A few days ago, I featured Pimoroni’s PiGlow as a product to watch out for. This little £9 board gives you 18 independently-controlled LEDs and can fit inside a Pibow case. Pre-launch boards have now been sent out and Gordon Henderson (of…
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Run the #RaspberryPi from an external hard drive
Ted Hale has looked at the work done by Foundation Forum member Rattus to “boot” the Pi from a hard drive and done an in-depth step-by-step tutorial on how to do it. Running from a hard drive, rather than the…
Run the #RaspberryPi on 3.3V of power
Dave Akerman knows all about power, and how to use as little as possible to power the Pi. He has written a tutorial into how to do this. Now, please note that this will void your warranty and possibly your…
Tweeting coffee machine using #RaspberryPi
Martin Harizanov wanted his Raspberry Pi to tweet whenever his coffee machine was ready to be used. So, he decided to use a light-dependent resistor to monitor the ‘ready’ LED on the coffee machine. It’s a bit low-tech in that…
New distro based on Wheezy for the #RaspberryPi – pipaOS
It’s been a bit quiet on the distro front recently, but here’s news of a brand new distro based on Debian Wheezy. It’s called pipaOS and features the following (the most impressive of which is the 10-second boot-time!): Fully functional…
Getting started with WiringPi2 for #RaspberryPi with RasPi.TV
Alex has been using Gordon Henderson’s WiringPi2 library for Python. This is the start of a short series looking at this library, how to use it and the advantages it has over the RPi.GPIO library. Read more here
Upcoming project features 15-foot high brain sculpture lit by a #RaspberryPi
Rebecca Linke has blogged about a project called Mens Amplio which is, essentially, a 15-foot tall sculpture of a stylised human brain lit using LEDs. An ECG headset reads the user’s mind and then a Raspberry Pi is used to…
Video4Linux2 driver now available for #RaspberryPi Camera module
Please note, I have not tried this myself! Foundation Forum member ‘RpiName’ has just posted an announcement of a Video4Linux2 driver for the camera board. This should open up a whole raft of possibilities. The V4L driver SHOULD expose the…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – 20th July 2013 – My write-up! #raspberrypi #raspberryjam
Note: This is very long… Grab a coffee. It took a while to write! Around 50 Raspberry Pi enthusiasts descended on the Milton Road Science Park headquarters of Cambridge Consultants on Saturday for the 2nd 2013 Cambridge Raspberry Jam. I’d…
First 2013 Cambridge #RaspberryJam podcast
Rob and Lawrence from Cambridge 105 attended the first Raspberry Jam we held in Cambridge this year at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. There was a podcast from a week or so later that I completely failed to find until…