Albert Hickey wondered if Chromium (being the new default browser for Raspbian) would support Flash. Most specifically, he wondered if Scratch 2.0 through the browser would work. To start with, it wouldn’t. However, following an update/upgrade, it suddenly did! Here’s…
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An introduction to PiBakery, the set-up tool for Raspberry Pi
Kicker22004 has done a great introductory video to PiBakery, the pre-boot configuration tool for Raspbian written by David Ferguson. You can take a look at the video below and take a look at PiBakery yourself here.
Tweaking the Raspberry Pi desktop PIXEL environment
Alex Eames has been playing about with PIXEL, the new desktop environment for the Raspberry Pi. He’s documented how to change/remove the splash screen, how to disable menu tooltips, how to change the background graphic and how to find the desktop…
Flashing the new Raspbian image onto a Raspberry Pi’s SD card
The new Raspbian image is over 4GB. This introduces some challenges when trying to write it to an SD card. In particular, unzipping it on Windows and Mac using their built-in tools will fail because they’re a bit naff. Alex…
Raspberry Pi announces the introduction of Pixel – a new look for the Raspbian desktop environment
Simon Long has blogged over on raspberrypi.org about an upgrade to the desktop environment of Raspbian, the standard distro for the Raspberry Pi. There are loads of tweaks and lots of polish including, but not limited to, theme background photographs, new…
Android Nougat unofficially ported to the Raspberry Pi 3
Peter Yoon has ported Android 7.0 (Nougat) to the Raspberry Pi 3. Apparently, it’s not stable, it’s not official and it’s certainly not what you’d call a breakthrough in usability, but it is now available if you fancy a play. You…
Google working on new real-time operating system that will run on the Raspberry Pi
Google is currently working on a new operating system called Fuchsia. According to reports, the operating system will be based on Magenta which is itself based on LittleKernel, a real-time operating system. Travis Geiselbrecht from Google has explicitly named the Raspberry…
Boot your Raspberry Pi through an Ethernet cable
Gordon Hollingworth has just published his second blog post on the Pi’s new booting modes. This one is all about booting over Ethernet with no SD card on the client Pi. The new functionality is documented here and there’s a…
Boot your Raspberry Pi from a USB drive (beta)
Gordon Hollingworth has just announced, over on the Raspberry Pi blog, that the Raspberry Pi 3 can be booted from USB mass storage devices. Information on how to do it, and which devices have been found (so far) to be…
New podcast launched featuring Raspberry Pi-flavoured interviews from the North of England
Following yesterday’s news that The Pi Podcast has come to an end, I’ve been keeping an eye out for a replacement. Well, the first one has appeared! Young Josh has just started a series of podcasts based on his visits…