Hacker Ed Dawson has used an addressable strip of LED lights and some circuitry to create a sunrise clock. He’s done a complete write-up on reproducing his project. This is especially impressive because until the creation of some Python drivers for the strip, this kind of thing could only be done on an Arduino.
Using a Pi, a button and a resistor, it’s possible to create this ultra-simple internet radio. Giles Booth has written the project up and you can read all about it here. Thanks to Pi Weekly for spotting this!
Ben Finio has written an excellent Instructable in which he details the process of reverse-engineering some wireless remotes for electrical sockets and then combines them with a Pi running Steven Hickson‘s VoiceCommand software.
Nice little bit of Python from the ‘piman’. He’s written two functions to get the core system temperatures.
And I thought that Mathematica was only for doing maths on the Pi. Boy was I wrong!
The Foundation have just published a great article linking to several examples that show Mathematica doing some cool stuff over the GPIO.
This article from Linux User & Developer builds upon their previous work to do with building a robot with a Pi.
To start with, the article takes you through using mpeg-streamer very nicely to stream video from your Pi Cam. It then moves on to installing Apache and building a web interface for remote control.
