Raspberry Pi Geek 09

For just a small amount of money, you can turn any television set into a multi-use, smart TV by adding a Raspberry Pi and XBMC. In this article, we will help you start out with the XBMC media center.

The Raspberry Pi makes an ideal LAN server; connect several Rasp Pis and a low-cost root server, and you have a cluster before you know it.

AirPlay lets you send music from iTunes to AirPlay-capable receivers. Now you can use Shairport to retrofit a Rasp Pi and avoid the expense of purchasing an AirPlay receiver.

Enjoy a crash course on some of the text-processing and -filtering capabilities found in Linux.

When the Rasp Pi GPIO connection capabilities are insufficient for your project, you can turn to the industry-standard I2C data bus to communicate with actuators and sensors.

A watchdog timer is a great way of improving reliability for little cost in small, inexpensive computers such as the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

Build a secret message encoder with Morse code.