Enterprise virtualisation solutions provider Xtravirt have developed a new Raspberry Pi SD card image download called Advantage vPi. Here’s what they say about it: Advantage vPi is a complete VMware vSphere management toolbox solution in-a-box designed to run on a…
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New Motor Controller Board Kit for the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley, the programmer behind rastrack.co.uk, co-editor of Pi Weekly and organiser of the Stevenage Raspberry Jam has moved into the hardware arena with his Motor Controller Board. The budget-priced board is designed to do one thing, and do it…
Quick guide to Nano text editor on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a brief guide to using the Nano text editor. This is an essential piece of software for those who work from the command line and is the staple for things like Git.…
Chart ambient vs outside temperature with a #RaspberryPi
Over at WhiskeyTangoHotel.com, they’ve written a tutorial that takes a Pi, a DS18B20 temperature sensor and a sen.se account to record and plot out temperature readings. Read how they did it and see the code
Stereoscopic viewer using a #RaspberryPi and a retro device
Vancouver-based Alec Smecher has taken a vintage View-Master toy and crammed in a Raspberry Pi, the innards of a CD-ROM drive and 2 OLED displays to create a portable stereoscopic video player. It’s a truly astounding mod and it’s well…
3D scanner made up of 40 #RaspberryPi boards and cameras
Richard has developed a 3D scanner using the Pi and the camera module… actually, 39 of them! He’s created an Instructable and also set-up a website specifically for the project. He recently took it to the Maker Faire in Groningen, Netherlands…
Dual-Protocol Routing with #RaspberryPi
This is one for the network engineers amongst you. I can’t make heads-or-tails of it, and I haven’t read it in-depth, but it seems that you can make a router out of a Raspberry Pi by using the Routing Advertisement…
#RaspberryPi – enabled piano stairs are a hit at HackPrinceton 2013
Bonnie Eisenman and her team used light sensors and torches to create a set of musical stairs at Princeton. The sensors are read using an Arduino and the Pi is used to produce the sounds. Read more and see more…
Cross-Africa #RaspberryPi journey reaches Cairo
Fred and Ernest Lotter have committed themselves to driving across Europe and Africa to reach their home country of South Africa. Along the way they are teaching two-day workshops centred around the Raspberry Pi, and in particular creating an Embedded…
Review of the Fuze #RaspberryPi kit
Tony Smith has reviewed the all-in-one Raspberry Pi kit The Fuze. This is the one that comes with an embedded keyboard, GPIO breakout and breadboard. It was not well-received by Linux User and Developer when they recently looked over it…