Good, well-balanced review of the pros and cons of the camera over at TweakTown. There’s also a giveaway for those of you with camera modules already – just take a picture with it and enter the draw for a free…
Category: Tutorials
Game of Life programming tutorial for the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on creating Conway’s Game of Life using Python and Pygame. This is a great idea for schools as it teaches children programming in general, algorithms, a little graphics and has a good, visual result.…
Rescued pet bird gets a #RaspberryPi powered surveillance system
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully…
Run the #RaspberryPi from an external hard drive
Ted Hale has looked at the work done by Foundation Forum member Rattus to “boot” the Pi from a hard drive and done an in-depth step-by-step tutorial on how to do it. Running from a hard drive, rather than the…
Run the #RaspberryPi on 3.3V of power
Dave Akerman knows all about power, and how to use as little as possible to power the Pi. He has written a tutorial into how to do this. Now, please note that this will void your warranty and possibly your…
Tweeting coffee machine using #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov wanted his Raspberry Pi to tweet whenever his coffee machine was ready to be used. So, he decided to use a light-dependent resistor to monitor the ‘ready’ LED on the coffee machine. It’s a bit low-tech in that…
#RaspberryPi GPIO cheat sheet
Alex over at RasPi.TV has been doing a series on the GPIO. His latest post is a quick-reference cheat sheet for using the GPIO from the popular Pi language Python. Take a look at the cheat sheet here
Digital vintage radio using a #RaspberryPi
Florian Amrhein has been messing around with a decades-old Philips tube radio. He’s put a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other stuff inside the ultra-retro casing and created an IP radio. He’s blogged in-depth about it. Read about the project…
Using a professional VPN service to evade geographical restrictions with a #RaspberryPi
Arc Software has blogged an enormous post about using the VPN service “Hide My Ass” to protect and encrypt your internet activity when using your Pi. The service isn’t free, but there are a lot of benefits including getting around any…
Build your first game using Scratch on the #RaspberryPi
TechRadar have just published an in-depth tutorial on creating your first game using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi. Read the tutorial here