Matt Hawkins has done a brief tutorial on using the software package ‘fim’ to display images on the command line. He’s also included a nifty example of converting your image to ASCII art! Read it here.
Category: Software
New release of NOOBS and Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new version of Raspbian is now available, as well as a new version of NOOBS containing that new release. The following features are included in the update: New firmware with various fixes and improvements…
Speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi
Pete has done this great tutorial and list of instructions/code to create an speaking alarm clock with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi downloads headlines from the internet and then plays them back with whatever is connected to the 3.5mm audio…
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a security camera
The Average Man has used a distro image called MotionPie and a Nwazet Pi/camera case to create a security camera set-up for his father. It’s a rather neat solution to a common security problem. Read how he did it here.
Run Windows on the Raspberry Pi (sort of)
Greg McCarthy decided to see if it was possible to run Windows on the Pi. He succeeded with versions 1.01, 2.1 and 2.11. He also used someone else’s instructions to get Windows 95 running as well. All the versions use Qemu to…
Light a Single Neopixel from the Raspberry Pi’s UART pin
It must be Neopixel day or something. In this tutorial, Josh teaches us how to light up a single Neopixel using the Raspberry Pi’s UART TX pin and a piece of software called “neouart”. Read the tutorial here if you’d…
Sonic Pi v2 for the Raspberry Pi is now out!
Dr Sam Aaron yesterday announced the official launch of version 2 of his brilliant music software Sonic Pi. I’ve played around with the beta version of the software before, and it’s a great update – you can now “live code”…
New web browser for the Raspberry Pi has been released
Eight months after it was first announced, Epiphany for the Pi has been released. This is a new web browser for the Pi, replacing the venerable but dated Midori, and comes with the following features: Much-improved HTML5 support A JavaScript…
Licence plate recognition on the Raspberry Pi
Luka Gabrić discovered an open source framework for doing licence plate recognition called OpenALPR and decided to test it out on the Pi. He’s written a blog post on the software you’ll need to give it a go yourself and you can see…
Reset a forgotten password on your Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins has worked out a way to reset a forgotten password on the Pi by editing a file on the boot partition of the SD card. So, all you need to do is to take the SD card, edit…