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The Secret Life of the Pi

shabaz

IntroductionIf you’ve ever wondered how the Pi functions internally, the answer will really depend on how deep you want to examine it. Each part on the circuit board has documentation, sometimes running to thousands of pages. I wanted to explore it a...
- 15 Jul 2017
A First Pi Project: Xmas Trees!

shabaz

IntroductionI’m lucky to know lots of very creative and thoughtful people here at Element14, and in my everyday work and play. I spend as much time with them as possible because I learn so much. If I throw out a problem at people I’ll inevitably...
- 13 Jul 2017
Sense Hat Color Chooser

Former Member

Ive moved into a new house and came across a sense hat for the raspberry pi which made me remember a little project that I was working on, its basically a html based color chooser which updates the selected colour on the sense hat so I thought I'...
- 10 Jul 2017
Working with the Pi: Getting Online, I/O and Command Lines

shabaz

Introduction Enabling Wireless (WiFi) Connecting Input/Output (I/O) Devices to the Expansion Header Quick Linux Reference Guide Powering off the Pi IntroductionThis blog post contains some miscellaneous topics that are handy when work...
- 7 Jul 2017
Accessing and Controlling the Pi

shabaz

Introduction Using the Shell (Command Prompt or Terminal) Simplifying access to the Pi with SSH Transferring Files with PuTTY Securing the Pi Enabling the root user account (Superuser) Remote Desktop (Accessing your Pi from a PC) Using...
- 7 Jul 2017
Before You Start Coding the Pi

shabaz

Introduction What do I do with the Circuit Board? Installing Raspbian Powering it off Safely Next Steps IntroductionThis blog post contains information on some of the important steps worth taking if you've purchased a Pi and are getti...
- 7 Jul 2017
Music Tech: The Raspberry Pi Looper, Created by Toby Hendricks

danzima

Music has always been driven forward in part by the technology used to make it. The piano combined the best features of the harpsichord and clavichord to help concert musicians; the electric guitar made performing and recording different forms of blu...
- 6 Jul 2017
IOT With Raspberry Pi using JAVA

oksbwn

This post features videos that I published to my YouTube channel in the series "IOT with Raspberry Pi ". This basically contains 4 videos around raspberry pi that show how to use Raspberry Pi as an IOT device. It starts from interfacing sensor to pub...
- 1 Jul 2017
Artificial Intelligence Gets Ported Over to the Raspberry Pi with Latest Microsoft Advancement

Catwell

Microsoft was able to squeeze their deep-learning algorithms onto an RPi 3 in order to bring intelligence to small devices. Love it or fear it, AI is advancing, and it’s coming to small/portable electronic devices thanks to advanced developments...
- 1 Jul 2017
Home Automation in the UK Simplified, Part 1: Energenie MiHome

shabaz

Home Automation in the UK Simplified, Part 1: Energenie MiHome Join Shabaz as he works on his IoT home!Learn about home automation using the Raspberry Pi, Energenie MiHome and Node Red.Check out our other Raspberry Pi Projects on the projects homepag...
- 23 Jun 2017
Professional RS485 Shield for RPi

hwhardsoft

Hi, I'm working actually on a professional RS422/RS485 shield for the Raspberry Pi. I wasn't satisfied with the shields on the market. They are very simple and have some disadvantages. My shield comes with the following features: RS...
- 14 Jun 2017
MagicPi [1]: a MagicMirror2 development platform for the Raspberry PI (with some new things)

balearicdynamics

Introduction Platform scenario Building the structure Wooden frame Fixing the mirror Assembling the mirror back side Keeping the LCD in place Adding the Raspberry Pi and wiring all together Raspberry Pi Cooling Adding the Pi devices...
- 2 Jun 2017
Stranger Things are afoot with Android on Raspberry Pi - "Android Things" is available

cstanton

I'm not sure how I managed to miss this, perhaps because it's still in 'developer preview', but a version of Android is officially available for the Raspberry Pi 3. If you're really keen, you can download the image here for the developer preview...
- 7 May 2017
Google's Alexa-like Pi AIY Kit, mini teardown

shabaz

Google has been busy getting stuff attached to MagPi magazines.. I spotted a box containing an 'AIY' kit at the local magazine retailer. Basically it is a card box with some electrical parts and the MagPi magazine.It is like a cut-down DIY version of...
- 4 May 2017
Add a 3G mobile data connection to the Raspberry Pi

cocomoo

The Raspberry Pi and other low-cost, board-based computers are becoming increasingly popular amongst developers and hobbyists, thanks to the Internet of Things revolution. Users are easily able to experiment with IoT projects by connecting to a netwo...
- 26 Apr 2017
Pulse Train Hat for the Raspberry Pi

pthat

I am hoping that a new HAT we have designed and released will be of interest to anyone wanting to control motors within their own projects using the Raspberry Pi computer.The Pulse Train Hat is an add-on board for the Rapsberry Pi computer and allows...
- 14 Apr 2017
WSPRpi part 0: Introduction and what is WSPR?

danielmcgraw

Hi, my name is Dan and my ham radio callsign is M0WUT.I am developing an automated Raspberry Pi Zero based transceiver for the WSPR amateur mode.What is WSPR?WSPR stands for Weak Signal Propogation Reporter (full details WSJT Home Page) developed by ...
- 3 Apr 2017
Adding Ethernet and Sound Card to Rpi Zero (WSPRpi part 1)

danielmcgraw

If you are here to see how to add Ethernet / soundcard functionality to the Pi Zero, this is a part to be used in my automated amateur radio WSPR transceiver. Explanation of which can be found here: WSPRpi part 0: Introduction and what is WSPR? If yo...
- 2 Apr 2017
MATLAB and Simulink Mobile Devices Challenge is here …

madhugovindarajan

Last year MathWorks announced the MATLAB and Simulink Hardware Challenge, in which a lot of you from our element14 community participated. I am here to introduce the MATLAB and Simulink Mobile Devices Challenge this year.Have you developed a cool And...
- 31 Mar 2017
A New Ruggedized Raspberry Pi 3 – netPI!

shabaz

IntroductionAt Embedded World 2017 I saw something that initially made me very confused. It was a rugged piece of hardware that clearly looked like it was related to the Raspberry Pi in some way but upon opening it up I couldn’t see how a Pi would fi...
- 28 Mar 2017
Go Go Gadet Raspberry Pi Zero W

clem57

Go Go Gadget Raspberry Pi Zero W Happy Birthday from Raspberry Pi Foundation!!! March 7 was Raspberry Pi’s...
- 14 Mar 2017
New Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless

KJackson

Raspberry Pi have (today) launched the new Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless. For more information on the Raspberry Pi Zero range, including where to buy the new Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless please visit the Raspberry Pi Foundation website at https...
- 28 Feb 2017
Home Automation... Software Advice

nicolaoscon96

Hello Again, As i said in others post of mine i am working on a house automation system based on raspberry pi and arduino ... I ve moved a lot with this.. I also writing a program for this. I wrote the program in Visual basic 2010...it has over 1000 ...
- 28 Feb 2017
RetroPie Victim of 'Stolen Identity'

cstanton

Almost everyone has heard of RetroPie. The open source software which has enabled a bunch of Ikea tables with embedded Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, they've recently learnt a bitter lesson in trademarks, that unless you get there first...
- 26 Feb 2017
Another day and another design. RPi meets PSOC: What do you think?

ipv1

A few months back, I enrolled for a design contest at hackster.io . Needless to say its one of those contest where hundreds(500) of people join but every few complete. Anyway I did my part and here are a few tit-bits I gathered. The implementati...
- 22 Feb 2017