Stephen Wolfram and his team have been working on the Wolfram Language for 30 years and it is almost finished. Wolfram is designed to be a “totally symbolic, heavily natural, intensely knowledge-based, and extremely large computer programming language” although no-one…
Category: Software
Virtual keyboard for the PiTFT for the #RaspberryPi
The Adafruit PiTFT is a nifty bit of kit that fits on top of the Pi and gives you a small touch screen display. William Phelps has created a touchscreen keyboard for the PiTFT and has shared the code on…
Installing Hadoop on a #RaspberryPi
Hadoop is a framework, written in Java, for handling large datasets. According to the Apache website: The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple…
Cloud data logger with the #RaspberryPi
The guys over at Fluentd have written a short tutorial post showing how you can use the fluentd software to send statistical data to the Treasure Data cloud storage/analysis api. It doesn’t give very much help in terms of integrating it with…
Weather forecasting on your #RaspberryPi
Gary Sims at maketecheasier has written a tutorial about getting plain text weather forecast details using a utility called weather-util. This software is easily installed from the command line from Raspbian’s repos so you have no excuse for not getting…
Set up WordPress on your #RaspberryPi
Gary Newell has written a comprehensive guide to getting WordPress working on the Pi. First of all, you need to follow his tutorial on starting a personal web server. This ensures you have all the required software. Then, follow his…
Auto install X remote control on the #RaspberryPi
Simon Walters has written a script that will allow you to install X11VNC onto your Pi. This will allow you to connect, using a VNC client, to the X-windows desktop. Very useful as the procedure can be a little tricky.…
#RaspberryPi device alerts you when International Space Station is above!
Paul Brown has done an excellent, comprehensive review of a beta of Liam Kennedy’s ISS-Above device. This device, which is being funded by Kickstarter, has an LCD display that alerts you whenever the ISS is overhead and gives other information…
Open Source PC XT-compatible virtual machine for the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation have just blogged about an excellent virtual machine that runs on the Raspberry Pi. It was written by Adrian Cable and is at an early stage at the moment. The end result he’s hoping for is that the…
What is Node-Red? And how do you use it on the #RaspberryPi?
Adafruit has written a comprehensive tutorial on getting the Node-Red visual development environment to work on the Raspberry Pi and given details on what you can use it for. Read it here