Latvia-based Reinis Veips has been trying to replace his Volvo’s nifty pop-up GPS navigation system with a Raspberry Pi. This has involved a lot of tinkering and resulted in a custom printed circuit board. Read all about his project here.
Simple two-way NFC/RFID communications with #RaspberryPi and Adafruit
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Expansion boards, Home automation, Internet of things, Programming, Tutorials
Adafruit has just published a guide to doing NFC/RFID communications with their breakout board. Read the guide
LED matrix with a #RaspberryPi
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Expansion boards, Programming, Tutorials
Frank, at Raspberry Alpha Omega, has worked out how to use WiringPi to drive a 7219 LED matrix. Read how he did it here
Product review: a Slice of Pi for #RaspberryPi
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Expansion boards, Reviews
Oxford-based Peter Haban has done a mini-review of the Slice of Pi GPIO breakout board. Seems like a very useful little board. Read the review
System freezes – a guide to what to do
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Geeky Techniness
Jeff Skinner has blogged about the various things you to need to know if your Pi (or Linux system in general) locks up. For more info, read the blog
Learn and play piano in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
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Games, Programming
Martin O’Hanlon has written a tutorial and Python script to generate a piano and the notes to go along with it! Read more here