The Java Source has published a couple of videos. The first is all about getting JDK 8 up-and-running on the Pi. The second moves onto using Pi4J and controlling the GPIO
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Star Trek LCARS on a #RaspberryPi
YouTube channel owner boltszmann138 has created a Trekker’s dream come true – an LCARS interface running a Raspberry Pi. There’s lots of technical detail on his YouTube video page and he hopes to eventually publish his code open source-style so…
#RaspberryPi powered dartboard
Hopefully the headline alone should have got you intrigued. Daniel Fett from Germany has developed a digital dartboard (PiDart) where the dart hits are registered by an Arduino Mega and then sent to the Pi which records the hits and…
Control your #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote
Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, has done another tutorial video. This time he tackles the complexities (or simplicities) of getting a Wiimote running in conjunction with your Pi. It’s very simple and he’s done some example code so…
Vocal intruder warning system now takes pictures with the #RaspberryPi
Vincent Willcox previously posted about his motion-detecting, noise-making intruder warning system. He’s now added a camera module to the project and it takes a picture of the intruder. He’s used the picamera Python library to do this and it’s a…
Server monitoring with the #RaspberryPi
19-year old Brandon has written a Java application that runs on a Raspberry Pi and tweets when his servers are down. Read more about how he did it here
Code Club opens up all it’s educational material
Code Club has previously kept a firm control over all it’s material, which meant you had to run a club before you could see the majority of it. Now, however, they’ve opened it all up to the public so, for…
BerryClip+ for the #RaspberryPi review
Matt Hawkins (aka The Raspberry Pi Spy) sent me one of his new GPIO add-on boards for the Pi called the BerryClip+. The BerryClip+ is a simple, half-sized add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs straight onto the GPIO…
Ultrasonic train detector in Stockholm uses a #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat real-life project. Apologies for the use of the word ‘neat’. Viktor Rene works for Stopp Family. They are a production company that wanted to trigger the playing of a video on a billboard when an underground train…
New #RaspberryPi Foundation education website to launch at the end of March – some resources available now
The Hour of Code is an initiative to give children a flavour of programming in a single hour, with the hope that they’ll continue their exploration afterwards. The Foundation have just released a set of tutorials and resources to support…