How to Add Alexa to a Raspberry Pi (Or Any Linux Device) IoT For All (blog) DataArt developed an open solution that allows turning any Linux-based device into an Amazon Echo device. Since Raspberry Pi is the most popular board for IoT projects, we decided to use it in our setup. But basically, any Linux system can run the demo
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How to Add Alexa to a Raspberry Pi (Or Any Linux Device) – IoT For All (blog)
Hackaday Raspberry Pi Home Automation for the Holidays Hackaday Yeah, there are blinky lights and it's all controlled by his smartphone. That's just the basics.
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Raspberry Pi Home Automation for the Holidays – Hackaday
As you’ll know if you’ve been reading recently, you’ll know we’re sponsoring this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The lectures are broadcast this year on BBC4 at 8pm on December 29, 30 and 31 – and we’ve got a sneak peek for you today. First up, here’s a Tetris clone, being played on the side of a towerblock (yes, a Raspberry Pi was involved in the making of this demo): And a mixed robot/human orchestra playing the Dr Who theme
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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: sneak peek
October Raspberry Pi jam Torquay Herald Express 2. Sort program, this is was a demo of the article that Tom Brough wrote yesterday You can read the info http://www.dcglug.org.uk/network-sort-algorithm-animation/ If you would like to see the demo come to the Jam on the 8th November 2014.
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October Raspberry Pi jam – Torquay Herald Express
Sandy Walsh thought it’d be cool to host a trivia night in his living room. Most of us would make do with paper, biros and shouting: but it’s from little ideas like this that splendidly grandiose Raspberry Pi projects are born. In this case , projects involving a shipment of Chinese bike handles and a very large amount of speaker wire
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Triviabox: a DIY quiz show setup
The video of Eben’s LinuxCon keynote has just been made available: enjoy. If you’re one of those people who watches everything we do (we know you are out there, and you fascinate, delight and horrify us in equal measure), you’ll be familiar with most of the first 9 minutes or so. Scroll past that for the juicy stuff
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LinuxCon keynote
Although the lens on the Raspberry Pi camera board is nominally fixed-focus, we’ve found that with a bit of hackery, you can gently unscrew it from its mount and change the focal depth.
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Macro filming and photography with the camera board
Eben met Alex from RasPi.tv earlier this week, and was given this rather fantastic flag-waving kit for our demo table. (If you’ve got something you think we could use in demos at schools, in talks, and when we chat to the press, give me a shout at liz@raspberrypi.org – we’re always looking for new kit to show off.) This demo is something you can very easily set up yourself at home, if you’re interested in learning how to use servos. Alex’s setup means you won’t require any expansion boards – you’ll be ready to go with just a servo (very cheap from your local electronics shop – Alex’s cost him £3), some wire, some batteries and a few bits of wood.
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Flag-waving, without use of arm muscles
Eben met Alex from RasPi.tv earlier this week, and was given this rather fantastic flag-waving kit for our demo table. (If you’ve got something you think we could use in demos at schools, in talks, and when we chat to the press, give me a shout at liz@raspberrypi.org – we’re always looking for new kit to show off.) This demo is something you can very easily set up yourself at home, if you’re interested in learning how to use servos. Alex’s setup means you won’t require any expansion boards – you’ll be ready to go with just a servo (very cheap from your local electronics shop – Alex’s cost him £3), some wire, some batteries and a few bits of wood.
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Flag-waving, without use of arm muscles
Meltwater (of MagPi fame) has been working on some affordable teaching add-ons for the Pi. He’s demonstrating what you can do with one of his little kits with this natty tutorial where you’ll be creating your own Python library, and using it to do some low-level control of the GPIO
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Meltwater’s RGB LED libraries lesson