Daniele Nicassio has been busy building a radio for his car from a Raspberry Pi, an LCD display and a set of USB speakers. He’s written a bare-bones tutorial with code examples. Read more here.
Category: Software
Using a webcam with C++ on the #RaspberryPi
Steve Hickson has been experimenting with the OpenCV video software and has written a test program in C++. Read more here
RasPlex – new media centre distro for the #RaspberryPi
Just released is RasPlex, a new media centre distribution based on the Plex Media Server. It’s currently a beta (version 0.1.27) but is receiving quite a lot of buzz in the Piosphere (a new term, think of it as an amalgam…
Replacing Google Reader with a #RaspberryPi and Tiny Tiny RSS
Conor O’Neill, like many of us, has used Google Reader in the past to aggregate RSS feeds into a manageable format. However, since Google decided to “retire” Google Reader, we’ve all been looking for a good replacement. Not one to…
Host your own cloud server using BarracudaDrive for #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
RealTimeLogic have written some great instructions for getting BarracudaDrive working on Raspberry Pi. You can either install it from the command line or use the PiStore. You then configure it by following their instructions.
Remote access for the #RaspberryPi
Ranjith Jayadevan has done a succinct post on getting remote terminal and desktop access to the Raspberry Pi from a Linux client. Read the article
OpenGL for the #RaspberryPi used to create a 3D parametric plotter
Really interesting post on the Foundation’s blog about someone’s experiments with OpenGL and plotting parameter-driven 3D shapes from the Raspberry Pi command line. Read the article here
Speech Recognition with the #RaspberryPi
Someone has written a step-by-step guide to getting speech recognition working on the Raspberry Pi. It’s just a barebones tutorial but it does give you enough to get going if this is the kind of thing you want to do.…
Repair a broken SD card “superblock” on a RaspberryPi
Introduction This has happened to me a few times, and it’s not a nice problem to find yourself in. You computer won’t boot, all your filesystem checks tell you you’ve a bad superblock, but you cant seem to find how…
Web Control of #RaspberryPi GPIO
Basic example of a web interface controlling the GPIO. Read the Instructable here. This isn’t as flashy as something like BerryIO but it gives you something basic to work from if you want to provide a web GUI.