An alternative to the standard Motorola Lapdock modification is this laptop-in-a-case! Great Instructable. Requires the Raspy Juice expansion board, though. LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook.
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Measure temperature with Arduino and MCP9700
Found a useful tutorial on using this tiny temperature sensor with the Arduino. Using the Raspberry Pi to program the Arduino using ‘ino’ and then monitoring the serial output with ‘ino serial’, I got a temperature reading and the whole…
Raspberry Pi and Arduino – thank you Dr Monk!
Very informative post on Dr Monk’s blog about connecting an Arduino to the Pi and reading serial information using Python. Helped me have a very successful evening getting a Hello World experiment working. Saved my Pi from the bin, too!…
Moebius – a minimal Linux distribution for Raspberry PI
It’s always nice to see people mixing their own distros. I’ve not tried this one out but it’s very small – just a 230mb download! Moebius | Minimal linux distribution for Raspberry PI.
Case ideas – with photos
A brilliant forum thread over at Stm Labs which shows the cases people are using for their Pis. how about cases, what are people using?.
New Year, New Project – opinions please!
This year, I want to launch a new website for the Raspberry Pi. I currently have two ideas, but really only time enough to do one of them. So, opinions please! This is just the outline of the two ideas…
Getting To Know Your Gertboard [reblog]
Great article over at TechFruits – a guided tour of the Gertboard. The Gertboard: Lesson 1 – Getting To Know Your Gertboard.
Stepper Motor Control & Breakout Board
How to use a breakout board specifically designed for stepper motors. home automation – D.I.Y. Home Automation Projects – Raspberry Pi – Stepper Motor Control & Breakout Board.
Sweetbox – most impractical case ever?
I don’t normally criticise cases on my blog, but this one caught my eye. Sweetbox _ The perfect case for your Raspberry Pi computer by Grasping hand — Kickstarter. There are so many reasons why this case is a dead-loss:…
Make a games controller for the Raspberry Pi
ComputerActive has a nice little tutorial on how to create a games controller for the Pi. Stripboard diagrams and all 🙂 Make a games controller for the Raspberry Pi – Computeractive – PC help.