Lance Howarth, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, recently gave a talk at TEDx Oxbridge talking about everything Pi-related. It’s great to see some video of Lance (at last)! Watch it below.
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OpenEuphoria on the #RaspberryPi
USA-based Russell Davies needed to learn a computer language a while ago, having not programmed for years. He settled on Euphoria. This has since been open-sourced as OpenEuphoria and Russell has now brought it to the Raspberry Pi. You can download the…
Checking tickets at concert venues with a #RaspberryPi
“willseph” was fed up with the amount of space, and the relative cost, of using netbooks to check tickets at his company’s events. So, he decided to create the PiGates – a Raspberry Pi using a barcode scanner that will…
Lots of #RaspberryPi tutorials and resources from David Briddock
David Briddock has been writing Pi-related tutorials for some time now and he’s now decided to collect them all together on an index page. Most of them are about programming in Java and Python and you can see the full…
Make a candle with the #RaspberryPi
Everyone knows that the equivalent of Hello World with the GPIO is to make an LED blink. Well, in this tutorial from Linux User magazine, Russell Barnes shows how to do it with some flair by using the PWM pin of…
The Nintendo Keytar – a #RaspberryPi 8-bit synthesiser
Theremin Hero took the following components: NES Guitar Hero Controller Famicom Controller NES controller Toy Keyboard 3 Mini Arduinos Raspberry Pi MaxM LEDs Midi IN/OUT connections MidiNES / Chip Maestro and made a brand new musical instrument out of it.…
Simple GPIO board for teaching soldering and using your #RaspberryPi
Paul Brown has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his MyPiFi LED board for the Pi. It’s a very simple board that requires self-assembly (including soldering) of the through-hole components. It looks very simple to put together…
Two new add-on boards for the #RaspberryPi
LinuxGizmos.com has done a nice feature on two new add-on boards for the Pi. The first is Mikronauts’ RoboPi robot controller board and the second is the Emlid Navio which is used for auto-piloting drones. Read their coverage here.
Install and use Node.js on the #RaspberryPi
Frank Carver has done a short tutorial on installing Node.js, which is effectively a Javascript server, on the Pi. It’s all the rage nowadays and it’s worth having a go if you’re at all Javascript-orientated. Read all about it here
MagPi issue 24 is out now for #RaspberryPi owners
The 24th issue of The MagPi, the enthusiast-run and edited magazine for the Pi, is out now. It contains a big feature on the Picademy and you can see the rest of the contents in the picture above. http://www.themagpi.com/issue/issue-24/.