The Digital Harbor Foundation are running a Raspberry Jam on Saturday, 3rd December at their tech center on Light Street in Baltimore. The event runs from 10am-4pm and looks to be a mix of show-and-tell and free-form hacking. Get your free tickets here.
get_iplayer is a set of scripts that can be used to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Recently, Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV noticed that something was amiss and that the scripts no longer worked. Well, he has now come up with a solution to the problem and get_iplayer works again, but only if you follow his instructions which are available on his site.
Andrew Mulholland was a Space Wrangler for the YouthZone this year at MozFest, the massive London-based get-together for people hoping to make their way in the tech world, and the Internet in particular. He has now, after the dust has settled and his feet/brain have recovered, written up his account of the way things happened. It certainly seems like a fantastic event and it’s great to hear what happened from Andrew’s perspective. Read all about it here.
Zach and Jake are two 16-year olds who are starting up a company called MakeTronix. To launch their company, they are running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to produce the MakeTronix Alarm. It is a hobbyists’ alarm system featuring a GPIO plugin board featuring 11 buttons, a red LED and a buzzer. Also included is a PIR sensor and some jumper wires to attach the sensor to the main board. The team’s plan is to create tutorials and lesson plans around the board for educational value. The board sells for £11 (earlybird) rising to £12 plus shipping on IndieGoGo. They’re aiming to sell at least 100 of them to reach their funding goal of £1200.
Zach’s hopefully sending me a board to look at very soon and I’ll report back on what I think of it. 🙂
Michael Lyons from Florida has taken a second-hand Radica Sega Genesis system (which he bought off eBay for a dollar), prised it apart, removed the innards and replaced them with a Raspberry Pi 3. And all in one sitting! He’s recorded himself doing it and you can see the process in the video above.
SixFab (and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The ‘shields’ are as follows:
They are compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi (including the original, which they’ve mis-labelled the ‘A’) and come in a variety of form-factors. These look like well thought-out boards, and well worth a look. Pledges start at a not-unreasonable $19 for the GSM/GPRS board rising to $99 for a 4G board, which again isn’t that bad if you can afford it.
They’ve already started making tutorials for the boards, which proves that they do at least work and there’s a fair amount of support behind them.
Worldwide shipping is included (bravo, guys) and the campaign runs until 17th December seeking to raise $50k. I’ve made a pledge for one of the super earlybird GPRS/GSM shields, just as a punt.
Take a look at the campaign video below or go to Kickstarter here.
