If you’ve ever wanted to replicate Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S., you can be well on your way with this project. Shubhro Saha and Charlie Marsh from Princeton University have developed an always-on voice-recognition-and-response system called Jasper. It recognises it’s own name…
Category: Tutorials
How to set-up wireless networking on your #RaspberryPi
Christian Cawley over at MakeUseOf.com has written a tutorial on wireless networking. This tutorial is basic stuff for those of you who want to use a wifi dongle to connect to your home or work network. Interestingly, he recommends using a…
New #RaspberryPi Camera Module tutorial series
The Southend-on-Sea based “Average Man” is doing a new tutorial series on the operation of the Raspberry Pi camera module. His first tutorial is all about connecting the camera to the Pi and is ideal for anyone who has just…
Stream from a camera on the #RaspberryPi to an Android phone
Here’s a quick one. Someone’s figured out how to use gstreamer to stream to an Android phone running a custom app. They’ve only got it working using a USB camera at the moment, but I’d imagine it would be quite…
Change the command-line font size on your #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins has blogged about two ways to change the size of the font on your Pi. The first uses a piece of software called dpkg-reconfigure and the other involves manually editing a configuration file. If you’ve got a low-resolution…
How to use the MMA7455 accelerometer with the #RaspberryPi
Zach Igielman, a long-time CamJammer, has just started to do video tutorials. His first one is all about using an accelerometer with the Pi and he’s chosen to use the MMA7455 which is fairly easy and cheap to get hold…
Control your #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote
Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, has done another tutorial video. This time he tackles the complexities (or simplicities) of getting a Wiimote running in conjunction with your Pi. It’s very simple and he’s done some example code so…
Installing Oracle JDK 8 on the #RaspberryPi
Rahul Kar has written a very short tutorial on installing the version 8 Java Development Kit onto the Pi. Read it here
Vocal intruder warning system now takes pictures with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox previously posted about his motion-detecting, noise-making intruder warning system. He’s now added a camera module to the project and it takes a picture of the intruder. He’s used the picamera Python library to do this and it’s a…
Copy files to/from your #RaspberryPi remotely
Trevor Appleton has done a nice tutorial on using Filezilla to transfer files to/from your Raspberry Pi by using the SFTP protocol. Beats the hell out of using USB sticks and swapping files that way! Also beats setting up an…