Martin O’Hanlon has recreated the Snake game inside Minecraft running on a Raspberry Pi. Read more here.
Category: Tutorials
Turn a #RaspberryPi into an audio spying device
Masumi Zapater over at NIGEKA has done an interesting tutorial on turning the Raspberry Pi into an audio bug! Using a USB microphone and standard Linux audio tools, he has worked out how to record and stream the audio to…
Speech Recognition with the #RaspberryPi
Someone has written a step-by-step guide to getting speech recognition working on the Raspberry Pi. It’s just a barebones tutorial but it does give you enough to get going if this is the kind of thing you want to do.…
How to: Raspberry Pi Webcam Server Stream | Techspect
Techspect has posted a great how to for turning a Raspberry Pi into a streaming webcam server.
#RaspberryPi as a low-power NAS
Good tutorial on How-To Geek about how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a low-power network storage device using Samba and NTFS. Quite disappointing response to comments, though, as there are lots of questions without answers… Read the article here
Repair a broken SD card “superblock” on a RaspberryPi
Introduction This has happened to me a few times, and it’s not a nice problem to find yourself in. You computer won’t boot, all your filesystem checks tell you you’ve a bad superblock, but you cant seem to find how…
Using a HMC5883L magnetometer/compass with the #RaspberryPi
This blog post describes getting an HMC5883L magnetic compass sensor to work with a Raspberry Pi. The pictures below show the sensor breakout board in question. For Arduino Leonardo If you do not have an Arduino, or just want the…
Raspberry Pi running 4 5V stepper motors from GPIO
I’ve been playing around with some stepper motors with driver boards that I bought from eBay. They have a lot of potential and I’m planning to use them on an astronomy project… but more on that later. The motors were £1.66…
Percona SQL Server on the #RaspberryPi
Arch Linux users have the opportunity to install a MySQL drop-in replacement called Percona on their Raspberry Pi. Alledgedly, Percona is faster than MySQL Percona Server on the Raspberry Pi: Instructions I’m not terribly sure why you’d want to, but…
Raspberry Pi Website Hit Tracker – david singleton
David Singleton has created a Raspberry Pi Website Hit Tracker so that whenever someone visits his page a neon lamp lights up! He’s documented the process and released all the code necessary for you to duplicate his project. Nice one, David!