Stewart Watkiss, over at PenguinTutor.com has written some code in Python using the Tkinter library that produces a GUI for controlling NeoPixels with the MyPiFi NeoPixel controller board. The GUI has nice big buttons (so it’s good for touchscreen set-ups) and…
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Witty Pi – real-time clock and power management for the Raspberry Pi – Review
I was sent one of these by Shawn at UUGear for review so here goes… Information Witty Pi is a real-time clock and power management HAT for the Raspberry Pi B+, A+ and Pi 2. It has the following features:…
IoT Python app with a Raspberry Pi and Bluemix
Jeff Sloyer previously wrote a tutorial on creating a basic Flask app on the Pi. He has now expanded on this and written a new tutorial in which he creates an Internet of Things app using Python and an IBM…
PIN entry system using a Raspberry Pi and Pimoroni Explorer HAT
Sandy Macdonald has taken a Pimoroni Explorer HAT and used it to create a PIN entry system. At the moment, the entry system lights up some LEDs and makes a buzzer sound, but obviously it could be extended to unlock…
Squeezebox built from a Raspberry Pi and an ammo box
Richard Deininger has built a Squeezebox using a Pi and an Adafruit PiTFT and encased the whole thing inside a surplus NATO ammunition box. A Squeezebox is a network streaming device that sends MP3s over a LAN. Read about how…
Prototype Swingometer powered by a Raspberry Pi
Pete Taylor, over at Kimondo.com, has written up his project to create an old-fashioned Swingometer. The Swingometer at the moment does not track the General Election results (on account of us not having had the election yet!) but instead “scrapes” a…
Clusters and parallel programming with MPI and Raspberry Pi
Fabio Nelli has written an excellent tutorial on creating a cluster of Raspberry Pis (just two to start with) and using them to do some parallel programming. He uses the MPI library in Python to set-up communication between the two Pis. It’s…
Use your Kindle as a screen for the Raspberry Pi
This is not a new idea, but I’ve not seen the process documented as well before. Guillaume Levrier has written up his project that bonds a Kindle Paperwhite to the Raspberry Pi, allowing it to be used as a screen.…
Remote control Raspberry Pi GPIO with messaging queues
Messaging queues are all the rage nowadays, what with being the backbone for a lot of Internet of Things projects and concepts. In his blog post, Brian Hines explains how to use a library he wrote called pi-control-service together with RabbitMQ to…
Raspberry Pi networking over serial for a high altitude balloon launch
Team Near Space Circus sent 7 Raspberry Pis up into near space using a high altitude balloon. I previously covered the rough layout of their spherical shaped payload here and now the team has published another blog post about the project. This…