Conor O’Neill has blogged about his experiences both this year and in the past with electronics, the Pi, Arduinos, and all kinds of other things. Worth a read for an affectionate look back. Read it here
Category: Geeky Techiness
Fast I/O output to a TFT screen on a #RaspberryPi
Jean-Claude Wippler has developed a way to generate images on an LCD TFT touch screen breakout. Part of this has been to use Gordon Henderson’s WiringPi library. He has looked to see how quickly the GPIO pins can be switched…
Modify your #RaspberryPi camera module to take other lenses
The folks over at raspberrytorte.com have written a guide to modifying your camera board to take M12 lenses. Read the guide Thanks to John Beale for spotting this and sending me the info!
#RaspberryPi Mini Media Centre is beauty in a box
Tim Richardson showed off his mini media centre at the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam. He’s now started up a blog about his experiences and projects with the Pi. Here’s his post on the media centre. The whole thing is powered…
Adafruit guide to setting up the #RaspberryPi as a wifi access point
The always-reliable Adafruit have published a method for turning your Pi into a wireless access point. Please note, you will need a wifi dongle that supports the correct mode for this to work. Their guide is available here
#RaspberryPi enabled robot claw game
Stevenage-based Ryan Walmsley (he of rastrack.co.uk fame!) is developing a Raspberry Pi-based version of the classic arcade claw game. The game uses physical controls to manipulate a claw in a cabinet to grab prizes in the hopper below. An Arduino…
Integrating twitter to the #RaspberryPi
Devon, at esologic.com, has written an excellent guide to using Python libraries to send tweets containing sensor readings from his Raspberry Pi. Read more here
Digital Radio Astronomy with your #RaspberryPi
Just a quickie: Robert Arrowsmith has been experimenting with using his Pi and an SDR dongle to do some radio astronomy. Read more here
#RaspberryPi goes on a road-trip
Liz Upton has blogged about an extensive road-trip on the Foundation’s blog that makes use of the Raspberry Pi. She says it better than I can, so here’s her text: Frederik and Ernest Lotter from Blue Horizon Embedded Systems in…
Listen to aircraft transponders with the #RaspberryPi
Corq has blogged about his work on a project to read transponder information from over-flying aircraft using a Raspberry Pi and a TV receiver dongle. Read more here