Very neat video of a Raspberry Pi model A running from just 2 AAA batteries all in a ModMyPi case. Really clever stuff.
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Using a #RaspberryPi with a Freescale KL25z
Over at Raspberry Alpha Omega, Frank has been playing around with a £10 Freescale KL25z board. This board is small, beautifully formed and has a whole raft of things onboard that could be used with the Pi including 6xPWM and…
Create massive 3D models in Minecraft from 3D files on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon is being awesome again. He has created a .obj interpreter/converter for Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi. Take his script, run a 3D object file through it and see it come to wireframe life on the Pi. He’s also…
RasPlex developer calls for XBMC distros to unite for the #RaspberryPi
Dale Hamel, developer of RasPlex, has publicly called for collaboration amongst the (currently) four projects developing the XBMC media centre platform. He has called on the developers of OpenElec, Xbian and Raspbmc to join him like so: I call for…
Cambridge #RaspberryPi Jam – provisional date announced – 18th May – call for speakers
I (wisely or not!) have volunteered to organise the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam in the hope of energising the local Raspberry Pi community. At the moment, I am trying to secure a venue for the afternoon of the 18th May for…
DOS emulator for the #RaspberryPi released
Patrick Aalto has released a new version of his x86 DOS emulator for the Raspberry Pi. You can read more about it here or download the emulator from here. You can play all kinds of old DOS games with this…
Beautiful laser cut finger-jointed Model A case by Btcrafts
These have just come on sale on Etsy – wooden cases for the Raspberry Pi Model A. These are really nice-looking cases made out of birch plywood and require no glue or screws to put together – the teeth just…
#RaspberryPi camera module time lapse
I found a way to join all the snapshots from the camera module together to create this video. I used the following command to do it: mencoder “mf://*.jpg” -mf fps=10 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800
Play HTML 5 Videos and Youtube videos on the #RaspberryPi… maybe
Lin Jojen has written a tutorial on how to play HTML5 and YouTube videos on the Raspberry Pi. However, please be aware that several of the comments on the blog post indicate that the method isn’t always successful. Read more here
Guide to apt-get for the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great mini-guide to how to use apt-get on the Raspberry Pi. Read the guide here for some top tips!