Foundation member ‘avatar1337’ has written a Java-based configuration manager GUI. It enables you to change the boot options stored in /boot/config.txt in a user-friendly way. It’s currently a work in progress but the developer is very open to fixing and…
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Coder IDE for #RaspberryPi from Google Creative Labs
Google Creative Labs have created and released a new distro for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called ‘Coder’ and its sole purpose is to host a browser-based IDE to help you to learn and use HTML, CSS and Javascript to build…
Stevenage #RaspberryPi Jam – Saturday 26th Oct 2013
Ryan Walmsley, of Rastrack.co.uk fame, has set-up a new Raspberry Jam in Stevenage, which is in Hertfordshire, UK. The event will take place on the morning of 26th October at North Hertfordshire College’s STEM Centre. For more details, and to…
Special offer on #RaspberryPi and camera at CPC – £31 delivered!
Just saw this come up on the Foundation forum. CPC/Farnell are currently selling a model A Pi and a camera module for £31 delivered. Buy it here
#RaspberryPi photobooth at Open Hardware Summit
Kevin Osborn at Bald Wisdom has built on the work of a friend of his who created a Raspberry Pi tablet. Aiming to allow personalisation of an e-paper badge, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi to an LVDS screen (via…
Building a #RaspberryPi twitter bot
James Bruce has written a nice tutorial on creating a daemon that runs on the Pi to tweet webcam images. A little modification, perhaps using the previously posted Python library, to use the Raspicam and you have a great project!…
pi_piper – an event-driven Python library for #RaspberryPi
Jason Whitehorn has written a library for Python to control/read the GPIO pins based on events. It means you can write code like: watch :pin => 23 do puts “Pin changed from #{last_value} to #{value}” end #Or after :pin =>…
Run Raspivid from Python on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has created a brilliant Python class to control raspivid. It works on a threaded basis so you can trigger the camera without causing your calling code to wait for it to finish. I recommend this to anyone who…
Reducing the footprint of a #RaspberryPi
Nice little article about removing the RCA video connector and the audio jack. The author also gives a really reckless way of reducing your SD card footprint by… snipping at it with a pair of scissors. I cannot dissuade you…
The Register reviews the #RaspberryPi PiHub
Technology site The Register has published a review of the brand new PiHub and given it a resounding thumbs-up. It pays particular attention to the power of the hub and how it distributes this power to ensure that it can…