Welcome to installment #005 of Project: Foginator 2000, part of the 2015 Raspberry Pi Halloween Project series here at Element14. In this week's episode I am going to demonstrate how to get Neopixel (WS2812B) LED modules working with the Raspbe...
It looks like I am one of the first to receive the Kit, So I thought I would do a quick video of what was in the box: www.youtube.com/watch Thanks Element14 and Dave, the kit looks great and was shipped fast as always! Keep an eye on the ma...
Updated arrangements: Since the sad announcement we now await for Candi's remains to be delivered to us. Our family is saddened by the loss especially her friend Scratch & her pet Python. They both graciously volunteered to help Dale & C...
We regret to announce the sudden death of Candi D. Spencer. The tombstone is being made in memory of Candi. The tombstone has 2 doors that will open as a grieving child approaches which reveals a LED touch screen. The saddened child will be asked a q...
Introduction
Raspberry Pi
Touch Screen
WiPi
Pi Camera
Connecting the camera
Enabling camera support
Thermal Printer
Connecting the printer
Controlling the printer
Kivy
Project
Code
Build
Demo
Introduction I ha...
Welcome back to the Trick or Trivia Blog. In this installment, I am going to cover the candy dispensing mechanical assembly, as well as the coding to get the servo up and running on the Raspberry Pi 2. Up until now, all of the parts needed to b...
What I will build if I am selected(the more detail, the better!): SynpopsisAt carnivals they usually have a dunk tank where a person, which I usually see dressed as a clown, heckles the crowd to lure them into paying money and attempt to dunk he...
A few weeks since the last post, mainly due to the tenacious cold & flu-like bug circulating around the family. Since that's now gone I was keen to look at more GPS coding on the Pi. My last attempt had reading of the serial port running fin...
We will be using quite a lot of image processing on this project, lets make life simple. It it crazy Just How much miss information there is about opencv and the Raspberry pi, many tutorials will guide you thru a installation process that ...
Why enter the competition>I have checked out a few of the other Halloween projects and they are great!>Many fun Halloween pi ideas just wont leave the back of my mind>The Element14 Challenges are Fun www.youtube.com/watch Project S...
With running this project on a non existent budget, a lot of the stuff is going to have be $1 or borrowed temp from another project. Here is the poor mans "Fog" build. I built this unit as a pesticide doser, by just adding water it will cr...
In this post, we are going to create a very simple program. The program will ask you for your name, and then it will introduce you with the phrase: Hi, my name is _____. Through doing this we will be exposed to some of the basic concepts that we will...
With the month of October almost here, I have kicked these Halloween projects into high-gear. I previously said that update number four would be all about lighting, but since I just finished the audio portion of Project Trick or Trivia, I thoug...
Welcome back to the Trick or Trivia Blog. In this installment, I am going to show you how I managed to get the audio portion of this project up and running. I hit a slight bump in the road shortly after setting down to figure all of this out. I...
BackgroundIn this tutorial series, we are going to learn C# using the Raspberry Pi 2 and WinIoT. The goal will be to learn about the C# language by building projects with it. So, think about it as learning through building. As we progress through the...
Note: This is part 1 of a 2-part series on an experimental user interfacePart 1: - You are here! <---Part 2: - Not yet written! Bookmark to be notified here when it is available Note: The technique described here is experimental and should be...
I am a raspberry pi first timer and I want to do a raspberry pi hook up with Christmas lights and music. I need detailed instructions. Can anybody provide some good instructions?
Just a couple days left! There's always room for Pi in your Amateur Radio Go Kit. Now you can top it off with the Pi-Go and plug right into your station power. Great for your embedded auto projects as well@ https://www.kickstarter.com...
Welcome to installment #003 of Project: Foginator 2000 part of the 2015 Raspberry Pi Halloween Project series here at Element14. In this week's episode I am going to cover the basics of getting the Raspberry Pi Sense HatRaspberry Pi Sense Hat u...
Welcome to installment #002 of my Foginator 2000 Halloween Project here at Element14. In this week's episode I am going to cover the basics of automating an ADJ VFI1300 1300W Fog MachineADJ VFI1300 1300W Fog Machine via a Raspberry PiRaspberry ...
We've been cruelly teasing you all week about a project we're about to kick off here at element14, as we alluded to the brand new Raspberry Pi case we had delivered.But you guys were too quick for us. Although there were a few wry suggestions about...
I thought I would share my simple design for a fog generating machine, I made this a few years ago as a pesticide doser. It might be of interest to those of you making a PI based Halloween special, just dont add the pesticide! I could not find a...
Hello everyone! It’s been a week and I have been working hard at designing and writing the trivia interface for this project, and I am proud to say that after an absence of more than five years from Python, I was successful in getting a decent ...
