Kategorie: Linux
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How to run a script at start-up on a Raspberry Pi using crontab
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo you need to run a script whenever your Raspberry Pi turns on? Here’s Estefannie to explain how to edit crontab to do exactly that. How to start a script at start-up on a Raspberry Pi // LEARN SOMETHING Do you want your Raspberry Pi to automatically run your code when it…
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Win! One of five Raspberry Pi 4 and case bundles!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe
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Win! One of five Raspberry Pi 4 and case bundles!
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe
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Take your X-Plane 11 experience to new heights with this 3D-printed simulator
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTake your X-Plane 11 experience to new heights with this 3D-printed simulator Arduino Team — December 17th, 2019 Apparently not satisfied with a single PC monitor, aviation enthusiast Ryan H came up with his own custom, 3D-printable cockpit setup for the Garmin G1000 avionics suite. Designed around the X-Plane 11 flight…
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Raspberry Pi capacitive-touch musical Christmas tree
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat, your Christmas tree ISN’T touch-enabled? Capacitive Touch Christmas Tree How To | Raspberry Pi | Bare Conductive Pi Cap Turn your Christmas tree into a capacitive touch-interactive musical instrument using a Raspberry Pi and a Bare Conductive Pi Cap. You’ll be rocking around the Christmas tree in no time! /* Bare…
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10 Best Christmas projects
Reading Time: 3 minutesVR to RL Minecraft can be hacked with a bit of code so that you can make it do as you wish. But this also means that, via more code, it can interact with reality. David Stevens made it so changes to the Christmas tree in the game alter the lights outside. Clever! Advanced tree…
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Hack GraviTrax with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhen you get your starter set, you have to prepare the cardboard base by pushing out hexagons to leave holes to mount the tiles in. Do not discard these hexagons, because we are going to use them in our project. If you have already discarded them, then you’ll need to cut out…
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a synthesiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesSynthesiser? Synthesizer? Whichever it is*, check out this video of Floyd Steinberg showing how he set up his Raspberry Pi as one of them. How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer. Table of contents below! The Raspberry PI is a popular…
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Using a Raspberry Pi as a synthesiser
Reading Time: 2 minutesSynthesiser? Synthesizer? Whichever it is*, check out this video of Floyd Steinberg showing how he set up his Raspberry Pi as one of them. How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer How to use a Raspberry PI as a synthesizer. Table of contents below! The Raspberry PI is a popular…
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Code the Classics on sale now
Reading Time: 4 minutesTL;DR: we made a fully automated luxury gay space communist type-in-listing book. Buy it now and get it in time for Christmas. Back in the dawn of time, in the late 1980s, I grew up on a diet of type-in computer game listings. From the BBC Micro User Guide, to The Micro…
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Bob Clagett made an LED Christmas tree video game for his entire town to play
Reading Time: 3 minutesBob Clagett made an LED Christmas tree video game for his entire town to play Arduino Team — December 13th, 2019 Bob Clagett likes making holiday decorations. This year, however, he wanted to create something that didn’t just look nice, but was also interactive. What he came up with is a giant…
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Code the Classics now shipping
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnnounced on the Raspberry Pi blog a couple of weeks ago, Code the Classics has been available for pre-order and is eagerly awaited by Raspberry Pi fans around the world. The book is now shipping. If you pre-ordered a copy, it’ll be winging its way to you today, and you can still…
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Toddler busy board gets an RGB matrix upgrade
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToddler busy board gets an RGB matrix upgrade Arduino Team — December 12th, 2019 When Amir Avni made a busy board for his then-one-year-old daughter, he left a variety of buttons and switches unconnected. While these were still likely interesting at the time, now that she’s two, he’s added an Arduino…
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Really, really awesome Raspberry Pi NeoPixel LED mirror
Reading Time: 2 minutesCheck out Super Make Something’s awesome NeoPixel LED mirror: a 576 RGB LED display that converts images via the Raspberry Pi Camera Module and Raspberry Pi 3B+ into a pixelated light show. Neopixel LED Mirror (Python, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, 3D Printing, Laser Cutting!) DIY How To Time to pull out all the…
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The Swirl Machine
Reading Time: 4 minutes“The Swirl Machine is an interactive, digital-meets-the-real-world machine that swirls Santa Maria Valley wine and turns it into a digital piece of art,” say the team from KPS3, the marketing agency behind The Swirl Machine. “It was created and developed by KPS3 for Visit Santa Maria Valley. The machine allows users to…
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IoT ugly Christmas sweaters
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf there’s one thing we Brits love, it’s an ugly Christmas sweater. Jim Bennett, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, has taken his ugly sweater game to the next level by adding IoT-controlled, Twitter-connected LEDs thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero. IoT is Fun for Everyone! (Ugly Sweater Edition) An Ugly…
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Set up a Raspberry Pi retro games console
Reading Time: 8 minutesWhether you are nostalgic for the games of yesteryear or you’re simply dying to discover gaming’s rich history, all you ultimately need to get stuck in is a bunch of emulators and a stack of gaming ROMs. In the past, however, this has also entailed finding and downloading the BIOSes of various…
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Learn computing systems with Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Noam Nisan and Shimon Shocken Price: £25/$35 Modern computing systems are built on a stack of technologies. Right at the top, you have the operating system and high-level languages like Python. These sit above a virtual machine that communicates via assembly language to the hardware, which itself is built on a…
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Create a turn-based combat system | Wireframe #28
Reading Time: 4 minutesLearn how to create the turn-based combat system found in games like Pokémon, Final Fantasy, and Undertale. Raspberry Pi’s Rik Cross shows you how. With their emphasis on trading and collecting as well as turn-based combat, the Pokémon games helped bring RPG concepts to the masses. In the late 1970s, high school…
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theMIDInator is a marvelous MIDI controller
Reading Time: 2 minutestheMIDInator is a marvelous MIDI controller Arduino Team — December 9th, 2019 While you may know on some level that an Arduino can help you make music, you probably haven’t seen as good an implementation as this MIDI controller by Switch & Lever. The device features a numeric pad for note input,…
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Wearable synth plays programmed or random tunes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWearable synth plays programmed or random tunes Arduino Team — December 9th, 2019 Unless you’re very good, personal synths are fun for you — though often quite annoying for onlookers. After making his own wristwatch-based synth in 2016, Clem Mayer decided to build a new version that’s larger and louder than ever, and…
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Celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s 8th birthday at a Raspberry Jam
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 29 February 2020, the Raspberry Pi Foundation will celebrate the eighth birthday of the Raspberry Pi computer (or its second birthday, depending on how strict you are about counting leap years). Like any parent, we feel like time has flown by, and it’s remarkable to think how far we’ve come in…