Xu Ji, Bora Mollamustafaoglu and Gun Pinyo from Imperial College have created an assembly language chess game that runs on the Pi, without an operating system. There is a course on this kind of bare metal programming from Alex Chadwick of the…
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Installing Groovy ROS on the #RaspberryPi
ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. Installing ROS Groovy has now been made easier by a new repository…
Mini #RaspberryPi GPIO ‘app’ explains things a bit
Gadgetoid has published a little web-based app that allows you to explore the Pi’s GPIO pins. It features explanations of each pin and often gives WiringPi examples to use them. Take a look here
#RaspberryPi Voice Command reaches version 3
Steve Hickson has been working, for a while now, on his voice control software. He has just released version 3 which includes a whole raft of amendments and enhancements. Read more here Comment: Yes, that is the naffest graphic I’ve ever…
Facial recognition with OpenCV and the camera module on the #RaspberryPi
Pierre Raufast’s work with OpenCV has been featured over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog. He has used the open-source real-time image processing library to interface to the camera board, something which was previously seen as unlikely. His seven-part tutorial…
Record web server attacks with Glastopf Pi for the #RaspberryPi
Security researcher Jay Turla has been working on getting Glastopf working on his Raspberry Pi. Glastopf is… …a simple and minimalistic web server written in Python that records information of web-based application attacks like Structured Query Language Injection (SQLI), Remote…
Ground control lets you manage and monitor your #RaspberryPi
Here’s a new monitoring and managing package that shows promise. It’s called Ground Control. Read more here.
Concise guide to setting up a #RaspberryPi web server
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a guide to installing a webserver capable of serving HTML and PHP pages using lighttpd. Read more here
Dyalog APL release v13.2 for the #RaspberryPi
UK-based company Dyalog have released a version of their APL software for the #RaspberryPi. APL was apparently the language used to do the computer graphics for the original TRON in 1982. Here’s some more info from their press-release: Dyalog Limited…
Distributed processing with the #RaspberryPi and RabbitMQ
Adam Bloom from Pivotal has written a guide to installing and using RabbitMQ on a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Here’s what they say about RabbitMQ: With Pivotal RabbitMQ, we have a highly scalable, efficient, easy-to-deploy message queue. Beyond the long…