Miguel Grinberg has worked out how to play the live stream being broadcast from the International Space Station on the Raspberry Pi. It involves installing some software and writing a short script and is well worth the effort if you’d…
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#RaspberryPi NAS for Travellers
Ben Perove has written a tutorial for setting up a Pi as a NAS (storage) device that is as compact as he can make it. Read more here
Automated Packet Capture on a #RaspberryPi
William Knowles wanted to create a penetration testing tool and ended up using a Pi. It has since ended up being a data collection device in his Industrial Control System research as a packet capture device. Read here how he’s…
Detect WiFi access points using a #RaspberryPi
So you want to do a bit of NSA-style snooping, do you? Well, now the $6000 price tag has been dropped to around £100 by taking a Pi, a wifi adapter and a GPS unit. Some guys over at Hyperion…
Capture screenshots from Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, of Raspberry Pi Spy, has worked out how to take screenshots of Minecraft Pi Edition. The previously tried utility, scrot, was unable to capture from the 3D game whereas the new tool, raspi2png manages it. Read more on…
Sonic Pi v2 for the #RaspberryPi
The title says it all, really. Release candidate 1 of the newest version of Sonic Pi is now out and available for download from the Sonic Pi website. If you’re interested in making music with the Pi, or you’ve tried…
Plot data graphically on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, wanted to plot some data on a graph. He’s managed to do it using a piece of software called “gnuplot”. Take a look at what he did over on his blog.
Maynard: a Wayland desktop shell for the #RaspberryPi
Marco Barisione is part of a team working on a desktop shell for the X-windows replacement Wayland. He’s posted up details of their recent work and included a rather nice video demo of how far they’ve got with it (see…
Building a #RaspberryPi VPN server
Lauren Orsini has been doing Pi stuff again and has written a comprehensive tutorial to setting up a Pi as a VPN server using OpenVPN. Full instructions on how to do it are available over at readwrite.com.
Create your own J.A.R.V.I.S. with Jasper and the #RaspberryPi
If you’ve ever wanted to replicate Tony Stark’s J.A.R.V.I.S., you can be well on your way with this project. Shubhro Saha and Charlie Marsh from Princeton University have developed an always-on voice-recognition-and-response system called Jasper. It recognises it’s own name…