Matt Manning was recently at the Raspberry Pi Foundation giving a presentation on the Pi Community to the assembled educators. While he was there he interviewed James Adams, the Foundation’s director of hardware, about the Compute Module. This is a great…
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Mount a USB thumb drive on a #RaspberryPi
Scott Kildall has written a brief Instructable with details of mounting USB pen drives, and other USB storage devices, onto a Raspberry Pi. Mounting, in case you didn’t know, simply means telling the operating system how to use a storage…
Maynard: a Wayland desktop shell for the #RaspberryPi
Marco Barisione is part of a team working on a desktop shell for the X-windows replacement Wayland. He’s posted up details of their recent work and included a rather nice video demo of how far they’ve got with it (see…
Program the ATtiny85 from the #RaspberryPi
Instructables member prb3333 has written an extensive tutorial (with code) on programming an ATtiny85 microcontroller chip from the Pi. You have to do some compilation (of avrdude) first and wire the chip up in a certain way on a breadboard.…
Review of ProtoLab breakout board for the #RaspberryPi from AlienSpec
The Average Man has got hold of one of these lovely prototyping boards from AlienSpec and has written a very detailed review of it’s capabilities here. You can buy one for £15 delivered from their eBay shop.
HDMIPi screens are a step closer for #RaspberryPi users
The slightly-delayed HDMIPi screen is a step closer today with the arrival in the UK of the first working driver board. Cyntech have been posting pictures on Twitter (see above) and Alex Eames from RasPi.TV is now waiting for his…
Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to…
Picademy Day One write-up – #RaspberryPi teacher CPD at Pi Towers!
Teacher Sway Grantham was one of the lucky ones who got a place on Picademy – a brand new 2-day course for teachers run by the folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Foundation has recently moved into a spacious…
Review of the MEKIT #RaspberryPi Plate
The Average Man has got hold of a MEKIT Pi Plate from The Little British Robot Company. It’s a metal board that you can mount your Pi to and that allows you to connect it up to LEGO or anything…
Making time lapse videos with the #RaspberryPi camera and a Windows machine
The Average Man has done another one of his camera tutorials. This time he’s covered time lapse photography and using a Windows machine to stitch them together into a video. Read more here.