Rotem Tamir has blogged about a way to use your Pi, Firebase, AngularJS and some Python to monitor your home wifi network. It’s a full tutorial and should take about an hour for you to replicate it. Read the tutorial here.
Raspberry Pi enthusiast Andrew Mulholland wins TalkTalk prizes
On Tuesday, young Pi enthusiast and teacher-of-code Andrew Mulholland travelled to London to take part in the awards ceremony for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes 2014 in the House of Commons. As well as receiving the Next Generation prize, Andrew also walked away as the overall winner! This young man does so much for the Pi community, especially in his native Northern Ireland, and it’s great to see him getting recognition for it!
Also at the ceremony was Alan O’Donohoe (of Raspberry Jam fame) who collected the prize for Volunteer Digital Hero.
Sounds like everyone had a great time and it’s wonderful to see people involved in the Pi community get recognised at such a prestigious event.
Interview with Raspberry Pi celeb Ryan Walmsley
Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack.co.uk,managing director of Ryanteck Ltd and all-round nice chap has been interviewed by Russell Barnes from RasPi.Today and spoken about some of his accomplishments and challenges over the past couple of years, especially in light of the first anniversary of Ryanteck Ltd. Congrats Ryan! Listen to the Podcast here.
You can visit Ryan’s web store here – there’s some great bargains to be had!
Blackpool Raspberry Jam – 8th November
Les Pounder is organising another Blackpool Raspberry Jam at the Palatine Library. It takes place between 1pm and 4pm on 8th November. You can book free tickets here.
Rawwwwrgghh! Hacking dinosaurs with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Lucy Rogers got together with a group of makers at Blackgang Chine, a Theme Park on the Isle of Wight, to take control of their animatronic dinosaurs. She and some helpers first of all taught the makers and staff how to do things like hack electronics and program them from the Raspberry Pi before moving onto controlling the big, articulated dinosaur models they had available. Using NodeRED and movement sensors built into the models, they were able to make the dinosaurs react dynamically to the presence of visitors. Read more over at Element14. Great fun!
Set-up wifi on your Raspberry Pi from the command line
Richard, the Average Man, has written a straight-forward tutorial that takes you through the process of setting up wifi from the command line. Read how to do it here.