Scott Kildall has written a brief Instructable with details of mounting USB pen drives, and other USB storage devices, onto a Raspberry Pi. Mounting, in case you didn’t know, simply means telling the operating system how to use a storage device and where it is located on the file system. Here’s the guide.
Marco Barisione is part of a team working on a desktop shell for the X-windows replacement Wayland. He’s posted up details of their recent work and included a rather nice video demo of how far they’ve got with it (see below). Here’s the Foundation’s coverage of the work so far.
Instructables member prb3333 has written an extensive tutorial (with code) on programming an ATtiny85 microcontroller chip from the Pi. You have to do some compilation (of avrdude) first and wire the chip up in a certain way on a breadboard. The Tiny is a great way of getting into microcontrollers because it’s so cheap.
The Average Man has got hold of one of these lovely prototyping boards from AlienSpec and has written a very detailed review of it’s capabilities here. You can buy one for £15 delivered from their eBay shop.
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site.
This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to programming inside Minecraft that is held in the ‘Learning’ section of the Foundation’s site. This is a fairly short tutorial to get you installing the software, generating messages inside Minecraft and programmatically building with blocks. If you haven’t given Minecraft a go yet, this is the place to start!
Visit this page to get started.
Once you’ve done this tutorial, you should take a look at Craig Richardson’s (@craigargh) website in which he explores more advanced Minecraft concepts.
