Liz Upton has blogged about an extensive road-trip on the Foundation’s blog that makes use of the Raspberry Pi. She says it better than I can, so here’s her text: Frederik and Ernest Lotter from Blue Horizon Embedded Systems in…
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Listen to aircraft transponders with the #RaspberryPi
Corq has blogged about his work on a project to read transponder information from over-flying aircraft using a Raspberry Pi and a TV receiver dongle. Read more here
Featured #RaspberryPi online shop: Mallinson Electrical
I’ve been contacted by Mallinson Electrical, who distribute the Raspberry Pi and associated bits and pieces. They let me know that they had dropped the price of the Pi and I thought I’d take a look to see what their…
#RaspberryPi with 3.2″ touch screen
Mark Williams has worked long and hard to get a small SainSmart touch screen device working with his Raspberry Pi. It may be low resolution, and tiny, but this has an awful lot of applications (I’d love to integrate it…
The #RaspberryPi desktop evolves with Wayland
In an effort to leverage the power of the Pi’s GPU, the Foundation and Collabora have been working on implementing the Wayland protocol on the Pi. The Foundation have covered the news on their blog. Read about it here or watch the…
#RaspberryPi Tracker Map reaches 1st Anniversary
Ryan Walmsley’s RasTrack.co.uk has today reached it’s first anniversary. The website, which tracks where Raspberry Pis are located and then displays them on a Google Map, is currently showing over 21,000 Pis. If you haven’t yet registered your Pi, head over…
Convert #RaspberryPi camera .h264 to .mp4
Alex Eames has documented a piece of info from Matthew Manning’s video about using MP4Box to convert the raw H264 output of the camera to an MP4 format. Read more here
Fedora returns to the #RaspberryPi with Pidora
With a new, floating-point-enabled, version, Fedora is making a valiant return to the Raspberry Pi. It’s history on the Pi has been somewhat mixed but hopefully with this new version they’ve addressed some of the issues and concerns Read more…
#RaspberryPi robot with added Missile Launcher
Just a quickie. Simon Walters has created a Scratch-remote-controlled robot that fires a BigTrak missile launcher.
#RaspberryPi goes deep for marine biodiversity monitoring
An awful lot of hackers and Pi enthusiasts have banded together to create an deep water monitoring system that takes pictures and records video. At a depth of 50m (and a maximum tolerance of 100m), this is easily one of…