justthatoneotherdude, building on work from auntie-matter, has created a lovely, wooden jukebox with a Raspberry Pi at the centre. There are 5 knobs controlling playlists and volume and the Pi itself is running the Volumio operating system. There are ‘runner’…
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Raspbian desktop now available for x86 – run PIXEL on your PC/Mac
The folks over at Raspberry Pi have just announced that PIXEL/Raspbian is now available for x86 machines. This means that you can now run the new desktop environment on a regular PC or Mac. You can download it here as a live-booting ISO…
Get started with Android Things on the Raspberry Pi 3
Harry Fairhead over at i-programmer.info has written a nice getting started guide for Android Things, the new Java-based platform for the Raspberry Pi 3. He covers getting the image installed on the Pi and the initial connection, before going on to…
Synchronised Raspberry Pi-driven Christmas light show brings some pizzazz to a radio station
Alec Connolly, who attends the University of Toledo majoring in electrical engineering, has recently been interning at a company called iHeartMedia. He was tasked by one of the directors with creating a Christmas light show that would sync with their radio…
Loop video files the easy way with a Raspberry Pi and MP4Museum
Sometimes, you just want to be able to loop some videos with no muss and no fuss. Enter German artist Julius Schmiedel who has developed a downloadable OS image, called MP4Museum, based on Raspbian Lite and OMXPlayer which reads MP4 files…
Raspbian updated to disable SSH by default on the Raspberry Pi
Simon Long has just announced an update to Raspbian in which SSH will be disabled by default. For most people, this relatively minor change won’t cause any problem – you can use your Pi just as you did before. However,…
First official 64-bit operating system released for the Raspberry Pi 3
Although the Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit processor, it is well-known among the higher-level techies that the currently released version of Raspbian is, in fact, a 32-bit version. That means it’s not using some of the higher-level functionality of…
PoisonTap is a Raspberry Pi Zero security threat worth taking note of
I wasn’t going to blog this as it’s a pretty horrid use of the Pi, but I wanted to highlight the security concern! PoisonTap is a Raspberry Pi Zero/Node.js hacking machine. According to the maker’s website, it: siphons cookies, exposes…
Western Digital expands their Raspberry Pi PiDrive hard drive range with the Foundation Edition
Western Digital has announced some new products in their PiDrive range. The PiDrive is a series of hard drives which can be powered and driven directly off the Pi’s USB ports. The Foundation Edition is designed to take the Operating System…
Dirty Cow Linux vulnerability affects the Raspberry Pi – here’s how to fix it
There is a security vulnerability affecting Linux at the moment called “Dirty Cow”. It affects the copy-on-write mechanism (hence the name) and can be very dangerous as it allows malicious hackers to take control of your computer or device, including…