Raspberry Pi Geek 07

The Raspberry Pi GPIO interface offers the perfect starting point from which to control devices, such as turning lights on and off, starting the coffee machine in the morning, or turning on the TV and playing your favorite movies at scheduled times.

The Hover board is an intriguing piece of hardware that will make interacting with your Raspberry Pi much more interesting.

After losing one weather station to tropical winds, the author reboots and designs a PCB that connects to an Arduino and monitors weather instruments.

We show how to use PyGame to implement a fully playable version of the classic "robots" game.

Getting started with PHP on Raspberry Pi is easy. We show how to build a simple PHP app to control an LED.

Your Raspberry Pi comes with many powerful components, but it doesn't have a built-in clock. If your project needs to keep time, and you don't have a reliable Internet connection for NTP updates, you'll need a real-time clock.

The quick-reaction game provides an introduction to building simple circuits with the Raspberry Pi and controlling those circuits with ScratchGPIO, an advanced version of Scratch.

In the not too distant future the Raspberry Pi will take off from its humble beginnings on this planet and make a voyage into space. We review the CubeSat Project and talk to Patrick Stakem, an educator and pioneer of open source in space.