We’ll be live streaming the Cambridge Raspberry Jam today! This is a bit of an experiment and may not work, so please bear with us! Here’s the link to the stream: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/ If you’re viewing on a mobile device, use…
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Ardent Mobile Cloud Platform uses the #RaspberryPi
Beth at scanlime has blogged about a pretty insane project that uses a Raspberry Pi at it’s core. They’ve basically taken a forklift and built a ‘cloud’ on the end of the lifter with loads of lights inside and used…
Use the ultimate GPS breakout board with the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has blogged a great tutorial that shows you how to get set-up with the ultimate GPS breakout board from Adafruit. The board is available from many of the shops listed in the column on the right. Read the…
Be a #RaspberryPi NOOBS v1.3 beta tester!
Just posting this before leaving work for the day. The Foundation are asking for beta testers for the newest version of NOOBS. Please head on over to their site to read more and become a beta tester yourself. This looks really…
#RaspberryPi web browser options
Christian Cawley at makeuseof.com has done a round-up of the different internet browsers you could use on your Pi. He covers Midori, NetSurf, Lynx, Chromium and Luakit. He also goes through a bit of optimisation with Midori to get the…
Sensing a laser signal between the #RaspberryPi & #Arduino
Christian Perone has blogged about his experiments using a laser light emitted by an Arduino and a detection circuit using a light dependent resistor (LDR) with a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi & Arduino: a laser pointer communication and a LDR…
Code Club on the #RaspberryPi
Penguin Tutor has set-up a Code Club at a primary school and is using Raspberry Pis to help teach them programming. This is a fantastic, realistic write-up of the benefits and pitfalls of using Pis in schools. Read it here
Back up your #RaspberryPi to your Google drive
Just a quickie. Over at raspberrywebserver.com, they’ve blogged a way to do a backup to your Google Drive. This only backs up one folder (which can have files, sub-folders etc) but is a neat little solution if you want a…
Linux Cheat Sheets
Everyday Linux User has blogged a load of cheat sheets for using Linux. Please take a look at these if you use the command line as these are very good indeed. Take a look here
Eben Upton giving his #RaspberryPi keynote at LinuxCon
I watched this live and it shows again how great Eben is at presenting about the Pi. The first 9 minutes are backstory and introduction and then there’s more detail of various things after that. Well worth a watch.