The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new version of Raspbian is now available, as well as a new version of NOOBS containing that new release. The following features are included in the update: New firmware with various fixes and improvements…
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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a security camera
The Average Man has used a distro image called MotionPie and a Nwazet Pi/camera case to create a security camera set-up for his father. It’s a rather neat solution to a common security problem. Read how he did it here.
Handheld NES and Gameboy with Raspberry Pi
Nicholas Moore has done a conversion of a Gameboy shell he purchased from Kitsch-Bent by adding a Raspberry Pi and some other components, together with a handy retro gaming image from Adafruit. You can read how he did it here or watch…
New distro brings BBC Basic to the forefront on a #RaspberryPi
Risc OS Open have released a new distro image for the Raspberry Pi that boots you straight into BBC Basic. It’s probably only worth it if you’re after a full retro experience, but it’s nice to know that you can…
Set up a jukebox on your #RaspberryPi
AudiculaPi is a Linux distro for the Pi that gives you an MPD Jukebox with a web-based front-end. Here are the features of the system: Minimalistic system, installed and running on a just 100MB sized SD card partition Based on…
Boot the #RaspberryPi from a 16MB SD card and a pen drive
Mike Redrobe has written a very brief tutorial on using a very small SD card as a boot device with a USB pen drive containing the main operating system. He’s using a 2GB pen drive, but of course you’ll need…
Nice portable handheld retro emulator with a #RaspberryPi
3Derp has used his 3D printer to create a case for his Raspberry Pi and then added a battery pack, TFT monitor and a Teensy 2.0 to create a beautiful handheld which runs the RetroPie distro. Read more/see more pics…
New distribution for the #RaspberryPi – RuneAudio
RuneAudio is a free and open source software with a specific objective: to transform an embedded platform (a cheap, silent and low-consumption mini-PC) into an Hi-Fi digital music player. It offers a lot of features and aims to be easy…
Kano lays out it’s open-source credentials and releases first #RaspberryPi project
Kano, creators of the Kano kit which has had a bit of a rough road in the Pi community, has now stated what it plans to do in terms of open-sourcing it’s code. You can read their initial announcement here…
Network boot a classroom full of #RaspberryPi with LTSP
Andrew Mulholland has developed a series of scripts called RaspberryPi-LTSP that allow you to boot the Raspberry Pi over a network. You start off by installing a minimal distro on the Pi’s SD card and then it goes and ‘gets’…