Big thanks to Matt Hawkins for this one – I needed to use it this morning! Matt Hawkins has documented the new way of getting boot-time scripts to run. On the Jessie version of Raspbian, instead of using /etc/rc.local like…
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New LEGO-compatible case for the Raspberry Pi touch screen launched on Kickstarter
Tom Murray, who launched the LEGO-compatible SmartiPi case in October 2014, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a case for the official touch screen for the Raspberry Pi. The new case, which will be injection moulded, includes…
Word clock with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Nice to see projects being built with the Zero now. David Saul set himself a project over Christmas: a ‘word clock’. For this, he used a Raspberry Pi Zero and a MAX7219 chip. A ‘word clock’ is a clock made up…
Paint your SenseHAT with this script
Giles Booth has written a small app using PyGame that allows you to ‘paint’ a virtual grid on screen and then have the same picture re-produced on the SenseHAT’s 8×8 matrix. Read how he did it and get the script…
A Raspberry Pi Christmas tree on a lubricating tram
Jiří Zemánek and Martin Gurtner were asked by journalists from technological on-line magazine Technet to place a remote-controlled Christmas tree on-board a tram that lubricates the tracks around Prague. To control the lights, they used a Raspberry Pi to run a string of addressable WS2811 LEDs.…
Magic Mirror uses Raspberry Pi and widgets
Dylan Pierce has created a ‘magic mirror’ for his girlfriend. As well as showing a reflection, it also displays various widgets such as the time, weather etc. The whole thing is powered by a Raspberry Pi which is projected through ‘two…
3D printed Half Life turret will have a Raspberry Pi brain
A very clever chap over at SolderChips is currently designing and 3D-printing a scale replica of a Half Life 2 sentry gun/turret. A Raspberry Pi will be used to do facial image recognition and then tell an Arduino to control some servos…
Speak to your Raspberry Pi via an Ethernet cable
Scott Campbell has written a tutorial on connecting directly to a Raspberry Pi using an ethernet cable from a Windows machine. Read it here.
Track the next high tide with a Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville (aka Average Man) lives in Southend-on-Sea, which puts him on the East coast of England. He has taken one of his prototyping boards (the ProtoPal) and the components contained in the RasPiO 7 segment display kit and created a…
Program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
The Raspberry Pi Zero’s USB port is an OTG port, meaning that hardware-wise programming it over USB should be possible. Well, some clever people over on the Raspberry Pi forums have worked out how to get the software working. Andrew Mulholland…