A nice bit of happy Friday blogging that I might have covered before but never mind! Worth more air-time.
Rob Miles (@robmiles) has been working on a large (an entire table) table-top arcade machine. You can check out his build progress on his Journal. The current build progress is shown above! Looks very snazzy!
Thanks to PiWeekly.net for the heads-up.
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/#
