Tom Lee at the Sunlight Foundation has been tinkering with an old voltmeter and getting it to work with the Raspberry Pi, using the PWM pin as the driver. Read more at their blog
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Running JVM language Golo on a #RaspberryPi
Golo is a fledgling language that runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The guys over at Golo have worked out how to get it working on a Raspberry Pi, primarily because it’s cooler than using a Cloud…
Fixing output resolution from your #RaspberryPi
Sometimes the Raspberry Pi just gets it wrong. In particular when it comes to display resolutions, this can be very inconvenient. Bertrand LeRoy has been investigating lots of different threads on the Foundation forums to find a correct answer to…
Mobile Display for the #RaspberryPi and understanding X windows
Jeff Skinner has blogged about all things X! He’s also described all the terminology you might want to know to understand what X is and how it works. He has been experimenting with using the Raspberry Pi as an X…
Digital photo frame / media panel with a #RaspberryPi
Andy Jagoe has written an Instructable for creating a photo frame or media panel with a Raspberry Pi and an LCD screen. Read the Instructable
Reactive ambient lighting for your television with a #RaspberryPi
Oscar Andersson has created a Raspberry Pi version of Philips’ Ambilight that uses ambient lighting to enhance your television experience. Best explained with the video posted on the Foundation’s site (see below). More information can be found at the Raspberry Pi…
#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD…
Control your #RaspberryPi from your laptop or desktop – two methods
Meltwater has done an extensive guide on communication with your Raspberry Pi via a network cable between the Pi and your laptop (or other machine). It’s quite long-winded, and for anything graphical it’s even longer with a lot of hoops…
Raspberry Pi cluster tutorial from Lab7
Texas-based “big data” company Lab7 are blogging about the creation of 4-node Raspberry Pi clusters. This is part one of a two part tutorial series which should tell you how they did it. Read more here
My first encounter with the Raspberry Pi | BjArTwOlF’s blog
BJartwolf needed an HDMI-enabled HD video outputting computer for an exhibition stand. The only thing that could be found was a Raspberry Pi! Read more about another success for the Pi here