Interfacing MAX7219 with Raspberry Pi

The MAX7219 is extraordinary IC from Maxim which allows us to control many LEDs utilizing only a ...

Turn Raspberry Pi into a wireless access point

In this post I will demonstrate how to transform the Raspberry Pi into a Wireless Access Point. T...

Raspberry Pi LED Status Indicator Info

There are 5 status LED's on the Raspberry Pi board namely [OK, PWR, FDX, LNK, 10M]. FDX, LNK, 10M...

Reading Analog Values From Digital Pins Of Raspberry Pi

Unfortunately all the 17 pins of Raspberry Pi are digital which can either output HIGH or LOW. But ...

Convert your Raspberry Pi into media center with XBMC

With the help of XBMC you can transform your Raspberry Pi into a full fledged media center.  XBMC  ...

Interfacing 16x2 LCD with Raspberry Pi using GPIO & Python

In my previous  post  I had used an 8 bit i2c port expander to drive the 16x2 LCD. It saved preciou...

Testing Raspberry Pi's Power Supply

Raspberry Pi requires a good power supply to function properly under full load conditions.It uses a...

7 Segment Multiplexing With Raspberry Pi

7 segments can be driven using many different techniques in conjunction with software and hardware...

Interfacing ADC with Raspberry Pi

In this post I will demonstrate how you can utilize a modest PICAXE micro-controller as a multi ch...

PWM on Raspberry Pi

With only one hardware PWM pin on Raspberry Pi it can be quite a problem with Arduino users like ...

Interfacing Temperature and Humidity Sensor (DHT11) With Raspberry Pi

DHT11 is a 4 pin sensor which can measure temperatures ranging from 0-50°C & relative humidity ra...

Running Pi Headless - with GUI part3

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate how to use the pi with remote GUI. It involves the following ...

Running Pi headless - SSH tunneling part2

In this tutorial, I will demonstrate the following:- 1. Login through ssh 2. Changing pi's p...

Running Pi headless - SSH tunneling part1

Pi normally needs hardware support like keyboard, mouse, display( HDMI compatible monitors). But w...

Arduino vs Raspberry Pi

Ever since the Raspberry Pi was announced, it has been a topic of much debate online.Starting fr...

Using GPIO on Raspberry Pi to blink an LED

One of the few things that separates the Pi from other SBC ( Single Board Computer )  is the abilit...

Bluetooth pairing on Raspberry Pi with smartphone

Follow the steps below to pair your Raspberry Pi with your smartphone:- 1. Load a new wheezy ras...

Setting up webcam on Raspberry Pi

I wanted to find out if the Raspberry Pi supports webcam or not. So I pulled an old Microsoft LifeC...

Interfacing a 16x2 LCD with Raspberry Pi

Hitachi HD44780 based 16x2 character LCD are very cheap and widely available, and is a essential...

Overclocking the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi uses the Broadcom BCM2835 system-on-chip (SoC) processor which was originally devel...

Raspberry Pi temperature sensor using TMP102

The TMP102 is an I2C temperature sensor from Texas Instruments.It's a perfect sensor for Raspberry ...