A digital signage application has been shown to work on the Raspberry Pi. Paul Stone has released a couple of videos that show it in action.
The Concerto Digital Signage Project is online here. The source links are at the bottom of the page and it’s not necessarily easy to find a simple ‘how to’, but I daresay someone will write one soon.
Thanks to Grant for spotting this!
A group of 4th Year MEng students from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have created a remote-controlled rugged 4-wheel drive “moon buggy” using two Raspberry Pis at it’s core. The students, Calum Morrison, Neil Comerford and Joshua Walhane have recorded this video (see below) which shows the rover, named “Tiberius”, driving around their campus, both inside and out. It shows the capabilities of the rover including traversing some railways ties and climbing a steep slope as well as the operation of a robot arm. Onboard sensors and a webcam feed back telemetry to an Android-device app which is also used as the remote control. Really worth a look this one!
Micho at Neophob.com has been experimenting with setting up the Raspberry Pi as an I2C master with an Arduino slave. Read more here
Alex Goodyear from The Culham Centre for Fusion Energy has created a video wall from a set of Raspberry Pis. Read more here
This is a great idea. A keyring-sized slip-on guide to the GPIO. I’ve asked the inventor about making it double-sided with the alternate functions such as TX, RX etc, so it’ll be interesting to see how useful he can make it.
SB Components is now selling their Raspberry Pi Model A case from their website. In their words:
The case is a two-piece injection-moulded ABS enclosure that snaps together around the Raspberry Pi. It provides tough, colourful protection for the Pi.
Regular readers will know that I hold their cases in the highest regard having given their Model B case a 9/10 in my review.
I don’t have a Model A myself, so if anyone would like to contribute a guest review, please contact me.
The new case is available to buy from the SB Components Online Shop for £4.85, apparently including delivery.
Disclaimer: I have no connection to SBC apart from liking their products!
