LA-based Brent Nycum has hacked his garage remote-control opener by using a Pi, a relay board and a wifi dongle. He’s then used node.js on the server side to respond to requests. Read more here
Category: Making
Make any remote into a #RaspberryPi remote with FLIRC
Pete Taylor has written a tutorial on using the FLIRC dongle with any remote control. Read it here
Using the Dagu Pan/Tilt kit with the #RaspberryPi
I did this myself a while ago from a collection of parts I put together, but there is now a kit for setting up a pan/tilt mechanism for the camera module. Read about the new kit here.
Residential night cooling automation with a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a cool project (cough cough). Ignacio Abel has created a prototype night-time house cooling automation project with a Raspberry Pi and some bits and pieces of tech from Ciseco. He goes into a lot of detail about how to…
#RaspberryPi connected Wireless Smoke Alarm
Gareth Brown from Safe Fire Direct has written an account of his project which involved taking apart a cheap smoke alarm and installing a radio link between it and a Raspberry Pi. The Pi then sends an email and text…
#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller
Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action. Here’s what he says about it: We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program.…
Guide to soldering – useful for #RaspberryPi owners who tinker!
Meltwater has written an excellent set of tips about soldering. Read the guide here
Open source tablet based on a #RaspberryPi
Richard Bair has written an article on the OpenJDK wiki about a project he has developed in which a Raspberry Pi and several other components go together to create the DukePad – an open source tablet. Duke it out by…
Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform uses the #RaspberryPi
Beth at scanlime has blogged about a pretty insane project that uses a Raspberry Pi at it’s core. They’ve basically taken a forklift and built a ‘cloud’ on the end of the lifter with loads of lights inside and used…
Sensing a laser signal between the #RaspberryPi & #Arduino
Christian Perone has blogged about his experiments using a laser light emitted by an Arduino and a detection circuit using a light dependent resistor (LDR) with a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi & Arduino: a laser pointer communication and a LDR…