Joey Bernard over at Linux User magazine has done a nice piece on the GPIO, explaining how it works and how to use Python to interact with it. Read it here
Category: Tutorials
WildFly cluster on multiple #RaspberryPi servers
Arun Gupta has continued his work with the WildFly Java application server. He’s now written three posts on the subject: Setting up and configuring WildFly on the Pi, setting it up on two Pis using managed domain mode and now…
Program Conway’s Game of Life in Python on the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton’s written a great tutorial on creating the famous Conway’s Game of Life on the Pi. I won’t go into the technicalities of it, apart from to say it uses Pygame, but this is a great exercise to do…
Stream a webcam over the internet with the #RaspberryPi
Jacob Salmela has written a comprehensive tutorial on using a USB webcam and mpjg-streamer to stream a live video stream over the net. He’s even covered routing the traffic through your home router. Definitely worth a look if you have…
A tweet-controlled RGB LCD display on the #RaspberryPi
Jeremy Blythe has done a comprehensive tutorial over on tuts+ in which he controls an Adafruit RGB LCD screen from the Pi and displays different tweets in different colours depending on content. Read it here
Beautiful #RaspberryPi cluster
Continuing the recent spate of artistic projects using the Pi, David Guill has created a “supercomputer” using 40 Raspberry Pis. His project called for the following: Build a model supercomputer, which structurally mimics a modern supercomputer. All hardware required for…
Use a Nokia 5110/3310 display with the #RaspberryPi
Adafruit has published a tutorial on using their library for this small Nokia screen with the Pi. Read it here
A #RaspberryPi mini boombox
ThisOldGeek has taken a large Peets Coffee tin and filled it with electronics to create a boom box audio system. He’s used a Vacuum Fluorescent Display inside it to display what is currently being played and a USB sound card and amplifier…
Learn to code with Sonic Pi and the #RaspberryPi
Over at Linux User & Developer, Rob Zwetsloot has written a mini-tutorial for Sonic Pi. It deals with making sure you have the software installed and then helps you to write a “mini concert” in the language. Read it here.
Using the Wolfson audio card with the #RaspberryPi
Over on Element14, Tim (aka packetgeek) has been road-testing a Wolfson audio card. He’s been working towards creating a Softsqueeze client with the card and he’s fully documented the procedure. Read it here. Although the review score (54/60) is high,…