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Raspberry Pi WiFi Radio
Internet-streamed music around the house
by Phillip Burgess
Raspberry Pi, the little wonder-puter that’s taken the world by storm, is so affordable that we can create single-purpose “appliances” around them without shame. Here’s our take on one of the more popular such applications: internet streaming media, the Pandora music service specifically.
Internet of Things Printer for Raspberry Pi
Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding!
by Phillip Burgess
Build an "Internet of Things" connected mini printer that will do your bidding! This is a fun weekend project that comes with a beautiful laser cut case. Once assembled, the little printer connects wirelessly to get Internet data for printing onto 2 1/4" wide receipt paper.
Large Pi-based Thermometer and Clock
Build a large LED Thermometer / Clock using a Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
This project combines a whole heap of modules to enable a Raspberry Pi to power a large 1.2 inch 4 digit 7 segment display. A small switch switches the display between showing the temperature and the current time. The project uses a real-time clock (RTC) to ensure that the Pi always has the correct time, even if it is not connected to the Internet.
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Using an IR Remote with a Raspberry Pi Media Center
Control your Raspberry Pi Media Centre with an IR Remote
by Simon Monk
In this tutorial, you will learn how to use an Infrared remote with a Raspberry Pi configured as a media center. The IR receiver is attached to the GPIO connector on the Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi as a Media Center
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a media center
by Simon Monk
The low cost and full HD video playing capabilities of the Raspberry Pi make it ideal for building your own media center. This will allow you to play music and videos through your Raspberry Pi onto a TV.
Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 13. Power Control
Control 110V devices from your Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will combine the PIR sensor from [Lesson 12] with the Powerswitch Tail 2 module from Adafruit, to automatically switch something on when movement is detected.
Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 12. Sensing Movement
Sense movement and doors opening with your Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to use the digital inputs on the GPIO connector with a door sensor and a PIR motion detector.
Using a Mini PAL/NTSC Display with a Raspberry Pi
Use a tiny composite video display with a Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
In this tutorial, you will learn how to attach a miniature display to your Raspberry Pi and to adjust the Pi's settings to reduce the resolution sufficiently to read the screen.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 11. DS18B20 Temperature Sensing
Measure temperature with your Raspberry Pi using the DS18B20
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to use a DS18B20 with the Raspberry Pi to take temperature readings. Since the Raspberry Pi has no ADC (Analog to Digital Converter), it cannot directly use an analog temperature sensor like the TMP36, making the DS18B20 a good choice for temperature sensing.
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Adafruit Ultimate GPS on the Raspberry Pi
Adding GPS tracking to your Pi-based projects
by Kevin Townsend
This tutorial will show you how you can get started quickly with GPS on your Raspberry Pi using Adafruit's Ultimate GPS Breakouts.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 10. Stepper Motors
Control a stepper motor with a L293D or ULN2803
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to control a stepper motor using your Raspberry Pi and the same L293D motor control chip that you used with the DC motor in Lesson 9. The Lesson will also show you how to use an alternative driver chip, the ULN2803.
Debugging with the Raspberry Pi WebIDE
When your LED's just won't blink.
by Justin Cooper
Learn how to use the Raspberry Pi WebIDE to better understand your code, or to solve any bugs you may have. Step through, and quickly fix your code!
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 9. Controlling a DC Motor
Drive a DC motor forward and in reverse with variable speed
by Simon Monk
This lesson describes how to control both the speed and direction of a DC motor using Python and an L293D chip.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 8. Using a Servo Motor
Write a Python program to control a servo motor with a Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
Write a Python program to control a servo motor with a Raspberry Pi using the Occidentalis Servo/PWM kernel module.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 7. Remote Control with VNC
Work on your Raspberry Pi graphically, from another computer
by Simon Monk
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 6. Using SSH
Learn how to remote control your Raspberry Pi using SSH
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to remote control your Raspberry Pi over your local network using Secure Shell (SSH).
Sitcom SFX Door Trigger
A sitcom soundtrack for your life
by James DeVito
Using a Raspberry Pi, some sensors, and a speaker, you can fulfill that life-long dream of having sound effects play every time you walk into - or out of - a room.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 5. Using a Console Cable
Learn how to Connect to your Raspberry Pi with a Console Cable
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to remote control your Raspberry Pi with a console cable.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 4. GPIO Setup
Learn how to set up your Pi for Hacking Electronics
by Simon Monk
In this tutorial, you are not actually building anything, but you will learn how to configure your Raspberry Pi and install useful libraries ready to start attaching some external electronics to it.
Chumby Hacker Board
All the joy of Chumby, with extra chewy breakouts!
by lady ada
A collection of mini-tutorials on doing stuff with the Chumby Hacker Board. The CHB is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It's great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals of a microcontroller such as analog-to-digital conversion, PWM outputs, sensors, bit twiddling, and broken-out GPIOs!
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 3. Network Setup
Learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly or with Ethernet
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, you will learn how to connect to the Internet wirelessly and with an Ethernet cable, and also find the IP address of your Raspberry Pi.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 2. First Time Configuration
Set up your Raspberry Pi for the first time
by Simon Monk
In this lesson, we will show you how to set up your Raspberry Pi the first time you boot it up.
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Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Lesson 1. Preparing an SD Card for your Raspberry Pi
by Simon Monk
This lesson shows you how to create an SD card for your Raspberry Pi.
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Adafruit 16x2 Character LCD + Keypad for Raspberry Pi
This new Adafruit Pi Plate makes it easy to use an 16x2 Character LCD with a Keypad
by lady ada
This new Adafruit Pi Plate makes it easy to use an RGB 16x2 Character LCD. We really like the RGB Character LCDs we stock in the shop. Unfortunately, these LCDs do require quite a few digital pins, 6 to control the LCD and then another 3 to control the RGB backlight for a total of 9 pins. With this in mind, we wanted to make it easier for people to get these LCD into their projects so we devised a Pi plate that lets you control a 16x2 Character LCD, up to 3 backlight pins AND 5 keypad pins using only the two I2C pins on the R-Pi!
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MCP230xx GPIO Expander on the Raspberry Pi
Add 8 or 16 extra GPIO pins to your pia via I2C
by Kevin Townsend
Using the MCP230xx GPIO expanders on the Raspberry Pi to add 8 or 16 additional GPIO ports to your board.
Pi Video Output Using pygame
Add a video display to your Pi!
by Kevin Townsend
How to use pygame to generate graphics using the composite or HDMI video output on your Raspberry Pi
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Adafruit WebIDE
The easiest way to develop code on your Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone
by Tyler Cooper
The Adafruit WebIDE is by far the easiest way to run code on your Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone. Just connect your Pi or BeagleBone to your local network, and log on to the WebIDE in your web browser.
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Adding a Real Time Clock to Raspberry Pi
Keep time at all times with a real time clock
by lady ada
To keep costs low, the Raspberry Pi does not include a Real Time Clock module. Instead, users are expected to have it always connected to WiFi or Ethernet and keep time by checking the network. Since we want to include an external module, we'll have to wire one up. We'll go with the easy-to-use and low-cost DS1307.
Matrix and 7-Segment LED Backpack with the Raspberry Pi
by Kevin Townsend
Getting started with 7-segment and 8x8 LED arrays using our easy LED Backpack
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DHT Humidity Sensing on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black with GDocs Logging
Humidity and Temperature Logging From Your Pi or Beaglebone Black to the Cloud!
by lady ada
In this tutorial we'll be showing how to utilize a DHT sensor Python library based on C for high-speed GPIO polling to handle bit-banged sensor output. Many low cost sensors have unusual output formats, and in this case, a "Manchester-esque" output that is not SPI, I2C or 1-Wire compatible must be polled continuously by the Pi to decode. Luckily, the C GPIO libraries are fast enough to decode the output.