Here’s an interesting Instructable. It’s a 3D-printed radio unit with a Pi inside that reads from a Google Sheet online to determine when it should play. It’s a lovely case, but I expect you can find something pre-fabricated if you…
Category: Tutorials
Plot data from an Arduino on the Raspberry Pi with Python
Rick Sellens has posted up some simple code to plot data returned from an Arduino using Python and the pyplot library. I’ve asked him to also post up the code from the Arduino so we can see both sides of…
Push a button to take a picture and tweet it with the Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written an excellent tutorial in which he builds a simple circuit with a push button and a couple of LEDs to trigger the camera module to take a photograph. The photograph is then auto-uploaded to Twitter. Read more…
Create a digital compass with the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the BerryIMU. One of the three sensors on the board is a magnetometer, with which you can create a digital compass. Here’s how to do it in C.
Run ASP.NET on the Raspberry Pi with Mono and OWIN
Jan Tielens has written up his procedure for installing and using Mono on the Raspberry Pi, giving you a low-power ASP.NET platform. He uses Arch Linux as the operating system, so you may want to decide if it’s right for…
Create a Raspberry Pi cluster – video series
Rasim Muratovic has started a YouTube series on the creation of a Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. In this part, he’s taking care of the physical set-up and plugging the Pis into a router. Future parts will deal with installing Raspbian on…
Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called ‘matchbox-desktop’. It is a very minimal environment but works well with small touchscreens such as the PiTFT or the PiScreen. Read the…
Build your own mobile phone with the Raspberry Pi
Adafruit have published a new tutorial written by David Hunt who created the PiPhone, a Raspberry Pi-powered mobile, or cell, phone. It uses a lot of components, all available via Adafruit, but it’s a stunning piece of hacking. Read more…
Time Machine backups to the Raspberry Pi
Phil, over at the Kingdom of Philtopia, has written a tutorial that shows you how to use Samba on the Pi to act as a backup storage device for Apple’s popular Time Machine software. Read it here.
DIY Raspberry Pi GPIO LEDs and switches board
A blogger at PiecesOfPi.co.uk decided that he (or, indeed, she) wanted to build a GPIO board for themselves. So, they’ve taken a piece of stripboard, some LEDs and a few switches and done just that. He’s posted all the diagrams so you…