On Saturday, Tim and I hosted a Raspberry Jam Doughnut in Potton – Potton Pi & Pints – at our local, The Rising Sun. It was Tim’s idea and it turned out to be very successful. We had between 30-40…
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Cambridge Raspberry Jam – booking now open
Tickets for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam (CamJam) on 10th May are now available. You can get your tickets by visiting this page on the CamJam website. We’re mixing it up for this Jam and trying something a bit different. In…
Introductory course to the #RaspberryPi in South Wales – several dates
The University of South Wales is running a FULLY FUNDED introductory course to Raspberry Pi on the following dates: Tuesday 24th June 2014 (full day) Tuesday 1st July 2014 (full day) Friday 4th July 2014 (full day) @ Crownford House Merthyr Tydfil…
RasPiO Breakout Pro – a #RaspberryPi add-on board that protects your Pi
Alex Eames has done a great video in which he explains how the new RasPiO Breakout Pro protects the Pi. It has resistors for protecting the Pi from excessive amp draw and diodes to protect the Pi should you connect…
Building a #RaspberryPi VPN server
Lauren Orsini has been doing Pi stuff again and has written a comprehensive tutorial to setting up a Pi as a VPN server using OpenVPN. Full instructions on how to do it are available over at readwrite.com.
New #RaspberryPi powered Kickstarter aims to make choosing music a social experience
The Sweden-based Blicko team have just launched a Kickstarter to support their hardware/software project which is a jukebox-style music playing system. Here’s what they say on their page: Blicko began when we noticed a problem in the way music is…
New distribution for the #RaspberryPi – RuneAudio
RuneAudio is a free and open source software with a specific objective: to transform an embedded platform (a cheap, silent and low-consumption mini-PC) into an Hi-Fi digital music player. It offers a lot of features and aims to be easy…
Setting up your #RaspberryPi with Johnny Ball!
Childhood legend to the over-30s Johnny Ball has kindly donated his time to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to voice their new video about setting up the Raspberry Pi. It tells you everything you need to know about what goes where…
Interview with Eben Upton about the #RaspberryPi and how it’s changing the world
Over at ReadWrite.com, Lauren Orsini has done a really nice interview with Eben about the development of the Raspberry Pi, the inspiration behind it and some of the projects it has inspired. A lot of the stuff you’ve probably read…
How to take basic photos and video with your #RaspberryPi camera module
The Average Man continues his series on the camera module with a tutorial on using the raspistill and raspivid commands to take stills and video. Read how to do it here