Rotem Tamir has blogged about a way to use your Pi, Firebase, AngularJS and some Python to monitor your home wifi network. It’s a full tutorial and should take about an hour for you to replicate it. Read the tutorial here.
Category: Tutorials
Set-up wifi on your Raspberry Pi from the command line
Richard, the Average Man, has written a straight-forward tutorial that takes you through the process of setting up wifi from the command line. Read how to do it here.
Real-time aircraft tracking with a Raspberry Pi
Pat Whens has posted a tutorial in which you can track aircraft in real-time from your Raspberry Pi using a $10 Software Defined Radio (SDR) dongle. It also uses flightaware.com’s API. You can read more about how to do it…
Push notifications to your phone with a Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for…
An internet of things doorbell with the Raspberry Pi
India-based Arvind Ravulavaru has written a great tutorial that uses Node.js on a Raspberry Pi to create an internet-of-things doorbell. Read the tutorial here and see the video below.
Use an XBox 360 wireless controller with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can…
Use an 8×2 LCD display with your Raspberry Pi
Richard (Average Man) has written a really nice tutorial about using a small 8×2 LCD display with the Pi, using his ProtoCam prototyping board. This is a really great use of the ProtoCam (which is now fully funded on Kickstarter) which…
Stream video from your Raspberry Pi camera module
I know I’ve covered streaming before, but this is just a reminder to myself that the best method I’ve found is using Silvan Melchoir’s RaspiMJPEG which he has combined with a web interface (pictured). All the instructions are available on the Raspberry…
New video series on Raspberry Pi robots
Matthew Timmons-Brown, “The Raspberry Pi Guy”, has just started a new series on robotics on his YouTube channel. Matt’s always been a strong proponent of using robots in education, both in schools and at home, so this comes as so…
Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR scanner
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves…