Setting up the PiTFT can be a royal pain in the backside. Fortunately, the Average Man has come to the rescue by writing a comprehensive tutorial on getting the little screen working. If you’ve got one, or you’re just curious how…
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Playing card detection using a #RaspberryPi and OpenCV
R D Milligan has been looking at ways to use his Raspberry Pi and webcam to detect playing cards and build a ‘Poker bot’ and he’s now got it recognising some cards. It’s an interesting project and he’s provided all the…
#RaspberryPi US Tour news for US readers
Ben Nuttall, a member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education team and creator of their website is due to tour the US in August. He’s on the look-out for people and places to visit and is very flexible about where…
Automated reporting with a #RaspberryPi
Luke Maxwell from QueryClick has written an interesting piece about how his company used a Raspberry Pi, MySQL, SQLAlchemy and some Python scripts to automate client reporting. Read it here.
Interview with creator of #RaspberryPi full-body scanner
Richard Garsthagen took 40 Raspberry Pis, fitted them all with camera modules and then placed them in a circle. He then wrote a networked script to simultaneously take a picture of a static object, thus creating a device which can…
Create fractal trees in Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has been busy using the 3D Turtle graphics module he wrote to create fractal trees in Minecraft. I won’t say any more as there’s plenty of detail and code listings over on his website, but suffice to say…
Building a Zumo #RaspberryPi robot
Christopher Barnatt from ExplainingComputers.com has created a video in which he puts together a robot based on the Pololu Zumo chassis and a L298N H-bridge motor controller. Watch the video below:
Using a pair of reading glasses to focus the #RaspberryPi camera
Joonas Pihlajamaa has got hold of the two Pi camera modules – the normal one and the NoIR. He’s been experimenting with taking photos of close-up objects and has found the best way is to use reading glasses, as hinted at…
#RaspberryPi GPIO board compatibility
Matt Hawkins has started the job of determining whether specific GPIO boards work with the new model B+ or not. He’s created a table listing some of the add-on boards and whether they work with the B+ (and how well). Great…
Print off and push on #RaspberryPi Model B+ pinout
Ben over at Phenoptix has slaved away over a pinout diagram for the B+ that you can print out and push onto the GPIO pins, giving you an instant reference. Download from this page.