Vince Weaver is working on implementing a set of Back to the Future-style time circuits with his Pi. It’s in the beginning stages, but looks very promising. He’s looking to build a circuit board from the project but, quite frankly, just a tutorial to do it with wires would suit me!!! 🙂 (I grew up in the 80s and love BTTF!)
The PiCrust is a lovely little board that sits on top of the GPIO pins and breaks out the pins into sensible groups. I’ve got three myself and they’re really handy for prototyping circuits.
Pi-and-bits supplier “Pi Supply” is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce Joe Walnes PiCrust in the UK. You can see Joe’s site here.
The Kickstarter campaign is running for 4 more days and you can get hold of a Crust for £13. You can also place a pre-order for a Crust for £14 from their website.
Martin O’Hanlon has been doing some work on the video recording software, RaspiVid, for the camera module. He’s written some instructions on how to do this yourself. So, if you’re all-at-sea when it comes to using GitHub and just want to contribute without too much messing about, you could do worse than read his tutorial.
Martin Harizanov has posted up instructions for adding framebuffer support to the Pi to support little displays such as this:
You can buy the 1.8″ display that Martin’s got from his store. It costs all of 12 Euros. He doesn’t always have stock, but contact him for more information.
I spotted this a day before the Foundation posted about it, but I just couldn’t believe that it was Pi related. It’s a tiny tiny tiny Mac, or rather it looks like a Mac but it’s actually a stylish case with a Pi running Raspbian and a Mac emulator. It’s the brainchild of John Leake. You can read his original post on his own blog and it was also covered by Adam Rosen over at Cult of Mac.
Here’s the interior… I’ve seen some hacks in my time but take a look at this! Read John’s original blog post for a description of the bits and pieces.
Read the article over at the Foundation or watch the video below.
Harry Fairhead over at I Programmer has read and reviewed the book Practical Raspberry Pi by Brendan Horan. Not a very positive review, really!
