Daniel Stinebaugh wanted to replace his Chevy’s failing head unit with a Raspberry Pi. So, he ripped the old one out and fitted the Pi and a wireless router in it’s place. The Pi runs Volumio and he’s also using the DAC+ HAT from…
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Internet-of-Things temperature reading with the Raspberry Pi
Jeremy Morgan has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial on reading data from a waterproof 1-wire temperature sensor and then outputting it to screen. He has then expanded on this to push the data up to online service Firebase. Read the tutorial…
3D printed portable Raspberry Pi games console
I’ve featured a few of these before, but this one looks particularly nice. Rasmus Hauschild is 14 years old and from Denmark. He has created a portable retro games console with the Pi and some nifty 3D printing. He has posted up…
Raspberry Pi robot kit GoPiGo gets a node.js library
Good news from Dexter Industries today. Together with ‘a few key contributors’ their GoPiGo robotics kit is now controllable via programming language node.js. If you have one of their kits, or you just want to look at how node.js can…
DIY laser harp powered by a Raspberry Pi and RasPiO Duino
Not much detail on this, but it’s way too cool not to share. David Pride announced on Twitter that he has created a DIY laser harp. He uses a 50mW laser with a stepper motor to create beams of light…
Tooth fairy conduit system with a vacuum and a Raspberry Pi
Jeff Highsmith, who previously created the wonderful Mission Control Desk and bedroom Apollo Mission has been hard at work again. This time he’s installed a hatch in each of his children’s bedrooms which give access to a pair of tubes into which they can put…
Raspberry Pi add-on board RasPiO Duino gets new PWM video
Alex Eames has been busy creating a new video for owners of the excellent RasPiO Duino board. This one takes you through experiments you can do with the PWM pins on the Duino and helps you to create a colour-fading…
Pigeon racers unite – photo-finish photographs with the Raspberry Pi
Robert Threet is a pigeon racer from Evansville, Indiana. He has added to the high-tech equipment used for recording pigeon arrivals (RFID tags – very swish) – a Raspberry Pi with a motion detector that triggers the attached Pi camera to take a photograph.…
Run Spark and Groovy on a Raspberry Pi and generate simple web apps
Renato Athaydes has written a nice tutorial on installing Groovy and then Spark onto the Pi. He then goes through a simple tutorial that shows you how to build a simple web application using the framework. Between you and me, as a…
Out for the count
Hi all. Apologies for the lack of blog posts over the last few days. I was struck down with food poisoning on Monday afternoon and have been out of commission since then. I’m hoping to start doing plenty of blog…