Pance Cavkovski has written a nice tutorial on programming a touchscreen interface, using the PiTFT screen, using JavaFX 8. His project involves an NFC plug-in board which scans your access card and then prompts you to enter a code, thus…
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Automatically re-connect wifi on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Bain has written a brief tutorial that will help you to set-up an automatically-running script which will detect if your wifi connection is dead and then, if so, restart the service (thus attempting to re-connect). Read the tutorial here.
Animated GIF Raspberry Pi picture frame
Here’s another project using the PiTFT from Adafruit. Timothy Reese has written a tutorial over at Adafruit in which he hacks together some off-the-shelf components and creates a rather nice picture frame. He then uses Chromium in kiosk mode to…
Handheld Linux terminal using a Raspberry Pi
Chris Robinson has taken a Pi, a PiTFT screen, some hard drive enclosures and some other small components and created an ultra-portable handheld Linux terminal. It’s very nifty and it’s been a while since I’ve seen something so small and,…
Raspberry Pi aeroponics system
Instructables user darkstar1 has documented his project which uses a fogger/mister machine and a PowerSwitch Tail II to create a Pi-controlled aeroponics system to grow plants from cuttings. You can read how he did it here.
Replicate multiple SD cards at once with dcfldd
This is a handy, albeit brief, tutorial and explanation from Richard Hayler in which he uses the enhanced Linux dd utility dcfldd to write an SD card image to multiple SD cards at once. Read how to do it here. Very…
Use a Raspberry Pi and a cheap dongle to track aeroplanes
London-based Sopwith has taken a DVB-T dongle, plugged it into his Raspberry Pi and used software packages and scripts he has written himself to create an aeroplane tracker that plots onto a map. Read how to do it by viewing…
Live streaming Raspberry Pi dog camera
Ewa Karweta has taken a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a bunch of components to provide power and put them into a dog back pack. He’s then kindly asked his pooch to wear it so that he can get a…
Make your own Nokia 5110 Raspberry Pi add-on board
Richard Saville (Average Man) has used one of his ProtoPal prototyping boards to create a board that houses a Nokia 5110 LCD display. He’s written a tutorial about assembling the board and installing the necessary software to use it. Great idea…
1981 portable VCR Raspberry Pi media centre
MisterM has taken a 1981 Sharp VC-2300H portable VCR unit, refurbished it, stripped it out and fitted a Raspberry Pi inside to use it as a media centre. He’s retro-fitted an old VHS cassette tape with a USB hub which…