Randy Westergren uses Capistrano to deploy projects across multiple server environments. He wanted some way of visualising the deployment process and decided that the best way to go was to get hold of a full-size traffic light and use a…
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Expose the network settings on your Raspberry Pi to the boot partition
Using a bit of Linux know-how, Martin Harizanov has worked out how to expose the interfaces and wpa_supplicant files to the boot partition of the Pi’s SD card. This means that you can administer the files by plugging the SD…
Snakes and Ladders game for the Raspberry Pi
Linux guru Les Pounder has created this fantastic version of Snakes and Ladders called Pythons and Resistors, hooked up to a Raspberry Pi. You press a button to perform a dice roll and magnets and reed switches embedded in the…
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
Professor uses Raspberry Pi as part of an earthquake early-warning system
Berkeley professor Joshua Bloom is part of the beta-testing team for ShakeAlert, an earthquake early warning system. He has used a Raspberry Pi to tap into the data source of the system to provide him with a 5-second warning should…
Tiny wall-mounted Raspberry Pi home server
Colin Riley (aka Domipheus) has taken a Pi and a PiTFT screen and created a wall-mounted home server with touchscreen. He’s done a lot of cutting and modification of the Pi and the screen and it’s really impressive how small…
A Raspberry Pi inside an old NES
Here’s a nice project. I don’t have his/her name, but it’s a good hack of an old NES games console to put a Pi inside with RetroPie running on it. Take a look at the full details of the build…
Licence plate recognition on the Raspberry Pi
Luka Gabrić discovered an open source framework for doing licence plate recognition called OpenALPR and decided to test it out on the Pi. He’s written a blog post on the software you’ll need to give it a go yourself and you can see…
Learn how to solder with Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne’s been wanting to learn to solder for a while. She’s now learnt how to do it and has made this great video that teaches you which end of the soldering iron is which and how to make good…
Multi-Datacenter Cassandra on 32 Raspberry Pi’s
Brandon Van Ryswyk and Daniel Chin have just finished building a 32-node DataStax Enterprise cluster running on Raspberry Pis. It’s being used to demonstrate the fault-tolerant nature of Cassandra by letting visitors to their lobby take down a ‘data centre’ with…