My 40th birthday today, so being a bit quiet and doing real-life things (although hacking will be part of that, got to finish off the Music Box properly!). On Saturday, at Potton Pi & Pints, my wife and my good friend…
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4tronix release new ZeroPoint Analog board – use for Raspberry Pi gauges!
Featuring a small stepper motor and an orange pointer, the new ZeroPoint board from 4tronix allows you to add a gauge to the Raspberry Pi. It has a Zero-sized form-factor and the motor is driven by an H-bridge motor controller.…
Plasma CNC machine uses a Raspberry Pi as its brains
Will Baden from Nebraska has developed a plasma CNC machine (which is similar to a regular CNC router but uses plasma) to help him to build and make BIG things. The table controller is a GRBL shield attached to an…
Hand weaver gets a Raspberry Pi assisting loom
Fred Hoefler has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered motorised assistant for a hand weaver. The problem with hand weaving is that it is hard on the hands and arms and older weavers are often unable to continue their work due to…
Raspberry Pi used to monitor and brew the perfect cup of tea
James P is on a quest. A quest many of us have embarked upon without success. Not for the Holy Grail, no. Something much more important: The perfect cup of tea! He explains: (It is a project) designed to brew delicate…
Easy penetration testing using your Raspberry Pi and Warberry Pi
It has been possible to do penetration testing using your Pi for some time now, particularly with Kali Linux. However, it has now been made even simpler with a set of scripts known as Warberry Pi. The set of scripts…
Voice recognition with IBM Watson turns Raspberry Pi into a digital assistant
Over on the IBM developer blog, CodifyThings has written a nice tutorial in which he uses the IBM Watson service, and a Java client running on the Pi, to create a digital assistant to transcribe vocal input. Read more here.
Google working on new real-time operating system that will run on the Raspberry Pi
Google is currently working on a new operating system called Fuchsia. According to reports, the operating system will be based on Magenta which is itself based on LittleKernel, a real-time operating system. Travis Geiselbrecht from Google has explicitly named the Raspberry…
Build your own solar-powered weather station with a Raspberry Pi
Brian Masney has taken a Raspberry Pi Zero and hooked up a load of sensors to create a weather station. He has fixed solar panels to the top for power and the sensors include ones for wind speed and direction, rain, temperature,…
Secure your Raspberry Pi-based website with Let’s Encrypt
Over on the Stack Exchange Raspberry Pi blog, Jacob has written an excellent tutorial in which he uses Let’s Encrypt (a free certificate domain authority) to secure a website hosted on a Raspberry Pi. This means that your website(s) will be secured…