Richard Saville has done a great round-up/review of the various options available to you when you’re using the Pi as a media centre. He covers various options including the Yatse phone app, a wireless keyboard/trackpad combo device and a FLIRC IR…
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Raspberry Pi security camera using a RasPiO Duino
Alex Eames has been busy experimenting with a way to replace an old low-res security camera at his house in Poland. He’s come up with a Pi-controlled, servo-positioned camera that will accept commands over Twitter. The core of the project is…
Aerial photography from a kite with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler (who has previously done very many cool things with a Pi) has developed his own “kite mapping” rig using a Raspberry Pi. He’s taken a model A+, a camera module, an Xtrinsic Sensor board and a ProtoCam prototyping board, meshed…
Selfie camera with a Raspberry Pi and a Pipsta printer
Spencer Organ has blogged about his new project: a selfie camera with automatic printing facility. He’s used a Raspberry Pi camera module and a Pipsta printer to do it. He’s published the 14-line piece of code over on his blog, so…
Java, sensors and the I2C bus on the Raspberry Pi
Jose Cruz has continued his series on using sensors on a Raspberry Pi with Java. (You can see part 1 here) This time he tackles initialising the I2C bus on the Pi and then using Java to read sensor data…
Lisiparoi Raspberry Pi camera light – Review
Lisiparoi creator Jason Barnett was kind enough to send me one to review, so here goes… Introduction The Lisiparoi is, simply, a light for your Raspberry Pi camera module. It comes in two flavours: the white Lisiparoi is for the normal…
A Raspberry Pi ambient notification cube
Two years ago, Matthew Achariam decided he wanted to create a “tangible” electronics project. He came up with the idea of showing notifications via a cube of LEDs. He hooked the LEDs up to a Raspberry Pi, added a wi-fi dongle…
Use your Kindle as a screen for the Raspberry Pi
This is not a new idea, but I’ve not seen the process documented as well before. Guillaume Levrier has written up his project that bonds a Kindle Paperwhite to the Raspberry Pi, allowing it to be used as a screen.…
Beginnings of a greenhouse monitor project using a Raspberry Pi
Romilly Cocking and his wife own an allotment about half a kilometre from where they live. Romilly wanted to set up a wireless monitor between the greenhouse on the allotment and their home. To do this, he’s experimenting with a…
TrafficHAT from RyanTeck for the Raspberry Pi – review
The TrafficHAT from RyanTeck is a simple-to-use add-on board for later models of the Raspberry Pi. It plugs into the 40-pin GPIO header and gives you access to 3 large LEDs, a button and a buzzer. It sounds simple, and…