William Knowles wanted to create a penetration testing tool and ended up using a Pi. It has since ended up being a data collection device in his Industrial Control System research as a packet capture device. Read here how he’s…
Category: Tutorials
Setting Up LIRC on the #RaspberryPi
Alex Bain has written a great tutorial, and also some supplementary articles, on using an infrared controller with the Raspberry Pi. It uses LIRC and includes examples on how to do the configuration and read the commands sent from the controller.…
Set up a wireless access point with a #RaspberryPi
This isn’t the first time I’ve featured a tutorial on setting up a wireless access point, but it’s such a useful thing to be able to do that I have no qualms about covering it again. This time, it’s a…
Poor man’s #RaspberryPi backup server
Frank has written a comprehensive tutorial on using your Raspberry Pi as a backup server, including making a case to hold everything in. Some of the scripts are in French (but should be easy enough to understand anyway) and it’s…
Set up the Minecraft API on the #RaspberryPi
You can never have too much Minecraft hacking on a Pi. This is a universal constant 🙂 Seriously, though, one of the main things we’ve learnt from the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam is that Minecraft is incredibly popular. We sold out…
BBC Radio on the #RaspberryPi
Stephen Phillips has written a comprehensive tutorial on using mpc and mpd to play BBC radio streams. Read his blog here.
Monitor #RaspberryPi system temperature with seven segment displays
The Average Man has begun a series of posts in which he will build a seven-segment temperature display for the Pi. To start with he’s building it on a breadboard but eventually it will be a removal package based on…
Mirror, Mirror on the #RaspberryPi
Michael Teeuw has created a rather stylish magic mirror effect with a Raspberry Pi. You have to read how he did it to believe it – it’s a fantastic project. He’s done a complete tutorial on how he did it…
Program Flappy Bird (Fla-Pi Bird) in Scratch using a #RaspberryPi
Picademy graduate (and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator) Allen Heard has recently recreated the famous Flappy Bird game in Scratch. He has now put all his lesson plans up on Github for everyone to share. Take a look at his blog post…
Plot data graphically on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, wanted to plot some data on a graph. He’s managed to do it using a piece of software called “gnuplot”. Take a look at what he did over on his blog.