Craig at Arghbox has written a tutorial that allows you to build a potato-driven interface. By utilising a touch-capacitance sensor from Adafruit and plugging wires into potatoes, the system can determine whether or not you are touching the potato!
New Kickstarter – Mini-ITX Motherboard for the #RaspberryPi
Here’s a neat little Kickstarter. It’s a motherboard-sized board onto which you mount your Raspberry Pi. It includes space for a 2.5 inch SATA hard drive (although not sure how this connects to the Pi), a 4-port USB hub, an RS232 serial port, broken out GPIO, a real-time clock, a built-in temperature sensor and a built-in IR remote module.
Pledges to receive the board start at £40, which isn’t bad.
#RaspberryPi powered door sensor plays sound effects
This intriguing Adafruit tutorial, written with George Brower, has you creating a door sensor using a Pi and a PIR sensor which applauds you when you enter and boos when you leave, thanks to the built-in speaker. Read the tutorial
Solar powered #RaspberryPi
Jay Doscher has written a blog post about powering your outdoors Raspberry Pi with solar panels from Adafruit. Read more here
Network Attached Storage with the #RaspberryPi
Matt Manning has come up trumps again. He’s built on his work with Webmin and added in Samba file storage on his Pi.
#RaspberryPi tracker website Rastrack re-launches and speeds up
Ryan Walmsley’s rastrack.co.uk website has just relaunched with a new database back-end and notable front-end improvements. I’m on a really old laptop (Dell Inspiron) at the moment and it’s very fast for me! Check it out and, if you haven’t, register your Pi now!