Nathan Broadbent has built a Raspberry Pi into his microwave. It scans the normal barcode of a product, looks it up on an online database and this dictates the cooking instructions. It also allows voice commands and tweets when it’s…
Category: Internet of things
#RaspberryPi powered pollution monitor – the AirPi
Two kids from Westminster School in London have created a pollution monitoring system with a Raspberry Pi. It records temperature, humidity, air pressure, light levels and monitors for various pollutants like carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide. They have said that…
Live weather mapping with lots of #RaspberryPi
Just a quick blog. Over at DragonTail, they have a map showing loads of weather stations driven by the Raspberry Pi. Go and check it out
The Foundation get a cloud-enabled #RaspberryPi controlled coffee machine (updated: Build your own!)
Thanks to a generous gift from US-based company Zipwhip, the Raspberry Pi Foundation now has a coffee machine. But this is no ordinary coffee machine, Oh No! This one can be texted when coffee is needed and then sends a…
Simple two-way NFC/RFID communications with #RaspberryPi and Adafruit
Adafruit has just published a guide to doing NFC/RFID communications with their breakout board. Read the guide
#RaspberryPi bird box with BBC Springwatch
Dr Andrew Robinson has written a blog post about how they’ve used the Raspberry Pi to monitor visits to a bird box and various environmental conditions. He’s hoping to publish instructions on how to set it up so that others…
#RaspberryPi Home Energy Monitor
Steve Swindley has created a household energy monitor from a Raspberry Pi, a Current Cost ENVI and an LED Borg from PiBorg. It’s all controlled with Python. Read more about how he did it here
Google’s Global IT Challenge awards £500,000 to #RaspberryPi Rhino project
The “people’s choice” award of the Global IT Challenge, which aims to award innovative uses of technology that “tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges”, has been awarded to the Zoological Society of London. The £500,000 prize will go a…
Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer
Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There’s also a great script to monitor a DropBox…
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew Read about this great project over at…