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Turn the Rapiro into an IoT device with Eclipse Orion and MQTT

kartben

I finally found time to play with my Rapiro - Programmable DIY Robot Kit robot (thanks again Element14 for accepting me for this RoadTest!).You can have a look at the review I wrote, but in a nutshell, after having figured out a few hardware issues, ...
- 29 Apr 2014
Pi Alarm System - Part 5: Fleeing Burglar

fvan

Previous entries in this blog series:Pi Alarm System - Part 1: Project and components description Pi Alarm System - Part 2: Wireless sensors Pi Alarm System - Part 3: Control unit Pi Alarm System - Part 4: Almost there Enclosure The dime...
- 23 Apr 2014
Pi Alarm System - Part 4: Almost there

fvan

Previous entries in this blog series:Pi Alarm System - Part 1: Project and components description Pi Alarm System - Part 2: Wireless sensors Pi Alarm System - Part 3: Control unit Sensors Control Unit Pi NoIR Adafruit LCD and Keypad PiFace...
- 11 Apr 2014
Wolfson controlled from my phone

PEarle

I recently got hold of a Wolfson Audio card and did a bit of trial recording using the command line - see http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/2014/04/06/wolfson-audio-project.That all works fine - but w...
- 10 Apr 2014
Wolfson Audio Card - Command Line recording

PEarle

This article assumes that you have already successfully installed your Wolfson audio card - if you haven't done that yet, there is an excellent blog by cstanton at http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-acces...
- 4 Apr 2014
Pi Webpage Reboot

PEarle

I have recently set up a LAMP Raspberry Pi and am using this at work to monitor some servers (see Raspberry PI as a LAMP server and PI as a Web Server Monitor)I'm running it 'headless' (i.e. without a keyboard or mouse attached). This is fine until I...
- 2 Apr 2014
Rapiro: Optimizing the Pi to interface with the Robot (For Absolute Beginners)

russm24

To start things off, I'd recommend you go through the basics first. Much of the hardware and testing parts have been covered in the post below Mr. Frederick Vandenbosch. I'll be tackling the basic scheme of things to get started with the robo...
- 31 Mar 2014
PI as a Web Server Monitor

PEarle

In my recent blog http://www.element14.com/community/community/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/blog/2014/02/24/raspberry-pi-as-a-lamp-server I described how I went about setting up my Pi as a LAMP server. like most people, once I had got this worki...
- 20 Mar 2014
The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle - SoftballCam - 2

dougw

This blog is the second installment of a review of the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle provided by element14. I have been waiting for parts and struggling a bit with getting everything working, but finally all electronics are kluged together and functio...
- 18 Mar 2014
What's In The Box? PiFace PiCamera Prank - the Ultimate Raspi Bundle Continues

mazzmn

Well, I've finished my main project for The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle Road Trip, you can read about that here:The Complete Channel One Temperature Monitor and Alarm Project - The Ultimate Raspberry Pi BundleBut, that doesn't mean I'm done Road Tri...
- 9 Mar 2014
The Complete Channel One Temperature Monitor and Alarm Project - The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle

mazzmn

I've been blogging about my experience in Road Test reviewing the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle. As a part of this Road Test I'm creating a Fridge/Freezer Temperature Alarm system for our local food shelf, Channel 1. You can see where this Roa...
- 3 Mar 2014
Pi Alarm System - Part 3: Control unit

fvan

Previous entries in this blog series:Pi Alarm System - Part 1: Project and components description Pi Alarm System - Part 2: Wireless sensors Pi NoIR Adafruit RGB LCD and Keypad Kit Assembly I2C Support Testing Programming the menus P...
- 1 Mar 2014
Building the Beast - Occidentalis - The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle

hawkeyethehacker

I decided my previous posts just would not cut it. So here we go, a full documentation of "Building the Beast".The plan of action is to build a MAME and XBMC solution with a monitoring system using the Raspberry Pi camera. The Pi Camera wil...
- 1 Mar 2014
The Ultimate Raspberry Pi bundle Pi Dozer Post 2

afoste12

Hey everyone just a a sneak peak at whats to come Some of the wiring may or maynot be correct but here are some of the components we will be using with our pi dozer.Right now we are prototyping fixing some bugs. Hopefully soon everything will be done...
- 25 Feb 2014
The Channel One Temperature Sensor Works! - The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle

mazzmn

I've been blogging about my experience in Road Test reviewing the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle. As a part of this Road Test I'm creating a Fridge/Freezer Temperature Alarm system for our local food shelf, Channel 1. You can see where this Road Test s...
- 24 Feb 2014
Raspberry PI as a LAMP server

PEarle

I decided to set up my Raspberry PI as a dedicated LAMP server. (LAMP is an acronym that stands for LinuxApacheMysqlPhp and are components required to run a Dynamic HTML webpage.). All these components are Open Source ; Apache i...
- 21 Feb 2014
The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle - SoftballCam - 1

dougw

This blog is the first installment of a review of the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle provided by element14. In this review I will focus mainly on the video application I proposed that prompted element14 to so generously provide the comprehensive bundle...
- 20 Feb 2014
A child friendly multimedia center - Part 2: PiFace controlled XBMC

pdcleyn

IntroductionIn this post I will describe my initial tests to use the PiFace to control XBMC. This post is part of a series which is indexed on its introductory post. Installing and configuring needed softwareI initially started with a vanilla Ra...
- 19 Feb 2014
This is a must see.... 40 Pi cluster in a box!

WarrenW

http://likemagicappears.com/projects/raspberry-pi-cluster/
- 19 Feb 2014
A child friendly multimedia center - Part 1: project description

pdcleyn

Project overviewI would like to create a multimedia system which my (young) kids can control themselves. XBMC on the RPi is a great system and has lots of easy ways to control, but although fiddling around with a keyboard or with remote controls on s...
- 18 Feb 2014
Raspberry Pi + Java + NTX2 Radio Transmitter

dgashby

Introduction For the past 12 months or so after reading about the exploits of Dave Akerman and his first launching of a Raspberry Pi into near space I've been tinkering with the idea of launching a balloon myself. Although there ...
- 18 Feb 2014
Rapiro: Putting it together and getting it to work

fvan

Kit Assembly Rapiro Raspberry Pi Testing Arduino Sketch Commands via Pi Thank you Thanks to element14 and the Pi NoIR and Catch Santa Challenge, my daughter and I won a Rapiro kit with Raspberry Pi and Pi Camera. In this po...
- 16 Feb 2014
Valentine's Pi - Finale

zengirl2

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Here is my project looking all glam with the white paint, wire mesh and red LED. It's actually pretty much how I imagined it, plus or minus some Python coding challenges . It's succ...
- 14 Feb 2014
Pi Alarm System - Part 2: Wireless sensors

fvan

You can find part 1 here: Pi Alarm System - Part 1: Project and components description Wireless Sensors RF Modules Prototype test Triggers Switch Motion Conclusion Wireless SensorsThis post is focusing on the wireless sensors spread arou...
- 14 Feb 2014
Valentine's Pi - Epaper Love

zengirl2

www.youtube.com/watch Valentine's Day is almost here, and I'm doing some fast learning about Python in order to combine some programs for my display. I've got the Epaper display doing the Twitter monitor @LoveQuotes feed. Notice that the font wa...
- 13 Feb 2014