Arduino on Raspberry Pi
Connecting an Arduino to a Raspberry Pi is simple. In a terminal, install the Arduino IDE: sudo apt-get install arduino This will take a while to download and install all of the dependencies. Once...
View ArticleArduino USB HID Keyboard
Turn your Arduino UNO into a USB HID keyboard, and make buttons that do whatever you want. Make it a useful tool, with new buttons for Cut/Copy/Paste or Volume+/Volume-/Mute, or annoy your friends and...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Physical Gmail Notifier
This tutorial will demonstrate how to easily turn your Raspberry Pi into a physical Gmail notifier, in only 10 lines of python! If the configured Gmail account has unread messages, the LED will be...
View ArticleArduino Physical CPU Gauges
Use Arduino and two hobby servos to control physical servo gauges for cpu activity, memory usage, bandwidth, and more. The script uses the python psutil and pyserial modules. The psutil module...
View ArticlePeer Guardian on Raspberry Pi
This tutorial will show how to compile and install Peer Guardian on a Raspberry Pi. The process requires the at least the 2012-06-18-wheezy-beta.zip or newer Debian image (or manual kernel...
View ArticleDropbox on Raspberry Pi via SSHFS
This tutorial will demonstrate how to mount Dropbox (or any filesystem) over the network on the Raspberry Pi using SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem). For this procedure to work for your Dropbox share,...
View ArticleEasily connect Raspberry Pi to Gmail, Facebook, Twitter & more!
Easily connect your Raspberry Pi to web services and social networks! This tutorial demonstrates how to painlessly send and receive Gmail on the Raspberry Pi from Python, which in turn, allows you to...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi + PWM RGB LED Strip
This tutorial demonstrates how to easily use a Raspberry Pi to drive 12V RGB LED strips using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM). Out of the box, the Raspberry Pi has only one GPIO pin that is capable of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Google Talk Robot
Google Talk/Chat/Messenger is normally used by humans to interact with other humans. However, its underlying technology can also be used as a mechanism to implement software robots. Internet bots,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OpenCV Pan & Tilt Face Tracker
Create your own face tracking, pan and tilt camera on the Raspberry Pi! This tutorial will demonstrate use of the OpenCV (computer vision) library to identify and track faces on the raspberry pi using...
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