Pete has done this great tutorial and list of instructions/code to create an speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi downloads headlines from the internet and then plays them back with whatever is connected to the 3.5mm audio…
Category: Tutorials
Using a Hover gesture board with the Raspberry Pi
The team behind Hover, a gesture input device, have put together a tutorial, which uses a Pi in conjunction with an Arduino Leonardo, which guides you through using a Hover board to be a controller for PiMame/PiPlay. Take a look at…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a security camera
The Average Man has used a distro image called MotionPie and a Nwazet Pi/camera case to create a security camera set-up for his father. It’s a rather neat solution to a common security problem. Read how he did it here.
Control servos with the Raspberry Pi
Rob Zwetsloot at Linux User and Developer magazine has written a tutorial on controlling servos. He uses the Adafruit servo controller board to do this and he’s included the Fritzing diagram and code samples to help you replicate his work. Take…
Light a Single Neopixel from the Raspberry Pi’s UART pin
It must be Neopixel day or something. In this tutorial, Josh teaches us how to light up a single Neopixel using the Raspberry Pi’s UART TX pin and a piece of software called “neouart”. Read the tutorial here if you’d…
Temperature display with a Raspberry Pi and Nokia LCD
Bart Bania has taken a Pi, a Nokia 5110 LCD screen and a one-wire temperature sensor, mashed them together and created a nice little temperature sensor. You can see circuit diagrams and get access to the code by visiting his…
Pygame basics on the Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Blythe has written a great tutorial on how to get started with Pygame, particularly with reference to the PiTFT mini touchscreen. Lots of code examples here, including how to display the output from a potentiometer in a graphical format. Take…
Licence plate recognition on the Raspberry Pi
Luka Gabrić discovered an open source framework for doing licence plate recognition called OpenALPR and decided to test it out on the Pi. He’s written a blog post on the software you’ll need to give it a go yourself and you can see…
Reset a forgotten password on your Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins has worked out a way to reset a forgotten password on the Pi by editing a file on the boot partition of the SD card. So, all you need to do is to take the SD card, edit…
New visual programming environment for the Raspberry Pi – Wyliodrin
For those of you who don’t like to write actual text-based code, and instead prefer a visual programming environment, there are only a few options out there, most notably Scratch and NodeRED. There is a new player in the arena…