Leo White has written an article over at Linux User in which he takes a Big Trak, a few other components (like a motor driver board) and converts it to use a Raspberry Pi. Leo’s an expert on hacking Big Traks (I’ve…
Category: Tutorials
Turn a Raspberry Pi PiTFT into a digital frame with a USB stick
Spencer Organ has taken a Pi, the PiTFT and a USB stick, merged them all together and created a small digital photo frame. This is a great use for the PiTFT (although it doesn’t use the touchscreen… yet) and I…
PS4 with a Raspberry Pi ambilight
EvilBoris has posted a video online showing the Raspberry Pi working as an ambilight server to give environmental lighting effects behind a television. You can see the video below: You can get the kit he used from Lightberry – he…
Control motors with your Raspberry Pi and this video tutorial
Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. He uses a RyanTeck Motor…
Motorised Raspberry Pi webcam with Ben Heck
Ben Heck, celebrity hacker, has taken a Pi, an Arduino and a servo and created a webcam which can be moved according to commands sent to it via a chat app. Watch his video below: Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Shop…
Live streaming the Raspberry Pi camera to a Windows PC
Brynlea Gibson has done a comprehensive video tutorial on getting video streaming working with a piece of software called gstreamer. It’s been a while since I’ve showcased a tutorial on this subject and some of them have become out-of-date, so…
Focusing the Raspberry Pi camera without breaking it
Thanks to RasPi.Today for spotting this one Although the Raspberry Pi Foundation has covered this topic here, George Wang has created a video with what is arguably a better way of doing the same job of focusing the lens on…
Assembly guide for the Pi Supply on/off switch for the Raspberry Pi
The Average Man has done a great assembly and set-up guide for the Pi Supply power on/off switch. You can read the guide here and you can purchase the on/off switch here.
Car diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi and PiTFT
Paul Bartek has done an extensive tutorial on using the PiTFT to display data from a car’s OBD-11 port and also a video which you can see below.
Wooden handheld Raspberry Pi
Instructables user fernseher1 has written a full tutorial on creating a handheld Raspberry Pi using a wooden case and an analogue screen. Read it here.