The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced new images for the three main operating systems (Raspbian, Debian and Arch) for the Pi. They include recent firmware and kernel updates. Download them here
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Build a satellite receiving station with a #RaspberryPi
Timothy Stranex has written a blog post about creating a satellite receiver with a Raspberry Pi and a USB radio receiver. Read more here
RPi-Monitor v1.4 released for the #RaspberryPi
Xavier Berger has released version 1.4 of his Raspberry Pi monitoring software. Instructions on installing it are available on his blog
Learn Python and PyGame on the #RaspberryPi
David Briddock continues his excellent long-running series on learning Python by introducing PyGame in a broad overview.
Now Google funds Irish #RaspberryPi schools scheme
Google will provide 1.5 million Euros of investment in a partnership with Trinity College Dublin to promote computer coding skills in second-level schools. More than 1,000 Pis will be given to students and teachers. Irish Minister for Education and Skills…
Reading RFID tags with the #RaspberryPi
I found this and thought it might be of interest. This is an ongoing project to create a stand-alone kiosk with the Raspberry Pi. The author has moved on to reading RFID tags using a breakout board. Read more here
Stream #RaspberryPi camera to multiple clients
On the Foundation forum, Philip Heron has posted about a piece of software he’s written to stream video from the Raspberry Pi camera module to multiple TCP clients. fsphil/net264 · GitHub.
OCR with the #RaspberryPi camera
Over on the Foundation forum, “mikerr” has worked out how to translate an image of text taken with raspistill into a text file. Read more here
Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer
Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There’s also a great script to monitor a DropBox…
Aberystwyth Sailbot uses a #RaspberryPi
I had the pleasure of meeting the Aberystwyth Sailbot team at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. They did a great presentation on their work on an autonomous model sailing boat that they planned on entering into the Massachusetts Sailbot 2013 competition.…