Robin Newman, who is normally to be found hacking with Sonic Pi, has turned his attention to an online service called Telegram. Using your mobile phone, you can send messages to Telegram which will send them to your Pi which…
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Updating Raspbian and NOOBS for the Raspberry Pi 2
For those of you out there who have the Raspberry Pi B+ and have just bought a Pi 2, you will need to update your existing microSD card on the B+ before you plug it into the Pi 2. This is accomplished…
4tronix Agobo review – a cheap, hackable robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth from 4tronix was kind enough to send me one of these to review and say what I like about it. Introduction The 4tronix Agobo is a robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi model A+. It comes as a kit…
Raspberry Pi Wifi-Controlled Cat Laser Toy
PLEASE READ THE NOTES OF CAUTION BELOW I wasn’t going to feature this and then I thought I would with a note of caution. Here’s an Adafruit tutorial in which you construct a remotely-operated laser-pointer cat toy. The project provides…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
Touchscreen JavaFX 8 on Raspberry Pi
Pance Cavkovski has written a nice tutorial on programming a touchscreen interface, using the PiTFT screen, using JavaFX 8. His project involves an NFC plug-in board which scans your access card and then prompts you to enter a code, thus…
Handheld Linux terminal using a Raspberry Pi
Chris Robinson has taken a Pi, a PiTFT screen, some hard drive enclosures and some other small components and created an ultra-portable handheld Linux terminal. It’s very nifty and it’s been a while since I’ve seen something so small and,…
Use a Raspberry Pi and a cheap dongle to track aeroplanes
London-based Sopwith has taken a DVB-T dongle, plugged it into his Raspberry Pi and used software packages and scripts he has written himself to create an aeroplane tracker that plots onto a map. Read how to do it by viewing…
Make your own Nokia 5110 Raspberry Pi add-on board
Richard Saville (Average Man) has used one of his ProtoPal prototyping boards to create a board that houses a Nokia 5110 LCD display. He’s written a tutorial about assembling the board and installing the necessary software to use it. Great idea…
Word clock using a Raspberry Pi and a Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk has taken a model A+ and a Unicorn HAT add-on board and created a clock which tells the time in plain English. It does this by lighting up the Neopixels on the HAT in a specific pattern to…