Maxim has used a Raspberry Pi to create a chess computer and he’s documented the entire process. (The game) runs from an Arduino which controls the board, connected to a Raspberry PI which runs the chess engine Stockfish and a…
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Playing around with Google Cloud Vision on the Raspberry Pi
John over at Dexter Industries has been in touch. He’s been playing around with Google Cloud services, and in particular the Google Cloud Vision API. The API is able to take an image and then interpret it to determine what…
Flash and Scratch 2.0 working on Chromium on Raspberry Pi PIXEL
Albert Hickey wondered if Chromium (being the new default browser for Raspbian) would support Flash. Most specifically, he wondered if Scratch 2.0 through the browser would work. To start with, it wouldn’t. However, following an update/upgrade, it suddenly did! Here’s…
An introduction to PiBakery, the set-up tool for Raspberry Pi
Kicker22004 has done a great introductory video to PiBakery, the pre-boot configuration tool for Raspbian written by David Ferguson. You can take a look at the video below and take a look at PiBakery yourself here.
Office memos on Slack driven from a Raspberry Pi
Nate Welch over at Arkatechture (bet that’s nice to have to spell every time! ;-)) has blogged about some integration they’ve done between instant messenger app Slack and one of their Raspberry Pis. The Pi is hooked up to sensors that detect…
Flashing the new Raspbian image onto a Raspberry Pi’s SD card
The new Raspbian image is over 4GB. This introduces some challenges when trying to write it to an SD card. In particular, unzipping it on Windows and Mac using their built-in tools will fail because they’re a bit naff. Alex…
Raspberry Pi announces the introduction of Pixel – a new look for the Raspbian desktop environment
Simon Long has blogged over on raspberrypi.org about an upgrade to the desktop environment of Raspbian, the standard distro for the Raspberry Pi. There are loads of tweaks and lots of polish including, but not limited to, theme background photographs, new…
Creating simple GUIs with EasyGUI on the Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville has been looking at GUI libraries for the Pi. He’s found EasyGUI which is very useful if you want to create something basic. There are better libraries out there that do more, but having seen the code, it’s very easy…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Building an air drum kit with a Raspberry Pi and Wii controllers
David Pride, who previously created the wonderful motorised Connect 4 game (which handed me my butt at the Big Birthday Weekend), recently went to a car boot sale and found an “air drum” kit for £1. Taking this as inspiration, he…