That’s right! I’ve now posted over 1,000 pieces of Raspberry Pi news. This is either a) impressive, b) very surprising or c) really geeky. I’m happy with any or a combination of them! 🙂
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Monitor the temperature of your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat little programming project. Fechu has written a set of scripts to allow you to monitor the operating temperature of your Pi and then see it, via a web browser in a fancy graph form. Pick up the scripts…
Pi Hut has 7 Port USB Hub on sale today
To make way for stock of a new hub, Pi Hut are selling their £10 hub for £5 at the moment. Read and buy here
Motion-detecting security camera tutorial for #RaspberryPi
Foundation forum member nazargren has written a step-by-step tutorial for creating a Raspberry Pi security camera with the cameram module and using the mmalcam modification of motion. Really worth checking this out if you want to do something similar. And no,…
Dave Akerman prepares the High-Altitude Babbage Bear / #RaspberryPi flight!
Updated: Added link at the bottom to tracking info Dave Akerman is planning a Sunday, 11th August midday launch for his latest high-altitude balloon flight. This time, he will be releasing a payload with a separate parachute at 39,000 metres.…
#RaspberryPi case challenge – design it, get it printed
i.materialise, Autodesk 123D and the Foundation have teamed up to run a competition in which you will need to design a 3D-printable case for the Pi. Full details of the competition and how to enter can be found here The prize…
Big, green, chunky #RaspberryPi camera
Viorel Spinu from Romania just emailed me with this one. It’s a chunky, green camera made from a Raspberry Pi and a camera module. It was sponsored by “Sprite” so bears their logo and watermarks every image with the Sprite…
PyPy releases two new versions for #RaspberryPi
PyPy, the Python interpreter that’s gaining a lot of support due to it’s blessing from the Foundation, has just announced two releases: PyPy 2.1 (targeting version 2.7.3 of Python) is the first release for ARM processors in the JIT. PyPy3…
More port expander goodness with #RaspberryPi Spy
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy is also ‘at it’ with an MCP23017 port expander and has done a lower-level tutorial dealing with the smbus library rather than WiringPi2. Read it here
Using the MCP23017 port expander with WiringPi2 on the #RaspberryPi (continued)
Alex is continuing his series on using the MCP23017 port expander to give you lots of lovely extra GPIO ports. Read the third part here or read the first two parts here.