The Java Source has published a couple of videos. The first is all about getting JDK 8 up-and-running on the Pi. The second moves onto using Pi4J and controlling the GPIO
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Star Trek LCARS on a #RaspberryPi
YouTube channel owner boltszmann138 has created a Trekker’s dream come true – an LCARS interface running a Raspberry Pi. There’s lots of technical detail on his YouTube video page and he hopes to eventually publish his code open source-style so…
Cheap ultrasonic distance sensor for the #RaspberryPi available from @Phenoptix
The fine folks over at Phenoptix have just started selling the SR-04 ultrasonic distance sensor for £1.99. It comes with a couple of resistors to protect your Pi. All they need now is some instructions on using it with your…
Electronic patient record system goes into developing countries with the #RaspberryPi
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have developed an open source electronic patient record system and are now deploying it across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries. It is being adapted to run on the low-cost Pi. The first installation…
Recycled monitors and #RaspberryPi make up a video wall
Students at the Canberra Institute of Technology have taken a bunch of old DVI monitors and, together with a Pi for each monitor, have created a video wall. This is a great way of recycling old monitors! It doesn’t look…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
Control your #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote
Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, has done another tutorial video. This time he tackles the complexities (or simplicities) of getting a Wiimote running in conjunction with your Pi. It’s very simple and he’s done some example code so…
Network boot a classroom full of #RaspberryPi with LTSP
Andrew Mulholland has developed a series of scripts called RaspberryPi-LTSP that allow you to boot the Raspberry Pi over a network. You start off by installing a minimal distro on the Pi’s SD card and then it goes and ‘gets’…
Review: UUGear 7-port USB hub for the #RaspberryPi
I was contacted by Shawn from UUGear, based in the Czech Republic, about their new 7-port hub and agreed to review it. So, here goes! The UUGear Hub features 7 ports on a circuit board that is the same size…
Seven Segments of Pi – All our monitors are VGA! (Part 4)
Last week I described how in June 2012 pupils had modified some Python Software on the Raspberry Pi to make the attached Seven Segment Display count to … …and I realised I had something which answered the pupil’s question… “Yes!…