Both Steve Hickson and Tim Schwartz have worked on SD card images to automatically play videos on a loop using omxplayer. Take a look at Steve’s blog post and also Tim’s blog post.
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Review of The Pi Supply for #RaspberryPi
Matt from RaspberryPiIVBeginners has reviewed the ‘intelligent’ power supply for the Pi called “The Pi Supply” (imaginative name, I know). Interesting piece of kit that gives you push-buttons to turn the Pi on and off in a sensible manner.
#RaspberryPi MotorPiTX build and testing from RasPi.TV
Photo from RasPi.TV Alex was busy on Saturday and soldered up his MotorPiTX board. This board is a base for building robots and includes two motor controllers and 2 servo controllers along with various inputs and outputs. I’ve got one…
Raspberry Jamboree 2014 tickets go on sale for #RaspberryPi fans
Early-bird registration is now open for the 2014 Raspberry Jamboree, being held in Manchester from 27th February to 1st March. Read about the event and register here. It’s half price @ £10 until 30th November.
Pi-Lite ‘Hello World’ example for #RaspberryPi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has written some Python code to generate a Hello World example on Ciseco’s Pi-Lite. Read how he did it here
WordPress for #RaspberryPi using Nginx and MySQL
I’m just setting up a new blog for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. 🙂 I’ve managed to install WordPress on a rev 1 256mb Raspberry Pi using Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the back end. This was accomplished…
New Raspbian release includes Java and NOOBS v1.3 #raspberrypi
A much-improved and much-enlarged version of Raspbian is now the standard install for download from the Foundation’s site. The new release contains: Sonic Pi Improvements to Scratch PyPy 2.1 Pi-Face libraries The Oracle Java Development Kit This last item adds…
#RaspberryPi XBMC solutions compared
Over at Lifehacker, Thorin Klosowski has done a comparison of the three XBMC distros (Raspbmc, OpenELEC, XBian). It’s pretty comprehensive and well worth a read if you’re trying to decide between them. Read it here
New wooden cases for your #RaspberryPi at @ThePiHut
Myself and Tim were given a wooden Pi case at the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam. I’m pleased to say that they are now available on the Pi Hut website. These are really beautiful – they’re made from Maplewood and beat…
School racing car project gets performance monitoring from a #RaspberryPi
St Faith’s school in Cambridge has had help from ARM to build it’s battery-powered racing car, the Green Goblin. To keep track of the performance of the car, they use a Raspberry Pi! Read a little more at Cambridge News