Hussam Al-Hertani on his blog Hertaville has written a tutorial and given sample code for controlling the GPIO from within the Qt4 programming language. You need to install Qt in order to do it, but all that’s covered by the…
Category: Tutorials
Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice, basic tutorial article from Rob Zwetsloot over at Linux User magazine. It shows you how to get started mining Bitcoins natively on the Pi. Read it here.
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a wifi hotspot with an Edimax dongle
I must’ve missed this one before. Dave Conroy has written a tutorial on turning your Pi into a wifi hotspot using the venerable Edimax EW-7811Un adapter dongle (which I reviewed here). Read the tutorial here.
Another cool #RaspberryPi Gameboy mod
Raspberry Pi Forum user Microbyte has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed a Raspberry Pi and a composite screen in to create a handheld retro gaming machine. I know this has been done before, but this is a neat build…
Building a Zumo #RaspberryPi robot
Christopher Barnatt from ExplainingComputers.com has created a video in which he puts together a robot based on the Pololu Zumo chassis and a L298N H-bridge motor controller. Watch the video below:
Novelty radio becomes working computer with a #RaspberryPi
“Strider19” had an old novelty radio shaped like a computer. He dug out a ruler, measured it and worked out that he could fit a Raspberry Pi into the case. He grabbed a small composite monitor off Amazon to use as…
#RaspberryPi Rain Box
Instructables user Adum24 loves the sound of rain. So, he decided to build himself a box to play rain sounds. As you do. He thought a Raspberry Pi would be perfect for this so he got together some cheap powered…
Handy #RaspberryPi pinout has been updated for the B+
I guess if you’re not interested in the B+, this is a pretty slow news day! Phil Howard (@gadgetoid) created a brilliant interactive pinout for the Raspberry Pi some time ago. He has now updated it to take into account…
Use BOINC on the #RaspberryPi for a good cause
BOINC is a distributed computing architecture which takes a project, like interpreting data from the Large Hadron Collider, and allows you to contribute to it. You can put the resources of the Raspberry Pi towards these projects by running a…
Install Ruby on Rails on the #RaspberryPi
Ruby on Rails is very popular as a web development language. Sam Berson has written a comprehensive tutorial to get you started on installing it. Then it’s just a case of finding examples online to get you informed as to…