Matt Hawkins has blogged about two ways to change the size of the font on your Pi. The first uses a piece of software called dpkg-reconfigure and the other involves manually editing a configuration file. If you’ve got a low-resolution…
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HDMIPi beta board review from #RaspberryPi Spy
Just doing a bit of a blog on a Saturday evening and spotted Matt Hawkins’ review of the HDMIPi beta board. Definitely worth a read if you’ve either reserved one or are thinking about it. Read it here
Mini Nerf gun created with the #RaspberryPi
Jordan Balagot has created a robot that shoots mini Nerf darts. She’s used a “Romo” robot for transport and the Raspberry Pi for control of the servo that fires the gun. Take a look at the video below or view…
Learn to play the piano with a #RaspberryPi
Shane Snipe, and his dad, have built a system to teach you how to play the piano and they’ve used a Raspberry Pi to do it. They’ve rigged up a series of servos which control some laser pointers which then…
Ciseco Pi-LITEr review
Darren Christie has done a quick review of the Pi-LITEr board from Ciseco. This little collection of LEDs, costing a massive £3, is great value and apart from a few reservations, Darren gives it the thumbs up. You can read…
Kano lays out it’s open-source credentials and releases first #RaspberryPi project
Kano, creators of the Kano kit which has had a bit of a rough road in the Pi community, has now stated what it plans to do in terms of open-sourcing it’s code. You can read their initial announcement here…
#RaspberryPi Foundation Education Fund launched
The Foundation has today announced a £1 million pot called the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education Fund. This will fund projects and initiatives for kids aged 5-18 in the 4 core STEM areas. Priority will be given for not-for-profit projects. You…
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
New @Raspberry_Pi website launched (not the April Fools one, the real one!)
After yesterday’s much-appreciated (and little maligned) retro-styled website skinning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has now launched it’s ‘real’ new site. The site has a beautiful all-new design and is now much more heavily focussed on the Education aspects of the…
How to use the MMA7455 accelerometer with the #RaspberryPi
Zach Igielman, a long-time CamJammer, has just started to do video tutorials. His first one is all about using an accelerometer with the Pi and he’s chosen to use the MMA7455 which is fairly easy and cheap to get hold…