Harry Fairhead over at I Programmer has read and reviewed the book Practical Raspberry Pi by Brendan Horan. Not a very positive review, really! Practical Raspberry Pi.
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#RaspberryPi takes 100,000 Euro INDEX prize
The Raspberry Pi has won the Play category of the INDEX prize, netting the Foundation a 100,000 Euro prize. The money will be spent on hiring two new employees to further their educational aims. Big congratulations to the Foundation for…
Set up a #RaspberryPi web kiosk
Mike Brooks has written a comprehensive tutorial on setting the Pi up as a Chromium web kiosk. As part of the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we’re planning on having a PayPal kiosk, and we’re hoping that these instructions will help…
Special offer at Maplin: Wireless mini keyboard with touchpad
This sweet little wireless mini keyboard with touchpad is currently on special offer at Maplin and is a mere snip at £12.99. Visit the Maplin Electronics website
Install Cloud9 on a #RaspberryPi
Bernaschina has written a tutorial on installing the web-browser based development environment Cloud9 on the Pi. Read all about it here
A pan-tilt kit Kickstarter for the #RaspberryPi camera module
OpenElectrons.com, who have previously created Arduino shields for NXT motors and other NXT bits, have launched a Kickstarter project for a nifty pan-and-tilt mechanism for the camera module called the Pi-Pan. You can still back it for the next 12…
Missing cat found using a #RaspberryPi
A nice practical Pi project, this one. This Pi enthusiast was worried that one of his 5 cats had disappeared. (Aside: Why would anyone want 5 cats? 5??? Anyway…) So, with the theory that the cat returned at night…
Dewarp panoramic images from your #RaspberryPi camera
Katherine Scott, with some awesome mathematical work, has figured out how to turn a photograph taken using the camera module with a Kogeto 360 degree lens from a warped image to a true panorama. I imagine the concept would work…
Wireless Serial Communication with the #RaspberryPi – Part 1
A blog post on A Slice of Raspberry Pi details how to set-up the Pi end of a wireless serial link. It uses the Slice of Pi GPIO board to do this. The second part, which shows how to set-up…
Connect a Google Glass to the #RaspberryPi using XMPP
Adafruit has published a tutorial which uses the XMPP protocol to talk between the Google Glass platform and the Raspberry Pi. Read more here