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4-Bot A Raspberry Pi Connect 4 Robot!

“Been a while since I last posted anything this one has been a work in progress for some time now. My wife bought me a MeArm kit at PiWars at the end of last year which is a brilliant little …

An elegant, stacking, Real Time Clock for Raspberry Pi

“If you want to build a good Real Time Clock for your Raspberry here’s the tutorial you were looking for! This is a revised and simplified version for Instructables made out of this article at my personal blog. Difference …

Automated cooling fan for Pi

“A simple design to control a mini 5v fan with python, without the need of a breadboard, transistors etc. All you need are a few cables and a 1 channel relay. I had a 2 channel relay which i recommend …

Binary Punched Card Reader

“Kids start by writing a word on a card. Below each letter, they write the corresponding number using an encoding table (a=1, b=2, etc). Below each of those numbers are 5 holes, representing 1 bit and labeled 16 …

Multiple Fermentation Chamber Control with BrewPi

“In this Instructable I will try to explain how I built a BrewPi based fermentation chamber control system for multiple chamber control. If you are a brewer like me, you don’t usually have just one beer going at a …

Raspberry Pi Shutdown Button

“As everyone at some point will recognise the Raspberry Pi doesn’ t include any kind of shutdown button. So the only way to power it off is by unplugging it from the power supply. To make sure you get no …

Analog Thumbstick and the Raspberry Pi

“For a while now I have wanted to try using analog inputs with my Raspberry Pi. The Pi hardware only supports digital inputs, but it is also capable of communicating with expansion chips using an interface called Serial Peripheral Interface …

Raspberry Pi Beekeeping Server

“Beekeeping (or apiculture, from Latin: apis “bee”) is the maintenance of honey bee colonies, commonly in hives, by humans. A beekeeper (or apiarist) keeps bees in order to collect their honey and other products that the hive produces (including beeswax …

Raspberry Pi Controlled Sofa

“Since getting married a couple of months ago Im slowly getting back into the swing of things! It has been a busy few months as I have also left my school of nine years and will be starting a new …

Raspberry Pi Fridge Minder: receive an email when the door is opened

“The kit comes with project cards and a link to download the accompanying Python scripts. And projects already include a light meter and email notifier, so I decided to combine these two projects into one and make something that will …