Over on the Element14 community, Sumit Rai has been posting up a step-by-step guide to building a karaoke machine. He’s even managed to work out how to use the Wolfson Pi audio board to do it, although details on that…
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IM status indicator nameplates with the #RaspberryPi
This is a nice project. Reagan Ward wanted to give people an idea of whether he and his colleagues were in the office or not. He wired up a Pi with some perfboard and some RGB LEDs, did some nifty…
Binding hotkeys on a #RaspberryPi
Say you wanted to have a function key run a particular program in X windows. Well, Rolf van Gelder has written a short tutorial on how to do it. Read how here.
CamJam – the Big Write Up
Liz Upton, from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, very kindly asked myself and Tim Richardson (as the organisers) to write about last Saturday’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam for the Foundation’s blog. Here’s a link to the write-up – it’s very, very long,…
BlueJ – a Java IDE on the #RaspberryPi
BlueJ is a free Java Development Environment designed for beginners and the developers have now got it running on a Pi. They’ve stripped back some of the visual features and bells and whistles so that it (in their words) “runs…
LMC – The Little Man Computer on the #RaspberryPi
Gordon Henderson (@drogon) has been busy creating an instructional model of a computer, known as LMC, using his Return to BASIC on the Pi. I can’t begin to understand the technicalities of it at the moment, but here’s what he…
#RaspberryPi CPD in North Wales
Picademy graduate, and therefore a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, Allen Heard is organising 3 separate days of CPD (known as CPiD) in Conwy, North Wales. The dates are 16th, 18th and 20th June and there are limited spaces available. More…
Review of 7 Seg for #RaspberryPi
Carl Monk backed Tom Garry’s IndieGoGo campaign and bagged himself a 7 Seg for Raspberry Pi kit. He soldered it together and tried it out and has now given his frank opinion in this review. Read it here.
Watch Live Video of Earth on your #RaspberryPi
Miguel Grinberg has worked out how to play the live stream being broadcast from the International Space Station on the Raspberry Pi. It involves installing some software and writing a short script and is well worth the effort if you’d…
Bounty offered for a blue #RaspberryPi
Jamie at The Pi Hut is on the hunt for a blue Raspberry Pi! He is offering the following bounty: £50 to the seller £50 donation to the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the sellers name Replacement Raspberry Pi Model B (UK Made)…