My apologies for being a little quiet of late – myself and Tim Richardson (@geeky_tim) have been finalising arrangements for the Raspberry Jam that is happening this Saturday!!! and it’s been taking up all the time I would use to blog.…
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Setting up Epson Scanning on the #RaspberryPi
John Carmack wanted to off-load document scanning from his home PC and chose a Pi to do the job. It’s a little slow and there is a limit to the amount of scanning you can do (because of the Pi’s…
Drive a scrolling LED badge from a #RaspberryPi
Dave Akerman (of high-altitude ballooning/Babbage Bear fame) has taken apart a £13 LED badge, re-soldered some of the connections and written some nifty script in C to create a status display for his ballooning flights. Read more here
ScratchGPIO gets support for the Pibrella #RaspberryPi add-on board
Simon Walters (@cymplecy) has been beavering away at his ScratchGPIO software. This software brings GPIO support to Scratch so that you can use LEDs and, now, expansion boards from the popular visual programming environment. The latest board to receive support…
Timelapse photography with the #RaspberryPi, Python and avconv
Trevor Appleton has done a very good, comprehensive tutorial on using a combination of Python and avconv to take photos with the camera module and then string them together as a video. Read the tutorial here
Use your browser to control Sid the #RaspberryPi – powered robot arm
Si digital have used a Pi, Node.js, Nginx and the camera module to create a controllable robot arm. You use controls on your web browser to control the arm and build up points. I was unable to get it working…
Create elegant graphics with C++ and openFrameworks on the #RaspberryPi
Andreas Muller and Jason Van Cleave over at CreativeApplications.net have written a tutorial on using openFrameworks on the Pi. openFrameworks is an open source C++ toolkit for ‘creative coding’. It provides an interface to graphics, audio, video, networking and access…
The Definitive #RaspberryPi Pinout
PighiXXX, who created the brilliant ABC (Arduino Basic Connections) cards have now created a comprehensive guide to the GPIO (and other pins) of the Pi. Take a proper look here
Build a #RaspberryPi battery backup
I recently received a sample of the UPiS uninterruptible power supply. I’m going to review that in a few days time. However, if you’d like to do something similar yourself, George over at Repairhub has written a tutorial to help…
Create shapes in #RaspberryPi edition of Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon continues his series on Minecraft by using his MinecraftDrawing object to create 3D geometric shapes in the virtual world. Read more here