Making, Networking, Tutorials

Add an ethernet port to your Raspberry Pi Zero

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This is a great little hack that doesn’t require much knowledge to do. Alex Eames had purchased a little ethernet breakout board from DealExtreme and, following a thread on the Raspberry Pi forums, connected it up to the Pi via the SPI bus. A little change to the /boot/config.txt to load the correct driver and voila, an ethernet connection! Having got it working on an A+, he transferred it over to a Zero. It’s a little slow, but it’s perfect for IoT applications. Find out how he did it here.

Photo credit: Alex Eames

Accessories, Programming, Sensors, Tutorials

Create a GPS tracker with Python and a Raspberry Pi

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David Sulpy over at Initial State has done a great tutorial in which he uses an Adafruit Ultimate GPS board to create a GPS tracker system. There is a quick set of instructions here and a more comprehensive set here. Really interesting project for those of us who like to communicate with satellites and actually use the incoming data for visualisation.

Science

Watch the AstroPi launch live – TONIGHT!

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TONIGHT (3rd December) at 17:55 EST/22:55 GMT, two ‪Astro Pi units containing Raspberry Pi computers and SenseHATs launch from Cape Canaveral, on their way to the International Space Station. You can watch the launch live via the Astro Pi website. Astronaut Tim Peake will join them on 15th December and start experiments written by school children. More information can be found on the Raspberry Pi website.

Accessories, Compute Module, Media centre, Raspberry Pi Foundation

Slice: the story behind the Raspberry Pi media player

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The “FiveNinjas” (James Adams and Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi, Jonathan Williamson and Paul Beech of Pimoroni, and Mo Volans) have written an excellent blog post over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which they describe the trials and tribulations of getting the Slice media player to market using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Well worth a read.

Arduino, Environment, Home automation, Sensors

Building a water meter for your home with a Raspberry Pi

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David Schneider lives in North Carolina, but used to live in California. Both States have suffered from water shortages to a lesser or greater extent and so he decided to implement a water meter system using an Arduino (to take the readings via a magnetometer) and a Raspberry Pi (to collate the data and provide a UI to the readings). Read more here.

GPIO boards, Programming, Tutorials

Advent calendar with a Raspberry Pi and a SenseHAT

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Richard Hayler loves doing stuff with the SenseHAT, especially with the 8×8 matrix. This time, he’s coded an advent calendar using the matrix for display and the joystick for control. Take a look at his blog for more information. A bit of imagination is required for some of the pictures, but it’s a lovely idea! He’s even provided all the code on Github.