Pete Taylor got a Debug Clip from the recent Kickstarter campaign run by Ryan Walmsley. He’s now put it through it’s paces by using a Windows tablet to communicate with the Pi via serial. His review can be read here.
Using a Raspberry Pi 2 to make MIDI music
JosephEarnest has taken a Raspberry Pi 2, a USB digital-to-analogue converter (for sound output) and some other components soldered to stripboard to create a midi input/output device. The software is written in Python and cython and is available here. He’s made the whole thing open source on his website where you can read more and, perhaps, build it yourself. You can see a video of it in action below:
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Picademy USA
Great news today – Picademy is going to the USA! Based at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Picademy USA will be made up of 4 sessions, each hoping to reach 25 US educators. This will be a free, hands-on experience for the educators just as it is in the UK. Read more here.
Great write-up of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV has written a brilliant blog post all about CamJam which took place on Saturday, 6th June. It covers everything that was going on in the Marketplace and Show-and-Tell. I’ll be writing up my experience of the day very soon. I’m currently dog-proofing the garden in advance of getting a new puppy next week (hence why it’s been a little quiet on the bloggage front!) Read Alex’s write-up here.
Raspberry Pi clock and weather display
Kevin Uhlir has taken a Raspberry Pi and a large HDMI screen and then programmed the Pi to use the Weather Underground API to create a clock and weather monitor. The software will run on Windows, MacOS and Linux as long as Python 2.7+ and PyQt4 is installed, making it truly cross-platform. Read more and see the software here.
Mini Raspberry Pi handheld computer
The Ruiz Brothers have published a new tutorial on the Adafruit website. This tutorial shows you how to create a handheld Raspberry Pi computer using a 3.5″ PiTFT screen, a mini wireless keyboard and a LIPO battery. It’s rather nifty and all the pieces go inside a 3D-printed case that is fully hinged. They do point out, however, that the 3.5″ screen is slower than the smaller screens available so it’s not much good on the video front. This is a shame as it would make a fantastic portable gaming console. Oh well, it’s a nice project anyway. Read more here.