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Build your own media centre with Raspberry Pi 3: Part 1

biglesp

Raspberry Pi Media Center: Part 1 Join Les Pounder as he guides us through turning a Raspberry Pi into a Media Center!Learn about Raspberry Pi, XBMC, Plex and even Kodi streaming services.Check out our other Raspberry Pi Projects on the projects home...
- 11 Oct 2017
IoT Garden Project 3: Ok Google...Water my garden!

biglesp

Raspberry Pi Projects - How does your IoT garden grow? Join Les Pounder as he works on his IoT Garden! Watch him integrate technology into his garden and maintain the health of his favorite plants.Check out our other Raspberry Pi Projects on the proj...
- 9 Oct 2017
[PROJECT] Scary Doll - Raspberry Pi Halloween project

Catwell

#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...
- 1 Oct 2017
IoT Garden Project 2: Self Watering Garden

biglesp

Raspberry Pi Projects - How does your IoT garden grow? Join Les Pounder as he works on his IoT Garden! Watch him integrate technology into his garden and maintain the health of his favorite plants.Check out our other Raspberry Pi Projects on the proj...
- 20 Sep 2017
Adding IR remote control to the Kodi media center running on a Raspberry Pi

Matt

You may have seen my blog post about creating a small portable media center that I can easily take on holiday to hook up to the hotel TV. If not, you can find it here; Raspberry Pi powered media center to take on holiday To reduce the amoun...
- 15 Sep 2017
Raspberry Pi Wireless Flickr Photoframe

alertjean

Here is my Raspberry Pi Wireless project to display daily Flickr explore photos on a used Apple Cinema Display:https://atticworkshop.blogspot.com/2017/08/raspberry-pi-zero-wireless-photoframe.html
- 14 Sep 2017
[Project] Raspberry Pi Washer/Dryer Text Alert System - IoT Retrofit appliances

Catwell

See my wireless motion detection system after this link, it's pretty awesome! Or, carry on... Disclaimer: I’m an engineer, not a pro film maker. Be advised.www.youtube.com/watchDisclaimer: I’m an engineer, not a pro film maker. Be advised.&n...
- 28 Aug 2017
Raspberry Pi Connected Picture Frame

fvan

This project is about a digital picture frame aimed at family members, such as grandparents. The idea is that parents taking pictures of their children, can easily share those pictures with the children's grandparents by making them appear on th...
- 28 Aug 2017
IoT Garden Project 1: How does your IoT garden grow?

biglesp

Raspberry Pi Projects - How does your IoT garden grow? Join Les Pounder as he works on his IoT Garden! Watch him integrate technology into his garden and maintain the health of his favorite plants.Check out our other Raspberry Pi Projects on the proj...
- 23 Aug 2017
Offload Raspberry Pi tasks with the i2C bus - turning stepper motors

Catwell

The Raspberry Pi 3 has ability to rapid fire pulses out of its GPIO. It's surprising how fast! In other words, it can handle a lot of tasks. If the only thing the Pi is expected to do is spin a stepper or servo motor really fast, this is go...
- 4 Jul 2017
Project Iron Pi Zero Mark II

ninjatrent

Project Iron Pi Zero Mark II Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 or Zero WRaspberry Pi 8MP NoIR Camera v2Adafruit Power Boost 1000C with Adafruit Approved Lipo BatteryMini USB MicrophoneUV, IR, and RGB LEDLaser ...
- 2 Jul 2017
Astrophotography with Raspberry Pi cam and telescope then streaming to phone

itsalivehobbies

This post will cover the basics of how I use a 3D printed camera mount to take photos of the moon using a Raspberry Pi cam. My telescope has a 1.5 inch eyepiece but you can download the 3D printable file and adjust the size to fit your needs. I am us...
- 11 Jun 2017
Raspberry Pi powered media center to take on holiday

Matt

We recently went on holiday and I took my laptop & VGA cable with me. It was my intention to hook it up to the TV and play some media on it to keep the kids happy on rainy days (pretty essential in the UK!). It turned out the TV had the VGA port ...
- 26 Apr 2017
A 1-minute mod for the official Raspberry Pi Zero case

fvan

Originally posted on: Pi Zero Case One-Minute Mod – Frederick Vandenbosch A 1-minute mod for the official Raspberry Pi Zero case, inspired by the ZeroView. Requires:Raspberry Pi Zero (W) with official caseRaspberry Pi Camera moduleHobby kn...
- 20 Mar 2017
PiTab v1: Retro Gaming Console (Handheld)

notch2112

Hello! I'm currently designing a project based off of the Nintendo Switch and modern gaming tablets, It's called PiTab (Pie-Tab) and it uses the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. It has two slots for controllers on the sides, and a screen in the middle. It als...
- 9 Mar 2017
Rpi - Audio over IP via OpenOB? Assistance please!

flyboyd

I'm looking at building an AoIP link using a pair of suitable Rpi's with Wolfson / Cirrus audio boards. Audio In/Out would be analog. The Ethernet link would be extended using Ubiquity wireless long range access point devices set up as a wireles...
- 9 Feb 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Running Blender

Workshopshed

In the previous parts of this series we've setup a shared network folder and some network nodes. Now we can actually get on with installing and using Blender. InstallationTo install blender the following is needed. sudo apt-get install ble...
- 6 Feb 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Setup of the nodes

Workshopshed

As shabaz mentioned in the previous comments a lot of the setup for a Pi Cluster applies to other scenarios. Something I stumbled upon this week was building a hadoop cluster with raspberry pi which is another thing you could do with the Bitscope bla...
- 4 Feb 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Setup of the controller

Workshopshed

Setup of the controller node SSH The latest raspbian disables SSH by default so I turned that on and changed the hostname and password. External diskAs mentioned about this is a USB disk, so it was simply a case of plugging it in and it bei...
- 22 Jan 2017
Raspberry Pi 2in1 Gaming Tablet

tobiassmullet

Morning all! I'm working on a little Pi Project, and I'd like to get your input on logistics or and ideas you might have to make it easier/better. Basically, I'd like to have a device that can run Retropie with dedicated gaming buttons, and...
- 17 Jan 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Pins

Workshopshed

Following a discussion from DABs review of the Bitscope Blade Uno, I thought it was worth quickly mentioning the different sockets and pins you get on the bays of the blade. Socket for PiThis is a standard 2mm x 40 way socket for mounting the Ra...
- 11 Jan 2017
How to transfer games to RetroPie ubuntu filezilla

itsalivehobbies

Here's a video I put together to explain how to ssh into retropie from another computer running ubuntu. This allows you to transfer games, or whatever files you want to any folders on your Raspberry pi 3. I kept the video short and to the pont, let m...
- 5 Jan 2017
Retro Computer Pi

toukomputer

"HELLO WORLD": My name is Xavi Lazaro and I live in Barcelona - Spain. As a fan of 80's computers I always dreamed to be in that garage era where one could build his own micro computer using some sort of kit and letting your imagination flow...&...
- 3 Jan 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Hardware

Workshopshed

As mentioned it the previous post, I'm building a small render farm for Blender using the Bitscope Blade. I decided to mount all the components on a sheet of wood so that I could pack the whole thing away when I was not using it. PowerBack i...
- 1 Jan 2017
Building a Render Farm with a Bitscope Blade Quatro - Plan of action

Workshopshed

The Bitscope Blade is from the same people who make the Bitscope Oscilloscope & Analyzer tools. It's a host board that allows you to host one to four raspberry Pi and provides power and connectivity. You can stack a series of blades into a chassi...
- 20 Dec 2016