Samuel Matos has developed a self-balancing robot and has now added a line-following ability to it. You can follow his progress, including a lot of details about the build and algorithms used, on his blog – http://roboticssamy.blogspot.pt/
Category: Tutorials
#RaspberryPi temperature data recorder with a DS18B20 sensor
Bernhard Suter has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the DS18B20 temperature sensor working with the Pi. It includes the Python code to interrogate the sensor. Read more here
Plan your travel on the #RaspberryPi using GraphHopper
Peter Karussell, over on dzone, has blogged about using the open source Java software GraphHopper to do road routing on the Pi. Just imagine if you could combine this with a touch screen and a GPS module – Pi-powered TomTom!…
Fixing a broken SD card slot on the #RaspberryPi
Nice tutorial over at smstextblog – how to cleanly and neatly repair your Pi’s SD card slot with a £3 replacement. As he says, much better than ditching the Pi! Read how he did it here
Creating a robot with the #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Arnaud Boudou has written up his project to create a robot (RaspiDuinoRover) using a Raspberry Pi hooked up to an Arduino and some other bits and pieces. Included in this project is a DIY light source for the camera. Great…
New blog follows a beginner with his #RaspberryPi
Matt Gaunt, a Chrome developer at Google, has just got his Raspberry Pi and he’s decided to blog about his experiences. His first tasks? Setting up wi-fi and updating the firmware. Read it here
Turn a #RaspberryPi into an oscilloscope
Instructables user ‘tnkrmnz’ has written a tutorial on using a MSO-28 Oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi to create a portable unit that you can connect to with your smartphone. Part of the tutorial includes turning the unit into a wifi…
Create your own animation studio with a #RaspberryPi – brilliant blog post!
This is an outstanding piece of work by Trevor Appleton. He has converted his Raspberry Pi into an animation studio by writing a piece of software (with a GUI) to take pictures with the camera module and then to string…
#RaspberryPi camera with timelapse functionality
Articles from Jason Birch don’t come along that often but when they do they’re always worth reading. This time, he’s created a camera with a screen and buttons to take pictures & video and do time lapse photography. Read more…
Use a piezo buzzer to create sound with the #RaspberryPi GPIO
Ben Miller has written a great beginners’ article about hooking up a small piezo buzzer to the Pi’s GPIO pins to simply create a sound. He’s using C to do it, which is a shame as I think Python would…