The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones went to the Sony Pencoed Factory to see them making the Pi and brought back a fantastic video showing the parts of the process. The coolest bit has to be where all the components are placed…
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Is the #RaspberryPi an innovation in computer training, or just another toy?
This is a fascinating post from David Glance over at theconversation.com. As usual, the educational appeal of the Pi is called into question but the fascinating comments at the bottom of the page make reading it very worthwhile! Read it…
Create an iBeacon from a #RaspberryPi
James Nebeker and David G. Young over at Radius Networks have developed a way to use a Pi and a Bluetooth LE dongle to create a bluetooth beacon similar to Apple’s iBeacon. If you don’t know what an iBeacon is (I didn’t!)…
What Everyone Needs: a #RaspberryPi internet-controlled Whoopee Cushion
Over on Element 14’s Pi community, a user called “oneleggedredcow” has written scripts and a how-to-do-it tutorial for creating an internet-controlled fart cushion. Read how to do this ridiculous thing 🙂
Python library for the #RaspberryPi camera module in the works
Dave Hughes has been working on a Python package that will enable you to natively communicate with the camera module. I’ve not tried this out, and it seems to be at a very early stage, but this is great news…
Backup, Format & Clone your SD card
Oscar Liang has posted a short tutorial on the options for backing up, formatting and copying your SD card. Read it here
Garage door opening mechanism with a #RaspberryPi
LA-based Brent Nycum has hacked his garage remote-control opener by using a Pi, a relay board and a wifi dongle. He’s then used node.js on the server side to respond to requests. Read more here
Stream Video from the #RaspberryPi camera to a web browsers
Miguel Grinberg has written a couple of tutorials that use mjpg-streamer to stream images from the camera module. Apparently this works across all browsers including iOS and Android. Here is the initial post and here is a more detailed post on…
Great deals on #RaspberryPi Model A and Camera Module
As announced on the Foundation blog, there are some terrific Pi deals out at the moment. Their post lists the prices in dollars (though confusingly doesn’t include links for US/Overseas customers), but here are the details if you’re in the UK.…
Light up your room with a PiGlow and a #RaspberryPi
Phil Howard (Gadgetoid) has written some code that presents a colour wheel on any device to control a Pi fitted with a PiGlow. He’s housed the whole thing in an IKEA lamp hood. His code is available on his blog…