Russell Barnes over at Raspi.today has conducted an interview with Daniel Stone, graphics lead at Collabora, about current progress on the X-windows replacement system, Wayland. There’s some technical detail in here and it’s a fascinating insight into the development process…
Category: Software
Virtual keyboard for the #RaspberryPi
There are a lot of different small touchscreens out there at the moment, the PiTFT being the most popular. Mark Williams has worked out how to get an onscreen touch keyboard working on his screen and has written a short tutorial about…
Finding a #RaspberryPi on your network from Linux
Pete Taylor has done a quick tutorial on using nmap to scan your network to find your Pi. Read it here. If your Android phone is on the same network as your Pi, you can also use an app called…
Write C# programs on a #RaspberryPi
Gary Sims over at MakeTechEasier has written a brief tutorial about installing ‘mono’ and programming in C# on the Pi and compiling programs so that they can be used on both the Pi and on Windows. He also covers installing the…
Build a wildlife camera with your #RaspberryPi
Porchester Junior School has written up their wildlife camera project. It’s a full account and tutorial on how to do it yourself, including installing, modifying and using ‘motion’ to capture video. Read their PDF here.
Pre-built environment for #RaspberryPi cross-compiling and NFS booting
Eric Gradman has developed a pre-built environment for cross-compiling for the Raspberry Pi that also implements NFS booting. Here’s the description from his site: It uses Vagrant and Ansible to spin up a Virtualbox virtual machine that runs on Mac, Linux,…
Playing bridge on your #RaspberryPi
Russell Davis is a keen bridge player and has been playing about with getting various pieces of software to run on his Pi. Read more here
Stroke and gesture recognition with a touchscreen on the #RaspberryPi
Mark Williams has done a tutorial on installing Xstroke which has a built-in list of strokes/gestures you can use via a touchscreen on the Pi. It reminds me a bit of the Graffiti system that used to be on PalmOS…
OpenEuphoria on the #RaspberryPi
USA-based Russell Davies needed to learn a computer language a while ago, having not programmed for years. He settled on Euphoria. This has since been open-sourced as OpenEuphoria and Russell has now brought it to the Raspberry Pi. You can download the…
Install and use Node.js on the #RaspberryPi
Frank Carver has done a short tutorial on installing Node.js, which is effectively a Javascript server, on the Pi. It’s all the rage nowadays and it’s worth having a go if you’re at all Javascript-orientated. Read all about it here