Alex Eames has been busy recently – lots of blog posts, which is good because RasPi.TV is still one of the best Raspberry Pi sites out there. Now, he has written a great tutorial about a piece of software called…
Category: Tutorials
This month’s Linux User & Developer is a #RaspberryPi extravaganza
Issue 129 of Linux User and Developer magazine is a great buy for Raspberry Pi owners. It features the following articles: A 22-page special covering 10 Raspberry Pi projects “made easy” including: Media centre Portable internet radio Torrent client Time-lapse…
Monitor the temperature of your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat little programming project. Fechu has written a set of scripts to allow you to monitor the operating temperature of your Pi and then see it, via a web browser in a fancy graph form. Pick up the scripts…
Motion-detecting security camera tutorial for #RaspberryPi
Foundation forum member nazargren has written a step-by-step tutorial for creating a Raspberry Pi security camera with the cameram module and using the mmalcam modification of motion. Really worth checking this out if you want to do something similar. And no,…
More port expander goodness with #RaspberryPi Spy
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy is also ‘at it’ with an MCP23017 port expander and has done a lower-level tutorial dealing with the smbus library rather than WiringPi2. Read it here
Using the MCP23017 port expander with WiringPi2 on the #RaspberryPi (continued)
Alex is continuing his series on using the MCP23017 port expander to give you lots of lovely extra GPIO ports. Read the third part here or read the first two parts here.
#RaspberryPi car camera overlaid with OBD data
Martin O’Hanlon, whose work & blog I greatly respect, has created a car dash camera with a Pi and camera module. He has now worked out how to overlay a subtitle file generated from an OBD-II feed from his car.…
Using a #RaspberryPi to control USB traffic light
Marcel Birkner has written a tutorial about getting a USB traffic light working via the Pi. Read more here
Run a Python script on boot on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a nice little tutorial on using ‘cron’ to run a script whenever the Pi is started up or rebooted. Read here
Create a camera with a #RaspberryPi camera module
Les Pounder, who wrote the excellent Raspberry Jam coverage in this month’s Linux Format, has written a straightforward tutorial for creating a push-button operated camera with camera module and it’s bendy wendy cable. Read it here