Dexter Industries has just announced the launch of the new version of their DexterOS operating system. They use a Blockly-style programming language called Bloxter for the visual programming side and you can now make the move to Python more easily because they…
Last year, Mozilla announced Project Things and now they’ve announced the release of an OS image for the Raspberry Pi which implements that idea. With the concept of bringing all your home IoT devices under one roof, and providing a web interface…
James was trying to allocate a static IP address to his Pi. He did what he’d always done and allocated the static address to eth0 but was then bewildered as to why it wasn’t working. He discovered that the naming…
The folks over at Raspberry Pi have announced the immediate release of a new version of Raspbian, based on the Debian Stretch OS. There are various small software changes as well as the big update to the underlying operating system.…
Like many people, I have a Chromebook. I use this machine whenever I can’t be bothered to unload my laptop, and for when I’m down in The Den (my large maker shed at the bottom of the garden, like fairies,…
Mozilla have just announced the launch of the Things Gateway. Aimed at providing a common interface for various non-web-enabled wireless devices to get them onto the internet, the Things Gateway is fully open-source and is an implementation of a “Web…
Andrew Oakley from Cotswold Raspberry Jam wanted to try out the x86 version of Raspbian. However, he wanted to run it inside VirtualBox on his Windows 10 PC to save having to have another machine with just Raspbian running on it.…
I follow PJ Evans on Twitter and he posted up a picture of his latest project: an Atari 2600 console made out of a Raspberry Pi Zero embedded in an Atari game cartridge. He has since blog-posted an account of the…
Simon Long has just posted on the Raspberry Pi website about an update to Raspbian that has just been released. The following changes have been implemented: Scratch 2.0 (offline version) pre-installed, including ability to do physical computing! Thonny IDE for Python…
There are many reasons why you might want to try out your ‘hacking’ or penetration-testing skills. These range from a simple proof-of-concept as to why systems should be locked down to more aggressive hacking to prove the vulnerability of parts…
