Mike Haldas has written a great, comprehensive tutorial about using the Pi and online service Twilio to take photos using the Pi camera and send them to a recipient via MMS message. Take a look here.
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PiPiano – a new Raspberry Pi add-on board
The PiPiano is a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which plugs into the GPIO header and gives you access to 13 buttons, 3 LEDs and a buzzer. It’s been designed to be used as a piano input device…
Raspberry Pi operating system round-up
NetworkWorld has done a nice summary of 10 operating systems you can install on your Pi. Nothing particularly ground-breaking, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen a decent list like this. There are still some they’ve missed, but it’s…
Reduce the size of your Raspberry Pi B+
Adafruit have published a tutorial over on their Learning area that will help you hack your Raspberry Pi model B+ to get a much thinner profile. It’s not exactly “wafer-thin” as they claim, but it does give you a Pi…
Build a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet
Instructables user diygizmo has posted a great tutorial to help you build the arcade cabinet in the picture above. Check it out here.
Transmit FM audio from your Raspberry Pi – but be careful!
Tom Herbison has blogged about a way to use the Pi as an FM radio transmitter up to 250MHz. His tutorial does come with several warnings about what kind of signal the Pi is putting out, but includes ways around…
Send email from Python
Trevor Appleton has posted on his blog a way to send email from Python. This is a great way to send a notification when a certain event is triggered. Take a look here.
Time-lapse stargazing with the Raspberry Pi
Now this is something I’ve been wanting to try myself for ages. Jippo has created some software which captures images from the Raspberry Pi camera module in a time-lapse to enable you to get great night-time pictures of moving objects such…
Scary Pi-ano with a Raspberry Pi and Makey Makey
Stewart Watkiss (aka Penguin Tutor) has posted details of his 9-year old daughter’s Halloween project. It uses a Makey Makey and conductive Playdough to send commands to a Raspberry Pi which then plays (via Scratch) various sounds and generates lighting…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…