This is a nifty little GPIO reference board that slips over the GPIO pins, is impossible to put on the wrong way and attaches to a keyring, if that’s what you want. I spotted this months ago and I’m pleased to…
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Ask the Foundation’s Director of Software a question on the #RaspberryPi
We had several members of the Foundation at the last Cambridge Raspberry Jam. One of them was Gordon Hollingworth who, as well as being an all-round nice guy, is a mine of information about the development of the Pi and…
BeagleBone Black vs the #RaspberryPi (again)
Chris Swan has written a very balanced review of the BeagleBone Black and compared it to the Raspberry Pi on various criteria. It’s a great blog post that only falls down at the end when he concludes that the success…
Bare metal assembly language chess on the #RaspberryPi
Xu Ji, Bora Mollamustafaoglu and Gun Pinyo from Imperial College have created an assembly language chess game that runs on the Pi, without an operating system. There is a course on this kind of bare metal programming from Alex Chadwick of the…
Issue 14 of The MagPi published for #RaspberryPi owners
The July 2013 issue of the much-improved Raspberry Pi magazine “The MagPi” is now out. Star-of-the-show is the camera module which is treated to an article by Broadcom’s James Hughes who wrote the software that drives the camera. There are…
Dave Akerman wins the Farnell/Element 14 #RaspberryPi camera competition
Dave Akerman, who launches high-altitude balloons as a hobby, has won the Farnell/Element 14 photography competition, voted on by the public. His photograph, a brilliant image of Devon and Cornwall taken at a height of almost 39km, stunned the Raspberry…
Installing Groovy ROS on the #RaspberryPi
ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. Installing ROS Groovy has now been made easier by a new repository…
Mini #RaspberryPi GPIO ‘app’ explains things a bit
Gadgetoid has published a little web-based app that allows you to explore the Pi’s GPIO pins. It features explanations of each pin and often gives WiringPi examples to use them. Take a look here
The Woz plans to use a #RaspberryPi
Nice little interview with Apple founder Steve Wozniak in which, towards the end, he mentions that he’s about to start using the Raspberry Pi ‘for fun’. Read the interview here
PrivateEyePi launches home alarm system project for the #RaspberryPi
Gadjet Nut has announced a new Home Alarm System project on his website, PrivateEyePi. The site features all the information required to wire up and program the alarm system, so take a look. Read all about it