by Dominic | Feb 17, 2022 | Circuits, Hardware, Sensors, Tutorials
Motion Sensors Motion detection can be done quite easily by using the GPIO ports of the Raspberry Pi and a motion sensor. Motion detectors use a Pyroelectric sensor which triggers a signal pin when exposed to infra red (IR) radiation, when a person or an animal…
by Dominic | Feb 12, 2022 | Hardware, Tutorials
Raspberry Pi Camera The Pi Camera from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a great little unit that connects directly to your Raspberry Pi via a ribbon cable to the dedicated CSI (Camera Serial Interface), located just behind the Ethernet port. The Raspberry Pi Camera…
by Dominic | Jan 3, 2022 | Hardware, Software, Tutorials
Why Cayenne? If writing software isn’t really your thing but you still want to create an interesting Internet of Things (IOT) project then you should definitely look into using Cayenne and the Raspberry Pi as a solution. myDevices is the company…
by Dominic | Dec 3, 2021 | Getting Started, Hardware
Soldering Basics Soldering is one of the skills that can really expand what you are able to do as an electronics hobbist and fortunately it not difficult to learn. By practicing some basic techniques you can open up a whole world of new projects with…
by Dominic | Oct 9, 2022 | Circuits, Getting Started, Hardware
Simple Raspberry Pi GPIO Circuits Interacting with electronic circuits is one of the great things you can do with the Raspberry Pi, utilising it’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) ports. If you are new to making electronic circuits then you do…
by Dominic | Jul 17, 2022 | Hardware, Pool Monitor, Projects, Sensors
Atlas Scientific Temperature Sensor There are several temperature sensors that are available for your Raspberry Pi one of the most popular being the DS18B20, however if you are looking for an I2C connected temperature sensor then the Atlas Scientific…
