richard Hayler (who wrote an excellent blog post on generating 3D text inside Minecraft) has also written some code which will scroll text across a Unicorn HAT. Read his blog post about it here. You can buy a Unicorn HAT for around…
Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi – See your name in blocks!
Richard Hayler wanted a way to produce Minecraft-themed birthday cards for his sons friends. So, he decided to use Minecraft Pi Edition to it! He wrote a script which takes in the name you want to generate and then pipes…
Mobile Raspberry Pi GPS streamer
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written a tutorial that takes you through the process of using Adafruit’s Ultimate GPS Breakout Board to take readings and then stream them to Initial State’s server using their API to get a…