Kiran Kankipati has posted to the Raspberry Pi Google+ community about TrafficSqueezer which is a WAN optimization device that runs on the Raspberry Pi 2. They’ve provided a downloadable OS image for easy set-up and it relies on using a USB-to-Ethernet adapter. Read more here.
Francois Dion is currently blogging about his team’s (Piedmont Triad of North Carolina) efforts to launch a high altitude balloon payload with 7 (count ’em!) networked Raspberry Pis and multiple cameras. Read more here.
I can’t pretend that I know exactly what Matt Williams is talking about in his article, but suffice to say he’s doing something very impressive with his Pi. I’ll let him explain:
Substructure substance matching is, in many ways, a non-trivial exercise in Cheminformatics. The amount of data used to determine matches grows very quickly. For instance, one method of describing a molecule’s “fingerprint” uses 880 bytes. Or 2^880 combinations. This space is very sparsely populated, but there are still many potential combinations.
If you’re still with me, in his article he explains how the Pi does pattern matching with grep and how it speeds up when reading from the cache. Read his article here.
This is simply beautiful. Poopi and Piter have created a “paludarium” – an enclosed biodome in which environmental conditions are simulated – which contains both land-based and water-based lifeforms.
The paludarium is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and 4 ATmega 168P chips and has the following equipment hooked up:
It really is a lovely project they’ve designed. I can’t find anything more about either the project or the guys (or girls!) behind it, but here’s a video of it in action from simulated sunrise to simulated sunset.
The music is “Healing” by Kevin MacLeod.
I spotted this over at the Central Florida Aquarium Society.
David has written a great little app that creates a web server on the Pi that is used to display graphed information about the Pi 2’s 4 CPUs. He has written up the project here and made the code available online. You run the script on the Pi and then open up a browser on another device to see the graphs. See a video of it in action below:
The Foundation has just announced a new programme of Picademy training at a centre in Leeds. Picademy@Google will take place on the dates shown below at a pop-up space known as a “Digital Garage”:
Run by hand-picked community members and educators, these two-day sessions will be “a mix of hands-on making, project-based learning and general hacking”.
You can find out more details here and apply for a space on the courses here.
This is a really fantastic initiative and could be the start of something incredible – a portable, two-day syllabus of CPD for teachers that can be put into different areas of the country making it accessible to a much wider range of educators.
