A couple of weeks ago, I blogged that OCR had released a batch of rich, educational material for teachers to use in their ICT lessons. I’ve checked back this morning and they’ve doubled the number of documents available. The new…
Category: Programming
#RaspberryPi using Scratch to control RC car over GPIO
Winkle Ink’s been tinkering with an old remote control car and a bunch of transistor based driver circuits. What he’s come out with is a remote control car that you can program from Scratch. It’s not the most precision control…
Bicycle Dashboard on the Web using a #RaspberryPi
Jeremy Blythe has been busy. He’s created a live web bicycle dashboard using his ControlMyPi project. The Pi is carried onboard his bike and then he uses a combination of the Raspberry Pi a 3G dongle the Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout…
How to Think like a Computer Scientist with Python
InteractivePython.org have created a wonderful article/tutorial to teach basic programming concepts using Python. This is an excellent educational resource. Hello, Little Turtles! — How to Think like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition.
#RaspberryPi tracking with Python and a GPS module
Robert Flipovich has described his project to track a GPS-enabled Pi over on Tech Fruits.
Interfacing #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote – additional info
Just a quick note… you can tell the Wiimote to report, and tell the Pi to read, the state of the accelerometer on the Wiimote so you can work out its orientation. Here’s a code snippet from the article: #set…
Node.js tweets #RaspberryPi uptime
Chris Hall on his Raspberry Fool blog has set-up his Raspberry Pi so that it tweets the uptime of the Pi every hour. He does this using Node.js. Read his article here
#RaspberryPi, the BerryClip and Java
I’m just preparing my BerryClip from Raspberry Pi Spy’s Matt Hawkins and this article caught my eye. Random thoughts: Raspberry Pi, the BerryClip and Java. I’ve had some success in recent days getting the Railo ColdFusion server running with the…
ColdFusion via Railo Express on a #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Purpose Purpose: Get a ColdFusion development environment up-and-running on a Raspberry Pi Equipment: a Raspberry Pi model B Time to carry out this tutorial: probably a couple of hours if you know your way around! Note: I’m doing this with…
Building a personal microcontent server with #RaspberryPi
DesignSpark member Andrew Back takes a look at how a Raspberry Pi can be used together with TiddlyWeb and TiddlyWiki to create a personal microcontent server for hosting wikis and much more. Building a Personal Microcontent Server with Raspberry Pi »…