The Foundation has done a post on the BBC programme Cracking the Code which featured the launching of one of Dave Akerman‘s weather balloons with a Raspberry Pi attached. If you’re in the UK, you can watch the programme via…
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Using a webcam with C++ on the #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has been experimenting with the OpenCV video software and has written a test program in C++. Read more here
#RaspberryPi manufacturing slowly moves to the UK
Following a 7-month transition period, Premier Farnell last week announced that all it’s Raspberry Pi units are now officially Made in the UK. This was great news for most Pi enthusiasts who always believed that a UK-invented product should be…
Enigma machine / Bombe emulator on a @Raspberry_Pi
Interesting image from the Big Bang Fair. This was built by GCHQ. This is what the card at the back says: The Raspberry Pi Demo The Cluster The cluster is currently running a historically accurate, distributed Bletchley Bombe, capable of…
#RaspberryPi Palm Top
Jason Birch has created a tiny-tiny standalone Raspberry Pi set-up with a 3.5″ composite LCD and an XBox Chatpad. Read about it here
RasPlex – new media centre distro for the #RaspberryPi
Just released is RasPlex, a new media centre distribution based on the Plex Media Server. It’s currently a beta (version 0.1.27) but is receiving quite a lot of buzz in the Piosphere (a new term, think of it as an amalgam…
#RaspberryPi playing video on 2.2″ LCD
Jeremy Blythe has written an interesting blog post on encoding video and displaying it on a 2.2″ LCD device with his Raspberry Pi. Read the post
13-year old Amy Mather & her Game of Life on the #RaspberryPi
Amy gave a presentation at the Manchester Raspberry Jamboree on the 9th March about how she programmed Conway’s Game of Life on a Raspberry Pi. Here’s the recording: It was generally considered to be highlight of the Jamboree and I…
#RaspberryPi camera module unboxing / @Raspberry_Pi
I’m chuffed to bits to say that an official Raspberry Pi camera module dropped through my letterbox today. This is a unit that the Foundation is kindly allowing me to beta test in advance of it becoming generally available to…
Installing PHP and nginx on a RaspberryPi
Jose Carlos Andreu has written a great tutorial on how to use the lightweight web server nginx to run a PHP web server on the Raspberry Pi. Very well written. Read the tutorial