DIY
Open Source Artificial Pancreas ♥
This is pure awesomeness!!! https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/04/20/homemade-artificial-pancreas-system-for-type-1-diabetes-uses-raspberrypi-onlyhuman-wnyc/
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My tutorial used as a reference by University
Check out @Anwaarullah’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Anwaarullah/status/586966945779490817?s=09
IoT
Eclipse release IoT stack
The IoT (Internet of Things :P) space is getting pretty interesting. Eclipse (one of my fav IDEs) has now released a powerful IoT stack for Java developers to build awesome IoT applications. Check out more details here: http://iot.eclipse.org/java/ This is getting interesting 🙂 I need to try out a Read more…
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi Radio
Came across this interesting (and minimal) Raspberry Pi project on Makezine: makezine.com/projects/raspberry-pirate-radio/ This is pretty interesting as all you now need to have a broadcast FM channel is a Pi and a Wire 😉 Note: Unauthorized sending of signals over FM bands is restricted and also a punishable offense in Read more…
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Using Raspberry Pi to snoop into Wearables
So, The world of wearables is taking the world by storm. Android Wear, iWatch, Smartbands, Leychal (Smartshoes, proudly made in Hyderabad, India), etc. Here’s a nice anatomy of a wearable device: And here’s the many sensors found in a generic Smartphone: Imagine if you could grab all those data using Read more…
Android
Android 4.4 on the Raspberry Pi
Awesome!!! trevd just released his work on porting Android 4.4.4 to the Raspberry Pi. He wrote an elaborate post on the XDA forum here detailing the kinky features of what he’s done. Instructions for getting started can be found on his github repository. I’ll try this out myself and hopefully Read more…
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BerryIO – Web browser control for Raspberry Pi
This is little old though and something similar to WebIOPi, but it’s growing steadily and the features packed in are a treat for Pi and HW enthusiasts. Check out BerryIO here: https://github.com/NeonHorizon/berryio Just including one screenshot 🙂
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Interactive GPIO pin mapping for Raspberry Pi
Came across this awesome interactive pin mapping for the Raspberry Pi. This also includes some expander boards. Sorry, you do not have iframe working. Click here to go to the article. If the above frame doesn’t work, use this direct link: http://pi.gadgetoid.com/pinout
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Fixing the missing LxPanel bug when direct accessing Raspberry Pi shell
Heya Guys, If you followed our previous post (Direct SSH into Raspberry Pi in Headless Mode), you must have noticed that we were not able to get the lxpanel (the Start menu bar) of the Raspberry Pi and only the desktop was streamed. We had this tweak that solved the Read more…
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Controlling Raspberry Pi over the Internet using WebIOPi framework
I was struggling for some weeks getting this done, but just achieved a breakthrough. This post will brief out controlling the RasPi’s GPIOs over the network and demonstrating how easily it can be used as a powerful IOT device. Most of the details including the WebIOPi framework, libraries and scripts are Read more…
Linux
Sharing WiFi Internet connection with Raspberry Pi through LAN/Ethernet (Headless Mode)
After having setup the Raspberry Pi to work in headless mode directly without installing anything on it as described in this post, we then tinkered on to share WiFi internet connection with the Raspberry Pi through the LAN/Ethernet connection which we established in our earlier post. What you want Read more…
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Direct Access Raspberry Pi Shell and Desktop on Laptop/PC without installing anything on the Raspberry Pi OS or connecting it to a Display Unit
Before you go neck-deep into this post, please check if this post is applicable for you: What you want to do: Access Raspberry Pi’s desktop on Laptop/PC screen What you have: Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian Wheezy Laptop (Windows 7 or XP with Internet connection, required to download one Read more…
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Buying Raspberry Pi Online in India
There are now a couple of stores brewing around from where you can buy the Raspberry Pi online in India. Many of these stores also stock getting started kits and other accessories. Since, I’m based out of Hyderabad, I’d like to recommend PotentialLabs for buying Raspberry Pi if you’re based Read more…
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Internet of Things framework for the Raspberry Pi
For a start, one of the primary reasons for me to start a blog was to share those many links which otherwise I’d bookmark and lose track of them when I actually needed something. Secondly, I make notes in many mediums and maintaining and indexing them all was getting troublesome Read more…
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NOOBS introduced for RasPi
If downloading an Image, formatting it on a SD card and booting the image off the Pi wasn’t already easier, folks from the RasPi have come up with NOOBS for the RPi NOOBS 🙂 A single file (approx 1GB) that you now need to install on a freshly formatted SD Read more…
Arduino
Using Raspberry Pi as an AVR Programmer
Cool things are getting revealed as days progress and folks crank out every single byte RAM from that mean power machine. Here we’ve come across an awesome project where a Pi is being used as an AVR programmer. I’m hoping this will be more handy and now make me not Read more…
Python
Learning Python the Hard Way :)
After getting the RasPi, I was all the more excited to learn Python. I started it from this link http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ I'm currently in Exercise 22 which asks us to rewind what we've learned so far. So I made these notes and will post here for my quick reference. # Ex 22 Asks to go back and revist all the symbols and words and understand what they all do.. I'm' gonna begin from ex1 (more…)
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40+ Cool Ideas which might interest you in RasPing :)
I came across this nice article with links to some awesome projects which you’d like to get started on using the RPi. http://pingbin.com/2012/12/30-cool-ideas-raspberry-pi-project/ Hope you generate more ideas of your own 🙂 Cheers!!!
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Using Desktop Screen for streaming RasPi content
Fret not if you don’t have access to a HDMI input device or even a simple A/V TV. I don’t have either :), buy would still want to see the Pi in action. Checkout this cool article on setting up the PCs screen to use with Pi with the help Read more…
Linux
Install Kali ARM on a Raspberry Pi
Check out this amazing link to install Kali (re-created debian based BackTrack) on a RPi. Source: http://docs.kali.org/armel-armhf/install-kali-linux-arm-raspberry-pi Cheers!!!