Low Voltage Labs presented on working with the GPIO at LinuxFest Northwest a few days ago. The session covered: An overview of the GPIO Basic electronics needed to connect to it Flashing an LED Reading an input Connecting an LCD…
Category: Articles
Overkill, yet cool, with a water-cooled @Raspberry_Pi
Bit-tech modder James Couzens has taken the Pi’s non-existent heat problem to heart with his water-cooling project. You can read more about the project at Bit Tech and full details are available on their forums.
Virtualization on the #RaspberryPi with vPi (coming soon)
From xtravirt.com: “If you are a VMware evangelist and love the Raspberry Pi, what do you do? You create vPi of course! That was Xtravirt’s co-founder Alex Mittell‘s thought when he decided to put together the vPi project. vPi is…
Raspberry Jam for the #RaspberryPi in Harlow, Essex – 25th May #rjam
The first Harlow Raspberry Jam is being held on the 25th May at The Time Machine from 12.30-5.30pm. There are only 20 tickets left, so if you’re in the area and want to attend, I suggest you move quickly! Register here
Nwazet Key Lime Pi analog breakout board now available at Pimoroni for #RaspberryPi
I’ve been following the Nwazet guys for some time. Pimoroni have just started to stock the Key Lime Pi and also the IR Receiver kits. I’ve only just soldered my Key Lime (which has 8 analog inputs!) and will be posting a…
MiniPiOut from the Coding Club – simplest GPIO breakout for the #RaspberryPi
The Coding Club have also today released information on the MiniPiOut which is a very (and I mean VERY) simple way of breaking out the GPIO pins to outside of a case that allows a cable to pass through. It…
Python resources for teachers – useful for learning with the #RaspberryPi
The UK Coding Club initiative has just released a bunch of lesson plans, source code and information useful for teachers taking their students through the beginnings of Python. Read more here
Voice Controlling a #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has blogged about, and released the code for, his speech control software. It uses the Google voice API and you basically say “Pi”, wait for a confirmation and then tell it what to do. There’s a video and…
Moway Robot and #RaspberryPi
Spanish company mOway Education have released a Raspberry Pi version of their software which works with Scratch. The mOway robot itself is a two-wheeled sensor-loaded car and communication is handled using RF with a dongle plugged into the Pi. This…
School in Delaware, USA adds #RaspberryPi to Summer School
The Jefferson School has added a computer segment to its summer school. The Delaware-based school will be teaching students how to set-up and use the Raspberry Pi in a week-long summer school from July 22-26. Read more here including an interview…