Creating Battery Level Indicator in Qt/QML using Icon Font

The purpose of this post is to create a battery charge level indicator in Qt/QML. For the buttery icon we’ll use Font Awesome, which is a free icon font, so that we don’t need to design the icon from scratch. Here is the list of contents of this post. Contents – Steps 1. Download icon font… Continue reading “Creating Battery Level Indicator in Qt/QML using Icon Font”

Creating Bluetooth Beacon with Raspberry Pi by using Bluetooth Developer Studio

This post shows how to make a Raspberry Pi a Bluetooth Beacon by using Bluetooth Developer Studio and its Beacon plugin. Bluetooth Developer Studio is a free application development tool from Bluetooth SIG and with Beacon plugin, it generates a script file which makes a Raspberry Pi a Bluetooth beacon. The steps below basically follow a… Continue reading “Creating Bluetooth Beacon with Raspberry Pi by using Bluetooth Developer Studio”

Writing Raspbian OS Image to SD Card on Linux

This is how to write Raspbian OS image to SD card by using Linux command line. Since the steps below use “dd” command which may cause damage to your system if used wrongly, please be careful about the usage.   Contents – Assumptions – Steps 1. Download Raspbian OS Image 2. Find device name of… Continue reading “Writing Raspbian OS Image to SD Card on Linux”

Enabling Hands-Free Profile on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Stretch) by using PulseAudio

The purpose of this post is to enable Bluetooth Handsfree Profile (HFP) with PulseAudio on Raspbian Stretch so that Raspberry Pi can act like as a handsfree speaker phone or a handsfree car kit. This is an updated version of this post. When I wrote the previous post, I was using Raspbian Jessie and some… Continue reading “Enabling Hands-Free Profile on Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Stretch) by using PulseAudio”