Sandy Macdonald has written a comprehensive review of his recently-arrived Raspberry Pi-powered media player, the Slice. The Slice was created by Five Ninjas and inside has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module which runs OpenElec and Kodi. You can read the…
Category: Compute Module
Dual Raspberry Pi camera streaming to an Oculus Rift with the Compute Module
Torkel Danielsson has paired the Compute Module using two cameras with a PC and, with a friend, has developed a way of streaming the stereo images to an Oculus Rift 2. Not much detail on how, but it’s very cool…
Review of the Slice Raspberry Pi media player
Here’s some great news for all your Slice backers. Smittytone has now got his and has reviewed it over on his blog. The review is highly positive and there’s really only one caveat: that you could download the software, install…
Slice media player powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module starts shipping
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were…
Stereo depth perception with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO Board CAD files released
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in: The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence…
First industrial application board with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
In what I think is a first for the Compute Module, French company CALAO Systems has just announced the launch of the PInBALL board – a platform for industrial Raspberry Pi users. It has the following specs: SoC / Memory / Storage …
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s James Adams
Matt Richardson from Make talked to James Adams (the Foundation’s Director of Hardware) at MakerCon in New York recently about the Compute Module, HATs, the B+ and how the Slice is going. The video of the interview is below.
Slice – a media player powered by Raspberry Pi
A team comprised of Raspberry Pi Foundation insiders, directors of Pimoroni and a music producer have banded together under the title of FiveNinjas to launch a Kickstarter for a new media player called ‘Slice’. The aluminium-cased player is based on…
First #RaspberryPi Compute Module motherboard
Geekroo Technologies have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the first Compute Module motherboard. The CoMo Booster is a 4-layer PCB with the following features: Built-in 150Mbps WiFi Built-in RTC (Real Time Clock) Programmable Power Management Unit(PMU), can…