It’s a public holiday here today (yes, again ). So, while we indulge in the traditional pastime of barbecuing stuff (ourselves, mainly), here’s a little trove of Pi projects that cater for our various furry friends. Project Floofball Nicole Horward created Project Floofball for her hamster, Harold
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Project Floofball and more: Pi pet stuff
This column is from The MagPi issue 55 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet.
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Pi for the connected home
Google is going to arrive in style in 2017. The tech titan has exciting plans for the Raspberry Pi community, with a range of AI and machine learning services ready to roll. A robot built at one of our Picademy@Google sessions To make this happen, Google needs help from the Raspberry Pi community.
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Help Google develop tools for Raspberry Pi
“The project idea came from this tongue-in-cheek Twitter post. But hey, why not try to make one? I read somewhere that the world needs more ridiculous smart devices”. These are the words of Eric Tsai , a maker of connected devices and home automation, on his website etsai.net .
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Internet of Things Pregnancy Test
Many of you have been using the Raspberry Pi as a platform for internet of things (IoT) hacking. With wired and wireless communication on board, Raspberry Pi 3 is a great platform for connecting the network, and network-accessible services, to the real world. Where we’re going, we don’t need roads Voice recognition can add a whole new dimension to IoT projects
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Internet of Voice Challenge with Amazon and hackster.io
This is a great beginner’s project from Red Reef Digital for those new to Node-RED . Node-RED is IBM’s browser-based, visual tool – looking just like a flow chart – for IoT programming. It seemed to come out of nowhere a couple of years ago, but it’s very easy to get your head around, and we’ve seen some great stuff done with it. (Winner?
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Ring a bell with Node-RED and Twitter
Altitude Technology have a very interesting Kickstarter campaign that’s just entering its final few days.
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Sensly: an air quality monitoring HAT
Determined to redress the moggie-doggie bias of the internet Lauren Orsini decided to use a Raspberry Pi and a waterproof temperature sensor to monitor her fish tank . It’s not a recent project but it deserves a place here because it’s such a brilliant introduction to physical computing on the Raspberry Pi: one sensor, one purpose and a few lines of “English with a funny syntax” (aka Python). It’s a great tutorial too—Lauren writes clearly and shares her beginner’s point of view, documenting things that more experienced people might take for granted
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Fish tank temperature probe: an ideal beginner’s project
Jamie Bailey from Initial State , the Internet of Things (IoT) data solutions company, recently posted this how-to for creating a Beer/Wine Fridge of Awesomeness : How do you take a perfectly good beer or wine fridge and make it awesome? A good start is to have your refrigerator tell you how many bottles are in it, when the door is open or closed, and the temperature inside your fridge.
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Beer and Wine Fridge of Awesomeness