Ireland-based programmer Walter Higgins has created ScriptCraft, a Minecraft mod that allows you to program inside Minecraft using Javascript. It uses a version of the Minecraft server modded using CraftBukkit. There’s more information and instructions on Walter’s GitHub including how…
Category: Programming
Use the #RaspberryPi GPIO with the Wolfram language
Arnoud Buzing of Wolfram has written a short forum post on how to write to the GPIO using the Wolfram language that is now available for the Raspberry Pi. Read more here
Use the Pi-Lite with Node-RED on the #RaspberryPi
Chris Swan has been working with Node-RED and has worked out how to simply integrate it with the Ciseco Pi-Lite through the serial port. Read more here.
Mono 3.2.7 with hard float support on the #RaspberryPi
Chris Mobberley and Alex Petersen have been working hard to get a hard-float optimised version of Mono working on the Pi. Mono is a .Net platform which includes a C# compiler and common language runtime. You can read more here about…
Internet radio project using a #RaspberryPi made out of discarded tech
Giles Booth (and his kids) have taken an old USB audio input/output box and made an internet radio out of it. He’s now added a button to it to change the station. Read more about the project here and here.
PiLite displays time, weather and messages using a #RaspberryPi
Martin has blogged about using the Ciseco PiLite and getting it to display useful information such as the current time and weather as well as some Christmas messages. He’s made the code available online. Read more here or watch his video below:
Access GPIO on the #RaspberryPi with Ruby
No doubt others have found this before but I don’t think I’ve seen it done as neatly as this. Using bindings for WiringPi, it’s possible to control the Pi’s GPIO pins through Ruby. Blogger “Mika” has worked out how to…
Internet-controlled #RaspberryPi Christmas decoration using PiRingo @4tronix_uk
Introduction The PiRingo is a lovely little board from 4tronix. It has a ring of 12 LEDs and two switches and is plugged directly into the GPIO socket of the Pi. It comes in 5 different flavours (which are basically…
Drive a scrolling LED badge from a #RaspberryPi
Dave Akerman (of high-altitude ballooning/Babbage Bear fame) has taken apart a £13 LED badge, re-soldered some of the connections and written some nifty script in C to create a status display for his ballooning flights. Read more here
ScratchGPIO gets support for the Pibrella #RaspberryPi add-on board
Simon Walters (@cymplecy) has been beavering away at his ScratchGPIO software. This software brings GPIO support to Scratch so that you can use LEDs and, now, expansion boards from the popular visual programming environment. The latest board to receive support…