Content for Raspberry PI

Water Leakage Sensor on ESP8266 + Micropython + Domoticz

“Some time ago, my wife asked me to make a water leakage sensor. She was afraid that the hose in the boiler room can be leaky, and the water would flood the newly laid wooden floor. And I as a …

Herb(ert): A Desk Plant with Automated Irrigation

“I have a history of over/under watering plants. Herb(ert) combines sensor data with edge IoT logic to automate watering and stay healthy! Story Inspiration In our connected world there is no excuse for letting houseplants die. I have …

Homemade Handheld Console

“Welcome to my step by step guide on how to create your own DIY GameBoy with a Raspberry Pi 3 and the Retropie emulation software. Before starting this project, I did not have any experience with raspberry pi, retropie, soldering …

Making the e-paper equivalent of an Etch-a-Sketch

“Introduction to e-Paper displays e-Paper (aka e-ink) displays are a fascinating new technology that most people will be most familiar with from the proliferation of Kindle and similar reading displays. The unique property of the e-paper display is that it …

New product: Raspberry PI 3 Model A+ on sale now at $25

“TL;DR: you can now get the 1.4GHz clock speed, 5GHz wireless networking and improved thermals of Raspberry Pi 3B+ in a smaller form factor, and at the smaller price of $25. Meet the Raspberry Pi 3 Model A …

Open Source Smart Home With Touchscreen Control Panel

“Using a Raspberry Pi and 7” touchscreen with nymea:core and nymea:app to build a smart home system with touch control panel. The story For a while now I’m using nymea as my smart home solution with nymea …

Farmaid: Plant Disease Detection Robot

“Robot that drives around autonomously in greenhouse environment and identifies diseases. Inspired by the work of plantvillage.psu.edu and iita.org, we wanted to use the DonkeyCar platform to build a autonomous robot that can move in a farm …

Introduction to MQTT

“In this tutorial, you’ll learn everything you need to know about the MQTT messaging protocol, why you would want to use it, and how it’s implemented. In a nutshell, MQTT uses your existing Internet home network to send …

Build a 3D Printed Autonomous Robot

“This robot build is meant to be relatively cheap and easy. Here is what you will need to get started: Hardware 1 3D Printed Frame 1 Raspberry Pi 1 Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver 1 Buck Converter 2 3V-6V DC Motors …

RaspiWWV - Simulated WWV Shortwave Audio Time Broadcast

“Remember the days when you would sit listening to WWV time signals on your Shortwave radio (tick, tick, tick At the tone, the time will be)? (Hear it on YouTube above) Oh! You missed out on that? Now you can …