The Picorder project has been progressing, albeit slowly. So far, I’ve managed to add the following items to my Pi: a 16×2 LCD board a TMP102 temperature sensor an SR-04 ultrasonic distance sensor Coming up is my first foray into analog-to-digital…
Category: Raspberry Pi Foundation
Opinion Piece: Raspberry Pi, Model A
The first engineering samples of the Raspberry Pi, Model A have been produced. Read about it here first: First Model A samples off the line! | Raspberry Pi. As you can tell from the picture above and from the Foundation’s announcement,…
Login terminal over USB/serial link to Jornada 680
The aim To operate the Raspberry Pi using a Jornada 680 (pictured, left) as a dumb terminal. The solution The Jornada 680 has a cable for sync-ing to Windows, the end of which terminates with a serial connector. Now, as…
Costs of the Raspberry Pi
I just read a rather frank, definitely honest, article by Hyperpessimist about how much it really costed him to own a Pi. Costs of the Raspberry Pi – The Hyperpessimist. Of course, he doesn’t take into account the many people that…
Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi
Amazing what you can find when you subscribe to Google Alerts searches. Here’s an interesting project to cluster together multiple Pis. via Basho | Building a Riak Cluster on Raspberry Pi.
Great Sites #3 Raspihub
Peter over at Raspihub is trying to bring together as many Raspberry Pi news sources as possible together in a dashboard-style hub. If you have any links to blogs (or RSS feeds) that you’d like to get more audience, please go…
3rd Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam
Fewer people this time at the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam, which we decided was mostly due to this being most school’s half term (one week holiday, for those not in the UK). However, it was a very busy couple of…
Gadgetoid – Raspberry Pi blog on a Pi!
Sinatra and Haml over at Gadgetoid have a Raspberry Pi blog which is actually hosted on a Pi! Go to their blog The only pity is there doesn’t seem to be an RSS feed. If there was, I’d add it…
Open source GPU userland (and opinion piece)
Very out of my depth on this one, but here is the announcement from the Foundation. At first glance, it appears to be a huge step forward, but others have taken this as an opportunity to heap abuse and criticism…
Set-up the Raspberry Pi as an access point
I’ve had a successful time getting the Pi set-up as a Wifi access point. The end result is an access point running on one wifi dongle, bridged to a second wifi dongle for an internet connection. This means that I…