Chris Mobberley has been looking at PostgreSQL and has found a simple way to get up-and-running. Read about it here
Category: Tutorials
Call your parent with the #RaspberryPi
Andy Fundinger from Plivo was spurred on by his experiences at PyCon 2013 and has experimented with his Pi by creating a rather neat 4-button arrangement that can be used by a child to contact their parents. It’s quite a…
Scratch tutorial videos from BCS/RSoE – good for #RaspberryPi
The British Computer Society and Royal Society of Edinburgh have developed a series of video tutorials for the Scratch programming language. Well worth looking at if you’re just starting out or want to learn more (there are intermediate videos as…
Install MongoDB on your #RaspberryPi
Chris Mobberley has written a tutorial on getting MongoDB (a NoSQL database server) up and running on your Pi. Read it here
#RaspberryPi and camera module together to make a security camera
Christoph Buenger has written an extensive tutorial on creating a surveillance camera using the Pi and the camera module and Motion, the motion-detection software that gave people such difficulties. He’s done the sensible thing and linked out to the Foundation…
Create an iBeacon from a #RaspberryPi
James Nebeker and David G. Young over at Radius Networks have developed a way to use a Pi and a Bluetooth LE dongle to create a bluetooth beacon similar to Apple’s iBeacon. If you don’t know what an iBeacon is (I didn’t!)…
Backup, Format & Clone your SD card
Oscar Liang has posted a short tutorial on the options for backing up, formatting and copying your SD card. Read it here
Stream Video from the #RaspberryPi camera to a web browsers
Miguel Grinberg has written a couple of tutorials that use mjpg-streamer to stream images from the camera module. Apparently this works across all browsers including iOS and Android. Here is the initial post and here is a more detailed post on…
Cross-compiling Qt Apps for #RaspberryPi with Visual Studio
This is a bit of fringe interest so I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s for you or not! Tutorial: Cross-compiling Qt Apps for Raspberry Pi with Visual Studio.
Using the BerryClip with Scratch and the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins’ great little expansion board the BerryClip is controllable via Scratch. Graham Taylor from the “Raspberry Pi School” has written a tutorial about this and posted it on his blog. Read about it here