There are lots of ways to get audio out of your little Raspberry PI. The first, and easiest way to get started playing MP3 Files is this: omxplayer The PI Foundation Way The Raspberry PI foundation wrote up a little article to it here. I wont repeat their advice, so if you want to just… Continue reading Lessons on PI 6: Playing Audio on a Raspberry PI
How can the PI be a Wifi Access Point??? The Linksys hardware pictured above is synonymous with wifi routers. Under the covers its just a dedicated Linux box and some fancy software. Turns out your PI can be that “dedicated Linux box” piece. In this post, we will cover turning your Raspberry PI into something… Continue reading Easily turn your PI3 into a Wifi Router!!! (Raspberry PI 3 as a Host AP – in code!)
For a little servo background… See my article on the servo-trigger: Servo Triggers – Quickest, Fastest, Easiest way to make your servos dance To install node… See my NodeJS installation article: Installing NodeJS on a Raspberry PI Then… a little something on PWM Ok, a little background: Controlling servos works by using something called PWM or Pulse Width… Continue reading Controlling Servos from your PI (No extra hardware needed) using NodeJS
There are two ways… The easiest is to install using the package manager. Recently though I ran into an issue where the folks providing the package manager version forgot to include the ARMv6 build. If that’s the case while you attempt, move onto the tarball method and you’ll be up and running in no time.… Continue reading Installing NodeJS on a Raspberry PI
One of the things a good magic wand should do is respond to magic incantations. This guide will take you through getting Google Cloud Speech APIs functioning on your Raspberry PI 3 so that you can trigger speech recognition through a button press on your magic wand. The Microphone… Before you can get speech… you… Continue reading The complete guide to enabling speech recognition on an RPI3… in NodeJS
I’ve covered this in several other articles as a side effect of getting those higher level goals complete. But given a simple Google Search failed me… here is this in case someone else needs it. When you just want: “Raspberry PI3 NodeJS GPIO Control” – this is how you get it done: npm install –save… Continue reading Raspberry PI3 NodeJS GPIO Control: rpi-gpio
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