Craig Richardson has been working on a book in which programming is taught using Python and then utilised in the visual environment of the Pi edition of Minecraft. This yet-to-be-finished book was featured on the Foundation website a couple of weeks ago. As they said in their piece, it is sure to become a valuable resource, especially for workshops and schools, as and when it is finished.
As it stands now, it is already a great resource.
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!
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.
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
Jay Doscher has written a blog post about powering your outdoors Raspberry Pi with solar panels from Adafruit. Read more here
Matt Manning has come up trumps again. He’s built on his work with Webmin and added in Samba file storage on his Pi.
