Mark Williams has been working on a two-wheeled balancing robot using a Raspberry Pi to do some impressive calculations. It uses an accelerometer to work out angles and gyros to compensate for overbalance. Here’s a video of the robot in…
Category: Tutorials
Control water consumption from a #RaspberryPi
M2M Application Platform Carriots has written a tutorial about a water consumption meter involving their software, a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. Read the tutorial here
Digital photo frame / media panel with a #RaspberryPi
Andy Jagoe has written an Instructable for creating a photo frame or media panel with a Raspberry Pi and an LCD screen. Read the Instructable
#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD…
Control your #RaspberryPi from your laptop or desktop – two methods
Meltwater has done an extensive guide on communication with your Raspberry Pi via a network cable between the Pi and your laptop (or other machine). It’s quite long-winded, and for anything graphical it’s even longer with a lot of hoops…
Learn Python – Creating Functions on the #RaspberryPi
David Briddock is continuing his excellent series of Python tutorials and learning exercises. This time he covers creating functions. Read more here
Perl and #RaspberryPi – using the second I2C bus
Mark Dootson has been doing some experimental work with the second I2C bus available on the Pi by soldering pins onto the P5 header. He is then using Perl to communicate with the bus, although I’d imagine it would be…
Add MPEG 2 To Your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a simple how-to from Christian Cawley on installing an MPEG2 licence key on your Raspberry Pi. Read it here
Connecting LM75 temperature sensor to the #RaspberryPi, reading it in Java
Jan Krueger has written an in-depth tutorial in connecting up a bare LM75 temperature sensor to the Raspberry Pi. Plenty of photographs to show the connections and a table to show the pin connections. He has then used the Pi4J…
Install MediaWiki on the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton needed to set-up MediaWiki for work, so decided to try it out on the Raspberry Pi first. He’s written a tutorial on how to do this. Remember, this is the software that Wikipedia runs on so is tried-and-tested…