The Foundation has done a nice piece on the release of the latest and greatest version of OpenElec, the XBMC distro. Read more information here or get the OpenElec distro from their site.
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element 14 webinar recording – #RaspberryPi accessories
This was a webinar hosted by element14 luminaries Drew Fustini and Cabe Atwell in which they discuss the next stage in the Raspberry Pi revolution: the development of easy to use accessories. This webinar focusses on the PiFace and Gertboard.…
RasPi.TV solders the P5 header onto the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames has done an excellent (as usual) video on how best to solder a header onto the P5 pin holes on the Raspberry Pi. The results are surprising, to say the least, but if you really want those extra…
Another Conway’s Game of Life – this time with PyGame
Coronax has blogged about his ‘beginners’ experiment with Python and the PyGame library. He’s managed to get a working example of Conway’s Game of Life running on his Raspberry Pi. Read more here
Run your #RaspberryPi as a Spotify server
Wouter van Wijk has built a Raspberry Pi distro image called Pi MusicBox that will run a Spotify server with little or no intervention or configuration. Read more here
OctoPrint – control a 3D printer from a #RaspberryPi
Another quickie – just a link to a repository for OctoPrint which provides a responsive web interface for controlling a 3D printer (RepRap, Ultimaker etc). Get the code here
System info script in Python for the #RaspberryPi
It has been pointed out to me that CAGE has mostly taken their script from Jeremy Blythe’s work here. A quickie from CAGE Web Design – a Python script to print out some basic system info for the Raspberry Pi. Read…
#RaspberryPi Shotter – webcam timelapse
Daniele Nicassio has done a great tutorial on using a webcam to automatically take photos every 10 seconds and then create a timelapse video out of the images, all on the Raspberry Pi. The great news for me is that…
PiUi: framework for a simple mobile phone UI to your #RaspberryPi
David Singleton’s been hard at work on creating a Python framework for Raspberry Pi mobile phone user interfaces. Read more here
Round up of #RaspberryPi Jamboree 2013 by Ben Nuttall
Good write-up of the epic event up in Manchester. Read it here