Alex continues his series on the GPIO by looking at using inputs and outputs together. His insight into granny stairlifts are particularly enlightening! 🙂 Read the article here
Category: Tutorials
RasPi.TV runs series on the #RaspberryPi GPIO
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV is currently running a series on the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. It’s great to see this kind of blogging and it’s especially useful for beginners or those who need to know why you need that pull-down resistor, for…
Reading Car Diagnostics with a #RaspberryPi and an OBD-II adapter
Martin O’Hanlon read about someone reading diagnostics from a motorbike and decided to adapt the work to read OBD-II information from his car. He found an adapter that converted the car port to USB and then created a Python script…
Connect your #RaspberryPi to a Motorola Lapdock
Dave, at DaveDen, has done a great guide to the simple way of connecting your Pi up to a Motorola Lapdock. Read the full details here
PiBot: Build your own #RaspberryPi powered robot
Wolfram Donat has written a 40-page guide to creating a small, mobile robot. It’s available as a paperback and a Kindle e-book. Here’s a link to the Kindle version.
Issue 14 of The MagPi published for #RaspberryPi owners
The July 2013 issue of the much-improved Raspberry Pi magazine “The MagPi” is now out. Star-of-the-show is the camera module which is treated to an article by Broadcom’s James Hughes who wrote the software that drives the camera. There are…
Automate plant tending with PiPlanter and a #RaspberryPi
Devon at esologic.com has created a system to maintain, monitor and tend his plants, more specifically the moisture level in the soil. He has written an extensive (and I mean really extensive) blog post on the project including code that will take…
A #RaspberryPi HD camcorder using the camera module
Alex Eames, from RasPi.tv, has put together a brilliant project with a model A Raspberry Pi and the camera module (along with lots of other bits). He’s created a camcorder (with GPIO buttons) with a screen and the ability to…
Whistle-stop guide to #RaspberryPi NOOBS
The New-Out-Of-Box-System for the Pi was released a few weeks ago. You can download it here. Matthew Manning from Rapsberry Pi IV Beginners has done a very quick guide to how to use it:
Facial recognition with OpenCV and the camera module on the #RaspberryPi
Pierre Raufast’s work with OpenCV has been featured over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog. He has used the open-source real-time image processing library to interface to the camera board, something which was previously seen as unlikely. His seven-part tutorial…