Stewart Priest, Chief Engineer for hospital radio station Radio Lollipop, wrote to the Foundation about a project he’s been working on with the Pi. He’s soldered a board and created a case for the Pi which allows them to extend the range of their station by streaming via wifi to the Pi.
It’s a lovely little set-up and one which the Foundation is fully supporting.
Mark Williams has decided that using an IR remote control for XBMC just wasn’t good enough, so he has worked out how to use the controller, LIRC and WiringPi to control the GPIO pins.
Alex has been busy again. Spurred on by his wish to do a prize draw that picks a random twitter follower, he has used the Python library “tweepy”, found out how to use it following a Twitter API change, and published the code for us all to use.
Ben Leb has forked Jason Barnett’s original PiGlow Python code (https://github.com/Boeeerb/PiGlow) and produced a slimmed-down easy-to-use version.
Might well be worth a go for PiGlow owners!
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 set of personal assistant apps that you can run on a Raspberry Pi.
Any application developed for Cozy can be shared with other users easily through Github.
You can run Cozy at home on your Raspberry Pi and they provide an image for that. Performance is decent and you can run 4 to 5 apps simultaneously. The only issue is that the application installation is quite long (10 to 20 minutes).
Open-Source Project home: http://cozy.io/
Raspberry Pi installation instructions: http://cozy.io/host/raspberry.
Demo: https://demo.cozycloud.cc/#
Got contacted by these guys a few days ago and have only just got round to having a look at the Kickstarter.
Now, obviously this isn’t strictly Pi-related, but I thought it was such a cool board that it was worth giving them a little bit of exposure on my blog.
SODAQ is a multi-feature microprocessor board that lets you connect sensors and devices to the internet, quickly and with no fuss. It’s designed for connecting things efficiently, running off-grid with built-in, ready-to-go solar power.
The board has built in sockets for Grove modules; a realtime clock; extended flash memory; USB on-board; and the Bee socket can take any WiFi/RF/XBee or other compatible plugin for communications instead of our GPRS module.
Their Kickstarter has some very attractive reward levels, including an £80 pledge for the full board, battery, solar charging panels and GPRS module.
