Simon Walters (@cymplecy) has been beavering away at his ScratchGPIO software. This software brings GPIO support to Scratch so that you can use LEDs and, now, expansion boards from the popular visual programming environment. The latest board to receive support…
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Wolfram Language and Mathematica comes to the #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a partnership with Wolfram Research to include Mathematica and the Wolfram language in future images of the Raspbian operating system. It’s intended that this will make the Pi a “first-class platform for teaching computer-based…
Connect a #RaspberryPi to 3G using a dongle
The guys over at “The Fan Club” have been slogging their way through connecting the Pi up to the 3G mobile network. They’ve documented the procedure for your viewing pleasure. Read it here
Advantage vPi for the #RaspberryPi offers VMware toolbox
Enterprise virtualisation solutions provider Xtravirt have developed a new Raspberry Pi SD card image download called Advantage vPi. Here’s what they say about it: Advantage vPi is a complete VMware vSphere management toolbox solution in-a-box designed to run on a…
Quick guide to Nano text editor on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a brief guide to using the Nano text editor. This is an essential piece of software for those who work from the command line and is the staple for things like Git.…
3D scanner made up of 40 #RaspberryPi boards and cameras
Richard has developed a 3D scanner using the Pi and the camera module… actually, 39 of them! He’s created an Instructable and also set-up a website specifically for the project. He recently took it to the Maker Faire in Groningen, Netherlands…
Cozy, a personal Cloud running on the #RaspberryPi
Frank Rousseau, co-founder of Cozy Cloud, contacted me a couple of weeks ago and I’ve now got around to doing something about it. Here’s an introduction to Cozy and links to get you started. It’s a free and open-source personal cloud and…
How to take screenshots on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, the Raspberry Pi Spy, has done a great tutorial on how to take screenshots of the Pi when in the X GUI interface. It uses a piece of software unfortunately named ‘scrot’. :p Read how to do it here
How To Setup Minecraft On The #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has decided to give Minecraft on the Pi a go. You can follow his installation procedure here on the blog.
WordPress for #RaspberryPi using Nginx and MySQL
I’m just setting up a new blog for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam. 🙂 I’ve managed to install WordPress on a rev 1 256mb Raspberry Pi using Nginx as the web server and MySQL as the back end. This was accomplished…