The Foundation has blogged about a motion tracking experiment developed by Erik Haderup. It “uses a Raspberry Pi to wirelessly transmit live motion tracking data from a set of 13 inertial measurement units”. Read about it and watch a video here
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Retro heaven with a #RaspberryPi powered C64
Neil Crump shows off some Raspberry Pi-powered retro goodness with Commodore 64 emulation (using Vice) inside a C64 carcass.
Expansion boards galore on eBay for #RaspberryPi
I was browsing through eBay and I thought I’d share with you some of the expansion boards I’ve found for the Raspberry Pi. First up is a 16×16 LED matrix board from Pridopia. For £29.99 you get a board that…
Firefox OS for #RaspberryPi now available
Philipp Wagner has managed to get the new Firefox OS built and working on a Raspberry Pi. This is an immense achievement as it will truly give us another ‘flavour’ of OS for the Pi. At the moment, the OS…
Guide to the GPIO from Linux Fest Northwest for the #RaspberryPi
This is a really excellent, in-depth guide to the GPIO and what you can connect up to it. There’s code examples, there’s info on expansion boards, technical info. Definitely worth a read for those who are on the steps from…
Using an iPad as a display for the #RaspberryPi
Jeff Skinner has been using his iPad together with the iSSH app from Zingersoft. This gives him not only access to the command line, but also (more importantly) applications on the Xwindows desktop! Read about it here
#RaspberryPi in a NES case
Igor Kromin took a non-working Nintendo Entertainment System from eBay, a Raspberry Pi and some know-how and put them all together so he could run a NES/SNES emulated games. Read about his project here
PiSNES – Super Nintendo Emulator for #RaspberryPi
There’s a new emulator on the block, this one from developer Squid. This is a Super Nintendo emulator running on the Raspberry Pi based on the SNES9X emulator. Read more and get it here
Slackware ARM on a #RaspberryPi
I don’t think I’ve blogged this before. It’s always nice to see a different distro on the Pi. This time, it’s Slackware’s turn. Read more and get the distro here
Monitoring your pet’s home life with the #RaspberryPi
Colorado-based hacker Dox has written some Python and teamed it up with a webcam to monitor his pet remotely. The script listens to a specific email account and when a specific email is received it takes a snapshot and emails…