Trevor Appleton has done a great work-through and tutorial on creating the game of Pong using pygame and Python. He literally goes through it line-by-line explaining things. As he points out, Pong may seem a simple game but it has…
Category: Tutorials
Assembling an RTK motor controller board for the #RaspberryPi
Paul Brown has done an excellent guide to putting together RyanTeck’s motor controller board. Lots of photographs of how to solder the board up. Read his tutorial here.
Assembling the Fish Dish board for the #RaspberryPi
Jamie over at The Pi Hut needed some assembly instructions doing for some of his products. So, he tweeted for volunteers and sent out some bits and pieces to various people. The Average Man volunteered to put together the Fish…
Use an analog joystick with the #RaspberryPi and an MCP3008
Matt Hawkins’ site Raspberry Pi Spy has been a constant source of reference for me when creating the Picorder, my box-with-sensors. Many of those sensors provide analog outputs (which I read using an MCP3008) and Matt has now written a…
Mount a USB thumb drive on a #RaspberryPi
Scott Kildall has written a brief Instructable with details of mounting USB pen drives, and other USB storage devices, onto a Raspberry Pi. Mounting, in case you didn’t know, simply means telling the operating system how to use a storage…
Program the ATtiny85 from the #RaspberryPi
Instructables member prb3333 has written an extensive tutorial (with code) on programming an ATtiny85 microcontroller chip from the Pi. You have to do some compilation (of avrdude) first and wire the chip up in a certain way on a breadboard.…
Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to…
Making time lapse videos with the #RaspberryPi camera and a Windows machine
The Average Man has done another one of his camera tutorials. This time he’s covered time lapse photography and using a Windows machine to stitch them together into a video. Read more here.
Building a #RaspberryPi VPN server
Lauren Orsini has been doing Pi stuff again and has written a comprehensive tutorial to setting up a Pi as a VPN server using OpenVPN. Full instructions on how to do it are available over at readwrite.com.
How to take basic photos and video with your #RaspberryPi camera module
The Average Man continues his series on the camera module with a tutorial on using the raspistill and raspivid commands to take stills and video. Read how to do it here