Packt Publishing have been offering a free e-book a day for a while now. Today is the turn of Richard Grimmett’s Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects. Here is a contents listing direct from their web page: 1: GETTING STARTED WITH RASPBERRY…
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Controlling a garage door over the internet using a Raspberry Pi
Don Howdeshell (who previously taught his daughter not to wake her parents up at an un-godly hour using a Pi) wanted to allow his wife to control the garage door from the Android tablet mounted in her car. So, he interfaced…
New Raspberry Pi Calendar now available from the Swag store
A beautifully-designed Raspberry Pi-themed calendar featuring the artwork of Sam Alder is now available from the Swag store, priced at £5.99 for a limited time (rising to £7.99 at some point, which is still a bargain). I grabbed a peek of…
Raspbian Jessie updated to include Node-RED and other enhancements
Simon Long has continued his great work on the base operating system for the Raspberry Pi. The latest update includes the following: The Node-RED visual development environment is installed by default. Especially great news for those who are into the…
Raspberry Pis in space aboard Atlas V rocket!
An unmanned Cygnus cargo freighter, powered by an Atlas V rocket, has just taken off from Florida. On board are two Raspberry Pi Astro Pi units destined for the International Space Station. So exciting! Lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.…
Interested in the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi launch? Get thee to NASA’s stream
If you want to see the launch of the rocket with the Astro Pi units onboard, get over to UStream now to watch NASA TV!
Run a Raspberry Pi headless from initial boot-up
David Maitland has worked out the series of commands and edits that you need to carry out in order to automatically make your Raspberry Pi headless and available on your network from first boot-up. It involves using a Linux computer to…
Hardware hacker uses Raspberry Pi Zero as a selfie-stopper
British security expect Steve Lord has come up with a unique use for the Raspberry Pi Zero. Powered by batteries, the Zero seeks out open wifi networks and then scans network traffic for calls to Instagram, which is what most people…
Add an ethernet port to your Raspberry Pi Zero
This is a great little hack that doesn’t require much knowledge to do. Alex Eames had purchased a little ethernet breakout board from DealExtreme and, following a thread on the Raspberry Pi forums, connected it up to the Pi via…
Create a GPS tracker with Python and a Raspberry Pi
David Sulpy over at Initial State has done a great tutorial in which he uses an Adafruit Ultimate GPS board to create a GPS tracker system. There is a quick set of instructions here and a more comprehensive set here.…