Using Initial State to Build a Quantified Coffee Machine
We like to feature unique and interesting applications of single-board computer (SBC) projects from the maker community, and how that data is streamed and visualized within Initial State. If you’d like...
View ArticleTutorial: Beer/Wine Fridge of Awesomeness
How do you take a perfectly good beer or wine fridge and make it awesome? A good start is to have your refrigerator tell you how many bottles are in it, when the door is open or closed, and the...
View ArticleTutorial: PiOT 101 – Raspberry Pi + Internet of Things
*Updated on Aug 21, 2015 to include a chapter on building a real-time sensor dashboard Are you looking for a thorough “getting started” tutorial that takes you from unboxing your Pi to putting together...
View ArticleTutorial: Your Sensors and Single-Board Computers Speak Emoji 😎
Emojis – those wonderful, wordless forms of communication have quickly spread to nearly every aspect of our digital vocabulary. A single emoji can provide context and invoke emotion more efficiently...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Project: Wireless Pool Temperature Sensor
In our SBC Project series, we feature unique and interesting single-board computer (SBC) projects from the maker community. If you’d like to share your Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, or other SBC...
View ArticleTutorial: Raspberry Pi Sense Hat Integration with Initial State
Charles Gantt at Element14 just posted installment #003 of his project, Foginator 2000. In this post, he covers getting a Raspberry Pi Sense Hat running and connected to Initial State to record,...
View ArticleTutorial: Hyper-local Weather Dashboard Using Wunderground + Pi Sense HAT
Let’s face it, we humans talk about the weather a lot ⛅️. The average person talks about the weather four times a day, for an average of 8 minutes and 21 seconds. Do the math and that totals 10 months...
View ArticleTutorial: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Smart Home Hub
We live in a wonderful time where incredibly capable devices with internet connectivity cost less than $20. This makes developing your own “Internet of Things” things easier than ever. An ever-growing...
View ArticleNEW! Raspberry Pi GPS Tracker
Here is an updated tutorial for setting up a Raspberry Pi GPS Tracker in an even simpler, more reliable way with less hardware! You just need a Raspberry Pi 2 with Jessie and an Adafruit Ultimate GPS...
View ArticleTutorial: The GrovePi Plug-N-Stream Data Playground
The ready availability of so many different kind of sensors is incredible. Temperature, humidity, motion, ultrasonic, air quality, sound, light, pressure, gas, moisture, UV, PH, … the list goes on and...
View ArticleTutorial: Protect Your Girl Scout Cookies with a Raspberry Pi
Admit it. Few things in this world bother you more than when someone opens up your favorite box of Girl Scout cookies and starts devouring that luscious goodness that you look forward to all year. You...
View Article9 of the Best Raspberry Pi Projects
Our favorite is #9, but we are a little biased 🍻. Many thanks to RS Components for making this infographic! The post 9 of the Best Raspberry Pi Projects appeared first on .
View ArticleBuild Your Own Hackable, Weight Tracking, Text Messaging Scale with a Sense...
Are you tired of staring at that stupid, soulless, bearer of bad news bathroom scale every morning? The one that you often say “I hate you” to as if it might hear you and give a damn. Why hasn’t anyone...
View ArticleAnalyze the Astro Pi Space Data in Your Web Browser
Introduction On December 9, 2015, two augmented Raspberry Pi single-board computers (aka the Astro Pis) were delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) via the Cygnus spacecraft. Part of...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Add-On Board Gains Data Logger/Streamer
You guys might remember one of our posts from way back when on the Pi-Plates DAQCplate board. If you don’t, the DAQCplate is an add-on board for your Raspberry Pi that gives it all sorts of extra...
View ArticleCreate a System Health Dashboard for your Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pis are being used to drive a ridiculous number of projects ranging from fun hobby projects to mission critical functions. Despite being small, user-friendly, and inexpensive, your Pi...
View ArticleCellular & GPS Enabled Pi Zero: Fona + Pi Zero
What if your Raspberry Pi Zero could access internet services from anywhere? What if your Fona Cellular GSM and GPS breakout had the brains of a full Linux computer behind it? What if you could access...
View ArticleTutorial & Review: Enviro pHAT for Raspberry Pi
The Enviro pHAT from Pimoroni is an add-on board for Raspberry Pi with a set of sensors on-board to capture temperature, pressure, motion, light, and color. The size of pHAT boards match the size of a...
View ArticleKnow Who’s at the Office with the Raspberry Pi
Looking for an easy and useful project for that Raspberry Pi you just have lying around? Setup a sensor-free presence detector to let you know when someone’s close enough to connect to the WiFi! Know...
View ArticleTrack the International Space Station!
Who doesn’t love space? Seriously. Especially when we live in a glorious day and age of public space data! Thanks to NASA and Open Notify, we can access data about where the International Space Station...
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