Greg Payne at Labvolution has written a brief tutorial on using fswebcam and a script he wrote to take images from a USB webcam and upload them to Dropbox. Read more here
#RaspberryPi 7-segment temperature monitor
The Average Man previously wrote a tutorial on creating a prototype of his 7-segment temperature monitor. He’s now taken an EZasPi prototyping board and made a more permanent version. You can read more about the board and his use of it over on his blog.
Educating with the #RaspberryPi at Maker Faire
Some of the Raspberry Pi Foundation team were out in San Francisco this past week at Maker Faire. MAKE interviewed Clive Beale about the Pi and recent developments with their education effort.
New British #RaspberryPi case and robotics solution on Kickstarter
The Little British Robot Company and Kre8 have teamed up to bring to market a construction-grade cardboard case system and robotics kit. They’re currently running a Kickstarter campaign to judge the size of the market and to raise funds for the project.
The campaign is made up of the following products:
- A protective cardboard case for the Pi.
- A case for a battery pack.
- A robot chassis, motors and wheels kit.
- The HapPi GPIO board that can be used to control motors
There are various levels of pledges for the different parts.
If you’re interested in a low-cost method of casing your Pi or doing robotics, this is well worth a look.
3D turtle graphics with Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon’s been busy again. He’s created a new library for Minecraft Pi Edition that allows you to create a ‘turtle’ that will draw blocks on the screen. Of course, this means it’s in 3D, giving an entire new dimension (literally) to normal turtle graphics. Read more here.
Music played on disk drives powered by the #RaspberryPi
They’ve just covered this over on the Foundation blog so I thought I’d share it with you.
YouTube channel owner Arganalth plays music. On old disk drives. It has to be seen to be believed. He’s recently moved from PC/Arduino to the Raspberry Pi to drive the playback and his latest is the Back to the Future theme (see above). Read more about it, including the tutorial that led to him doing this, over on the Foundation’s blog.