Sensor Dashboard Using Raspberry Pi, MYSQL, and Highcharts
This tutorial will walk you through the process of getting data from the BME280 Temperature, Pressure, and Humidity sensor to be displayed on a local webserver. We will log the [ . . . ]
Make Water into a Fiber Optic Cable
In this demonstration, we will use a few handy materials to show how a stream of water behaves like a fiber optic cable. Materials An empty 2L bottle (preferably [ . . . ]
STEM Across the Bay – Arduino Code
Some Arduino Code for STEM Across the Bay Blink One LED This code will blink a single LED for one second. The main features of this code are: pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT); [ . . . ]
Using the BMP280 Temp/Press Sensor on the Raspberry Pi
I recently discovered that the BMP180 sensor has been discontinued, which is kind of a bummer. I always found it to be a good little sensor for temperature and pressure. [ . . . ]
BME280 Sensor
Test of the BME Sensor
LED Backpack with the Arduino Gemma
I recently picked up an Arduino Gemma from Adafruit in the hopes that I could make some blinking pendants for an upcoming science night. After a little trial and error, [ . . . ]
Make a Pinhole Camera
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. One out of three isn’t bad. Cardboard is a very versatile material, and its seems to be everywhere, just waiting to be reused. This activity is going [ . . . ]
Get an Email with your IP Address
I often struggle with finding the IP address of my Raspberry Pi. I usually need to plug it into a monitor, get its address, and then log in to it [ . . . ]
Connecting the Raspberry Pi and Dropbox
This tutorial is built on the amazing piece of software made by Andrea Fabrizi. I found it on Raspi.tv and it is one of the handiest things I have come [ . . . ]
Sending Email from the Raspberry Pi
Lets say you are like me, and all of your ‘friends’ are really robots. My most recent friend, the Raspberry Pi needs to be able to send me email. The [ . . . ]