Phil Atkin has been experimenting with bringing synthesizer software to the Raspberry Pi. Normally, this kind of equipment can cost £1000s but he is proving that the $35 Raspberry Pi is more than up to the job. Hackaday has just…
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Interactive graphing on the Raspberry Pi using Plot.ly
Alex Eames has been experimenting with the API of an online service called Plot.ly which allows you to send it a packet full of data which it then plots into a graph. He’s written some sample code and instructions for you to…
WhatsApp on the Raspberry Pi
Max over at EmmeShop has posted a great tutorial on communicating with the mobile messenger app WhatsApp through the Raspberry Pi. He takes you through installing the software required (called yowsup) and then using it to send messages. It’s actually a Python…
Running a Minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 2
Martin O’Hanlon, Minecraft hacker extraordinaire, wanted to see if the Pi 2’s better CPU and upgraded memory ran a Minecraft server any better than the B+. He’s documented the procedure on his blog including how to download a vanilla server (or…
Cross-compile the Linux Kernel for the Raspberry Pi
Compiling the Linux kernel on the Pi itself takes a long time – the Pi just isn’t built for it. However, you can ‘cross-compile’ it on a more powerful Windows, Mac or Linux computer thanks to a new tool from…
New version of ScratchGPIO for the Raspberry Pi released
Simon Walters has announced the release of version 7 of ScratchGPIO, the brilliant version of Scratch that enables you to use the Pi’s GPIO pins. According to Simon, the new version contains: Background engine room stuff Support for the PiAndBash…
Automatically re-connect wifi on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Bain has written a brief tutorial that will help you to set-up an automatically-running script which will detect if your wifi connection is dead and then, if so, restart the service (thus attempting to re-connect). Read the tutorial here.
Animated GIF Raspberry Pi picture frame
Here’s another project using the PiTFT from Adafruit. Timothy Reese has written a tutorial over at Adafruit in which he hacks together some off-the-shelf components and creates a rather nice picture frame. He then uses Chromium in kiosk mode to…
Replicate multiple SD cards at once with dcfldd
This is a handy, albeit brief, tutorial and explanation from Richard Hayler in which he uses the enhanced Linux dd utility dcfldd to write an SD card image to multiple SD cards at once. Read how to do it here. Very…
Artist experiments with networking on the Raspberry Pi
Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Grant has been experimenting with small mesh networks to see if they can be used for art installations. She’s created something call SubNodes: The Subnodes project is an open source initiative focused on streamlining the process of setting up…