Nice little slice-of-life Q&A with Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton about he does his work. I’m The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton And This Is How I Work | Lifehacker Australia.
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BitTech competition – make your own #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi case
Make a Raspberry Pi case for less than £10 and win a Raspberry Pi. That’s the deal over at BitTech. Full rules (and there are some more rules) are available on their site. So get your spare bits and pieces out,…
#RaspberryPi vs Intel NUC @ IT Pro
An interesting comparison of the potential of the Raspberry Pi vs a small form-factor Intel box using an Intel Core i3 chip. You might be surprised at who comes out on top! The price difference was particularly shocking. £25 vs…
A Beginner’s Guide to DIYing with the #RaspberryPi [reblog]
“It’s Raspberry Pi week at Lifehacker, and for the next five days we’ll be showing you some cool DIY projects you can put together with this little miracle of a device. If you haven’t bought one yet, check out the…
I2C and SPI explained – #RaspberryPi owners should know about them!
Romilly Cocking over at Quick2Wire has done an excellent explanation of the two most important protocols used on the Pi. I2C and SPI | Quick2Wire.
#RaspberryPi shows prices of other boards are going in the wrong direction
A comprehensive, and valid, criticism of the recent new ARM boards on the market, or more accurately their price point. With the bar set so high (low) by the $35 Raspberry Pi, can others follow their example and produce a…
#RaspberryPi powers FireHero 3 – rocking out to fire display
Rock guitar + pyromania = Awesomeness FireHero 3.
#RaspberryPi and #Arduino controlled weather station
Read the full article on ‘Make’ MAKE | RasPi and Arduino-Controlled Weather Station.
Setting up Prosody chatroom on the #RaspberryPi
Prosody is a piece of software to run chatrooms. Here’s how someone has set it up for use in their house. Setting up Prosody on the Raspberry Pi for house/apartment/secret club house-wide chatroom « Executing Gummiworms.
Auto-reboot a hung #RaspberryPi using the on-board watchdog timer [reblog]
A watchdog timer is a special kind of timer commonly found on embedded systems that is used to detect when the running software is hung up on some task. The watchdog timer is basically a countdown timer that counts from…