Alan Page has worked out how to read a floppy disk from his Pi. Too complicated to explain here, so I’ll let you read his blog post.
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Wolfson Pi Audio Card for #RaspberryPi
Doug McFarlan at Wolfson has been leading a team to develop an audio card for the Pi in conjunction with Element 14/Farnell. The card, which plugs into the GPIO, features the following: 3.5 mm jack (4-pole) for a headset/boom mic…
RasPi.TV covers HDMIPi – the 9 inch portable Hi-Definition HDMI screen for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames, one of the minds behind the HDMIPi screen has blogged about the project on his own site. Not much more information than on the Kickstarter campaign page but it’s always great to hear from Alex and he even goes…
David Whale’s #RaspberryPi Internet of Things demo board
David Whale (Twitter’s @whaleygeek) has written a blog post about his “Internet of Things Demonstrator”. This is a piece of wood with two Raspberry Pis mounted on it, plus a switch for one Pi and an LED for the other.…
Geek Gurl shares experience of running #RaspberryPi workshops for youngsters
Carrie Anne Philbin has written a blog post her on experience running Pi workshops in libraries. Great story. Read it here
Learn Scratch in 10 and a half minutes – great for kids on the #RaspberryPi
Obviously, you can use Scratch on many different platforms, including the Pi, but never before have I seen a video in which Scratch is taught in about 10 minutes! Roehampton University’s Miles Berry has created a video tutorial which does…
Affordable HDMI high definition screen for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV and Dave Mellor of Cyntech have teamed up to create a new Kickstarter for a cheap HDMI-capable screen, primarily for the Raspberry Pi. This is one of the best campaigns for Pi hardware I’ve seen –…
New product found: @4tronix_uk PiRoCon robot controller for #RaspberryPi
eBay vendor 4tronix, (@4tronix_uk) who have proved themselves to be very good at customer service (just ask @gadgetoid or myself!) and super-fast on delivery have just released the PiRoCon – a GPIO robot controller plugin board. It has the following features:…
#RaspberryPi Pi NoIR camera filming in the dark
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has started what is probably a series of experiments with the Pi NoIR. He’s using an IP cam to provide an IR light source for the camera and has created a video that shows you the…
Simple C++ API for the #RasperryPi camera module
As the title says, Chris Cummings has developed a C++ API for the camera module. Read more and get it over on his blog