Shea Silverman has blogged about creating a bluetooth iBeacon by using a Bluetooth dongle with a Raspberry Pi. He’s written comprehensive, though brief, instructions for setting up the iBeacon and then gone on to explain how to alter the downloadable software to…
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Best wi-fi dongle for the Raspberry Pi – a group test
Alex Eames has conducted a series of field tests (okay, not in a field exactly) on three wi-fi dongles: the official Foundation dongle, a standard Edimax dongle and the dongle from The Pi Hut. He tried them out in different locations…
Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV can take a Raspberry Pi
Yvo de Haas at Ytec3D previously worked on the Pip-Boy 3000 which was a wearable personal assistance device inspired by a device with the same name from the Fallout series of computer games. With the advent of Fallout 4 being announced,…
3D printed Raspberry Pi instant thermal printing camera
Arvid Larsson has always been fascinated by Polaroid cameras, and considered buying one. Then he worked out how much each print costs! So, he took a Raspberry Pi, a camera module and a thermal printer and made his own. A…
Internet-of-Things temperature reading with the Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial on reading data from a waterproof 1-wire temperature sensor and then outputting it to screen. He has then expanded on this to push the data up to online service Firebase. Read the tutorial…
3D printed portable Raspberry Pi games console
I’ve featured a few of these before, but this one looks particularly nice. Rasmus Hauschild is 14 years old and from Denmark. He has created a portable retro games console with the Pi and some nifty 3D printing. He has posted up…
Raspberry Pi robot kit GoPiGo gets a node.js library
Good news from Dexter Industries today. Together with ‘a few key contributors’ their GoPiGo robotics kit is now controllable via programming language node.js. If you have one of their kits, or you just want to look at how node.js can…
Raspberry Pi/RetroPi gaming machine tutorial
Spencer Organ has written up a great tutorial on creating a retro gaming machine from a Raspberry Pi and a small composite monitor. It adds a nice method for building the machine to some other tutorials and brings it all together.…
Plotter made from two optical drives and a Raspberry Pi
Norbert Heinz cannibalised two optical drives for their parts, then hooked them up to a Raspberry Pi via a couple of H-bridge chips before adding an arm with a pen. This gave him a drawing mechanism that could be programmatically…
RasPiO GPIO ruler for Raspberry Pi announces philanthropic stretch goal
Alex Eames has announced a stretch goal for the Raspberry Pi GPIO ruler he launched on Kickstarter last week. What is the stretch goal? The target for the goal is 1000 backers or £6000 and, if either of these are hit,…