Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV, has written an in-depth review of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi. He’s also seen how it works in a practical way with his son. It’s a very revealing look at how well…
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Installing Oracle JDK 8 on the #RaspberryPi
Rahul Kar has written a very short tutorial on installing the version 8 Java Development Kit onto the Pi. Read it here
Pi Crust – GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi – review
Tony Smith has written an in-depth review about the Pi Crust add-on board and the advantages and disadvantages of it, particularly with respect to fitting it inside a case. It’s not a particularly positive review, but it’s well-balanced. Read it…
Pi Co-op – #RaspberryPi / #Arduino add-on board review & a lie detector
The Pi Co-op is an expansion board that plugs straight onto the GPIO header and gives you immediate access to an Atmega328p microcontroller chip. Essentially, it gives you an onboard Arduino! It’s also pre-soldered which means you don’t need to…
RasPi.TV launches new product range for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV, has today launched three products for the Raspberry Pi market under the RasPiO label. They are: A port labels board (similar to other ones but nicely done) – it slips over the top of your…
Automated home brewing with the #RaspberryPi
Ted Hale has previously experimented with temperature thermistor sensing and controlled a refrigerator using a Pi. He’s now moved on to using the Pi to control the heating processes involved with brewing beer. Read all about it here
Vocal intruder warning system now takes pictures with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox previously posted about his motion-detecting, noise-making intruder warning system. He’s now added a camera module to the project and it takes a picture of the intruder. He’s used the picamera Python library to do this and it’s a…
What is sudo? – Nice video for #RaspberryPi Linux people
Matt Manning has, on his Raspberry Pi IV Beginners YouTube channel, created a video that explains the ‘sudo’ command and why you might use it. Watch the video below
Server monitoring with the #RaspberryPi
19-year old Brandon has written a Java application that runs on a Raspberry Pi and tweets when his servers are down. Read more about how he did it here
Copy files to/from your #RaspberryPi remotely
Trevor Appleton has done a nice tutorial on using Filezilla to transfer files to/from your Raspberry Pi by using the SFTP protocol. Beats the hell out of using USB sticks and swapping files that way! Also beats setting up an…