Following on from a previous post in which he showed how the Pi can be used to emulate a mainframe, Andrew Back has now moved on to describing how to turn a couple of Pis into a VAX cluster. He…
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More on the Raspberry Pi desktop update/upgrade
Simon Long is the user interface guru at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the one responsible for the desktop updates featured in the new Raspbian. He’s written about some of the process he went through to improve the desktop…
New desktop for the Raspberry Pi released
Slightly under the radar, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a new, slicker and more user friendly version of the standard Raspbian desktop. You can get the new desktop by downloading a new image for your Pi or by typing…
Using the Raspberry Pi with Mathematica in schools
Adriana O’Brien has posted up a series of lessons that she has used at Kenwood Elementary School in Illinois to teach programming using Mathematica to interact with the Pi’s GPIO. Definitely worth a look if you want to use Mathematica! Read it…
ScratchGPIO version 6 launched for the Raspberry Pi
Simon Walters has just announced the latest version of his ScratchGPIO software that runs on the Raspberry Pi and allows you to program the GPIO pins from within Scratch. According to his blog post, the following features have been introduced:…
Raytracing on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi isn’t exactly what you’d call a graphics processing workhorse. Craig Lindlay, however, has managed to turn it into a small raytracing platform that will generate images onto a 320×240 screen from Adafruit. He calls it the “Raytracing Minion”…
Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called ‘matchbox-desktop’. It is a very minimal environment but works well with small touchscreens such as the PiTFT or the PiScreen. Read the…
Time Machine backups to the Raspberry Pi
Phil, over at the Kingdom of Philtopia, has written a tutorial that shows you how to use Samba on the Pi to act as a backup storage device for Apple’s popular Time Machine software. Read it here.
Create your Raspberry Pi SD card images ahead of time with Pi Kitchen
Meltwater has just published information on Pi Kitchen, which is a way to pre-create your SD card images. You create ‘recipes’ which inject various settings and scripts into your SD card image when it boots up… at least I think that’s…
Render photographs from the Raspberry Pi camera into Minecraft
Ferran Fabregas has worked out a way to take images and render them in Minecraft Pi Edition. He’s now extended that idea and created a Python script using picamera to take a photo and then send it into Minecraft. Brilliant…