Vincent Willcox previously posted about his motion-detecting, noise-making intruder warning system. He’s now added a camera module to the project and it takes a picture of the intruder. He’s used the picamera Python library to do this and it’s a good example of how to do simple things with that library. Read the second part of his tutorial here.
Matt Manning has, on his Raspberry Pi IV Beginners YouTube channel, created a video that explains the ‘sudo’ command and why you might use it. Watch the video below
19-year old Brandon has written a Java application that runs on a Raspberry Pi and tweets when his servers are down.
Trevor Appleton has done a nice tutorial on using Filezilla to transfer files to/from your Raspberry Pi by using the SFTP protocol. Beats the hell out of using USB sticks and swapping files that way! Also beats setting up an FTP server on the Pi just to copy a couple of files across.
Those of us lucky enough to be at the Raspberry Jamboree caught sight of this on the CPC stand.
It’s a brand new Raspberry Pi kit that is based around Carrie Anne Philbin’s book “Adventures in Raspberry Pi”. The book, which received a 10/10 rating from me a little while ago, helps you get set-up with your Pi and then contains tons of experiments and projects. The book builds upon the knowledge you gain from each chapter to give you a truly enjoyable, but educational, experience of programming and hacking.
The kit includes the following:
You can pick the kit up for just shy of £100 and it’s great value, especially if you don’t happen to have a spare keyboard, mouse or SD card. It comes in a nice big box! You can probably pick everything up for a little less if you shop around but it’s a great package and easily eclipses their other, identically priced, package that uses different books just by virtue of using Carrie Anne’s book and ensuring that you have all the components you need.
If you’re just starting out and you need a Pi, I heartily recommend this kit (or shopping around for the same parts!).
Tony DiCola has written a tutorial for the Adafruit Learning System in which he uses a Pi and a camera module, together with a nice wooden box and servo, to create a box which only opens if it recognises the person opening it. That was awful grammar, but never mind!
