Over on Slice of Raspberry Pi, they’ve been developing a sweep generator, also known as a wobbulator. Here’s what they say about it (it’s a bit beyond me!) A wobbulator (or sweep generator) is a piece of test equipment…
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The world’s biggest #RaspberryPi display
David Whale (@whaleygeek) was asked to help Greenpower display race timings for their event. I’ll let him tell you all about the project on his blog. It’s BIG Read here
How do you make a #RaspberryPi?
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones went to the Sony Pencoed Factory to see them making the Pi and brought back a fantastic video showing the parts of the process. The coolest bit has to be where all the components are placed…
More programming examples for the Pi Lite and #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, aka Raspberry Pi Spy, has been playing with the Pi-Lite and has written a tutorial on displaying custom sprites and animating them. All his code is available online including a little sprite editor that gives you the string…
#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller
Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action. Here’s what he says about it: We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program.…
Community mashup time! #RaspberryPi Minecraft, Ordnance Survey and Rastrack come together
Following a suggestion from and Twitter conversation with David Whale (@whaleygeek), Martin O’Hanlon (Minecraft Pi guru) has mashed together some recently released Ordnance Survey data, the map-of-Pis data from Rastrack and some Minecraft know-how. He’s created a map of the…
Guide to soldering – useful for #RaspberryPi owners who tinker!
Meltwater has written an excellent set of tips about soldering. Read the guide here
Open source tablet based on a #RaspberryPi
Richard Bair has written an article on the OpenJDK wiki about a project he has developed in which a Raspberry Pi and several other components go together to create the DukePad – an open source tablet. Duke it out by…
Sensing a laser signal between the #RaspberryPi & #Arduino
Christian Perone has blogged about his experiments using a laser light emitted by an Arduino and a detection circuit using a light dependent resistor (LDR) with a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi & Arduino: a laser pointer communication and a LDR…
Linux Cheat Sheets
Everyday Linux User has blogged a load of cheat sheets for using Linux. Please take a look at these if you use the command line as these are very good indeed. Take a look here