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C# Tutorial – Hi, My Name Is ____

oneleggedredcow

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...
- 1 Oct 2015
Foginator 2000: #004 Ambient Audio Hardware and Coding

CharlesGantt

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...
- 30 Sep 2015
Trick or Trivia Halloween Candy Dispenser #003 - Interfacing Ambient and Triggered Audio Events

CharlesGantt

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...
- 29 Sep 2015
C# Tutorial – Hello Raspberry Pi 2

oneleggedredcow

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...
- 29 Sep 2015
HTML-Based Any-Device User Interface for Embedded Applications

shabaz

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...
- 27 Sep 2015
Christmas Lights synced with music

1sttimerrick

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?
- 26 Sep 2015
Pi-Go - Amateur Radio Power for your Raspberry Pi

e14 Contributor

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...
- 25 Sep 2015
Foginator 2000: #003 Raspberry Pi Sense Hat Integration with Initial State

CharlesGantt

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...
- 24 Sep 2015
Foginator 2000: #002 Fog Controller Hardware Build and Testing

CharlesGantt

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 ...
- 21 Sep 2015
Game On! Raspberry Pi Video Game Arcade Machine

spannerspencer

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...
- 17 Sep 2015
Cheap DIY Mister fog machine For all your Haloween needs

m.ratcliffe

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...
- 16 Sep 2015
Trick or Trivia Halloween Candy Dispenser #002 - Building The Trivia Interface

CharlesGantt

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 ...
- 15 Sep 2015
Raspberry Pi Geocache Update

ovidiub13

Original article at: http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com/en/2015/09/13/raspberry-pi-geocache-update/ Here are the updates:I’ve bought an extender for the RP pins from Jola Engineering and soldered the shim onto it. Now I can put everything together nic...
- 14 Sep 2015
An Ill Wind...

dmedlow

Alas winter has hit the old homestead hard, with most of the family down with or recovering from variations of head, chest and other colds.Hence not much fun stuff happening..... However I did start thinking about how to get diagnostic info to ...
- 14 Sep 2015
Playing Pong with crane remotes

hwhardsoft

We've made this funny project for a German crane manufacturer. It's a PONG game based on the Raspberry Pi 2, written in Python and controlled via 2 heavy remotes for cranes. www.youtube.com/watch
- 12 Sep 2015
Miniature Solar Cells and Improving Real-Time GPIO Performance

shabaz

IntroductionThere is plenty of jitter on signals generated using GPIO on the Raspberry Pi and many other computers, and this is due to the fact that Linux can context-switch user processes at any desired point in time dependant on its scheduler (for ...
- 10 Sep 2015
Taking the PI GPS Board for a stroll

dmedlow

Having now resolved (hopefully) the hardware issues with the GPS and display mounted simultaneously it was time to check out the GPS reception and ensure that I was seeing good NMEA data on the serial interface.My problem is that the area where I do ...
- 6 Sep 2015
Foginator 2000: #001 Project Introduction

CharlesGantt

Halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays, so much so that I founded a business that makes professional-grade props and controllers for Haunted Houses. This naturally led to Element14 asking me to create a couple of projects that were eas...
- 4 Sep 2015
Trick or Trivia Halloween Candy Dispenser #001 - Project Introduction

CharlesGantt

#ShareTheScare this HalloweenVisit our Halloween space and find out how to win one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. There are two ways to win:Build and document your past or present Halloween projects.Tweet your best engineering spook with #ShareT...
- 3 Sep 2015
Shim fixed, and a new idea

dmedlow

I was quite happy to get the Pi LCD display working by following the blog posts, but was disappointed to find that when I had both the MicroStack GPS module and the Display Board connected, the GPS Board stopped working. By a few elementary tests thi...
- 29 Aug 2015
Pilolu - 3D controller for Raspberry Pi.

e14 Contributor

I'm working on a 3D controller hat for a Raspberry Pi. This is a glimpse of the hardware prototype. You can see the USB and ethernet ports of the Pi on the left side. Features: 4 motor control channels - compatible with A498...
- 28 Aug 2015
Using A Raspberry Pi and Node-Red to Make A Game

e14 Contributor

By LDR (9 years old) (+dad)IntroductionIn this game, you roll coins down a ramp onto a board with foil islands. When the coins make a bridge from one side to the other, it is a complete circuit and an LED lights up. Simple series circuit with ...
- 27 Aug 2015
Getting the Hardware Together and a Serial Problem

dmedlow

Today was spent soldering the Pi Shim and finding out exactly how bad my soldering skills were. Overall though not too bad and once completed it was time to mount the GPS on the microstack and the subassembly onto the Pi. Once powered up I follo...
- 23 Aug 2015
Step by Step Building the Raspberry Pi 2 GPS Geocaching Kit - Part III: Trouble-shooting and Get It Work

cmelement14

In Part II: OS Configuration and Software Installation & Update, I showed how I configured the OS and installed software. In this part III, I will show the problem of SHIM and how I made it work. To test the kit, I first tried cgps program a...
- 17 Aug 2015
Getting Started

dmedlow

Finally got to unboxing the hardware and seeing what was supplied for the geocaching build. The Pi2 looks good, particularly with the additional USBs and the reduced footprint with the micro-SD card. I mounted the Raspberry on a board that I can...
- 16 Aug 2015