Eric Tsai has put together a combination of wireless, sensor-packed Arduinos with a Pi and come up with a quite neat home monitoring solution. He’s written it all up as an Instructable which you can view here. He’s called in…
Category: Sensors
Real-time aircraft tracking with a Raspberry Pi
Pat Whens has posted a tutorial in which you can track aircraft in real-time from your Raspberry Pi using a $10 Software Defined Radio (SDR) dongle. It also uses flightaware.com’s API. You can read more about how to do it…
Push notifications to your phone with a Raspberry Pi
Mike Haldas has written a great tutorial which uses free (well, it’s ‘free to get started’, not sure if it’s continually free) online service Instapush to send push notifications to an Android/iOS app on your mobile phone. His example application (for…
Weather station controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Year 12 students Liam and Nico from Howick College, New Zealand, have created a Raspberry Pi-controlled weather station.The Weather Station can log readings from 1 minute upwards. It logs temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and wind speed.The logged file and the…
Raspberry Pi irrigation controller
Jennifer Fox has constructed an irrigation controller using a Pi, a relay and a solenoid irrigation valve (amongst other bits and pieces). She’s posted the whole thing up on Instructables as a tutorial and also covered creating a capacitive soil…
Raspberry Pi controlled syringe pump
In both science and medicine, there is a requirement for dispensing drugs and other liquids in controlled measurements, or doses. This requirement is usually satisfied by a syringe pump. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has blogged about a Raspberry Pi-powered pump…