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OLED display application for Raspberry Pi
Python script to output status information to a small OLED screen connected to a Raspberry Pi.
I'm relatively new at writing python so although the app works and outputs correct information it is far ...
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Raspberry PI controllable Christmas Tree
After having the scales, thermometer and a coffeemaker connected to the internet, it is finally time for Christmas Tree to become smarter.
Hardware
6ft Christmas Tree
An addressable WS2811 LED strip (...
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Python siren control
Below is some code I've put together to contol a siren for a fire service.
It works by webscraping a paging feed and looks for set triggers.
Is there a better way of doing my code or is this "...
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Reading a DHT11 to a file
Disclaimer: not a Pythonista, first actual Python programme written right here.
I'm reading a DHT11 sensor from GPIO pin 4 on my Raspberry Pi (thanks Thomas Ward for sending the RPi to me), and I want ...
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Script that reads data over usb from Arduino to RaspberryPi, cleans it up and publishes to an MQTT broker
This is a continuation from this question:
Reading analog moisture signal from Arduino over USB to RPi3 and publishing via paho MQTT
I made the advised changes, and added a bunch of new stuff, I'd ...
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RC Plane Radio using the Raspberry Pi
This python code is for a homemade remote-control (RC) plane radio using the Raspberry Pi and a USB joystick. It sends values over serial to DSM2/X module for RC planes and other RC vehicles. This ...
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Pygame Slideshow
I have written a basic slideshow program that uses pygame to manage the display screen. It cycles through all pictures files in the directory and sub-directories. There is a user configuration section ...
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Building thermostat state machine in Python
I used a Raspberry Pi and Adafruit LCD with buttons to build a small thermostat for my house.
This is the hardware I used to you can imagine how the button and the code work:
https://www.adafruit.com/...
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Raspberry Pi Safe Clean Up - the decorator way
Yesterday, I've come up with the idea of using python context manager to ensure cleanup available here. This time I am using that context manager to make a ...
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Raspberry Pi GPIO safe clean up
We are always told to call GPIO.cleanup() before we exit our Pi programs. I've seen people using try ... catch ... finally to ...
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Raspberry Pi LED for new emails
I'm learning how to use Python with the Raspberry Pi. I successfully followed the tutorial for how to have a Python script run on the Pi to check for new email and turn on an LED if any new messages ...
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Ping Pong Pi - A Ping Pong score and serving manager
I have spent a few hours on this code, but think it could be improved a bit. It requires eSpeak to be installed to run the speech synthesis, but the voice can be toggled on or off using the ...
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