Tony DiCola has written a tutorial for the Adafruit Learning System in which he uses a Pi and a camera module, together with a nice wooden box and servo, to create a box which only opens if it recognises the…
Category: Tutorials
Set up a private Git server on your #RaspberryPi
Scott Kildall has written a full-length Instructable tutorial on setting up a Git version control server on your Raspberry Pi. Read it here.
Make a portable camera with your #RaspberryPi and a lot of DIY know-how
This project isn’t for the faint-hearted. It’s from Adafruit and needs a lot of tinkering and crafting to get a polished end result. It uses the Pi and the PiCam and some laser cut parts to construct a very neat…
Monitor your aquarium with the #RaspberryPi
Using a combination of the Pi and a waterproof temperature sensor (and some other bits), Laura Orsini has created a water temperature-sensing project to monitor her aquarium. She has kindly written a full tutorial on how to do it. Read…
Night time wildlife camera with the #RaspberryPi and the PiNoIR
Paul Brown has taken his Pi, hooked up a PIR motion sensor and plugged in a PiNoIR camera. He’s waterproofed it for use outside and then run some tests to detect movement in his house at night (don’t worry –…
Make a buzzer sound with the #RaspberryPi
Matt Manning continues his series on simple GPIO interaction with this video showing how to wire up and program a buzzer with Python. Watch the video here
Interpret AirPi readings on your #RaspberryPi
Fred Sonnenwald has been experimenting with Tom Hartley’s AirPi and has written an excellent article on how to interpret the readings you get from the various different sensors. It’s quite a mathematical article, but he goes very in-depth on it.…
New series on Python and the GPIO from #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Matt Manning is busy writing a series on using the GPIO pins from Python. This exciting series will use a variety of different components wired up on a breadboard to do projects including the following: Turning on LEDs Blinking LEDs…
Installing Hadoop on a #RaspberryPi
Hadoop is a framework, written in Java, for handling large datasets. According to the Apache website: The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple…
Cloud data logger with the #RaspberryPi
The guys over at Fluentd have written a short tutorial post showing how you can use the fluentd software to send statistical data to the Treasure Data cloud storage/analysis api. It doesn’t give very much help in terms of integrating it with…