SoggyBunz has lashed together an arcade-style coin dozer game using a Raspberry Pi and the shell of a Macintosh Plus. He uses a servo to activate an acrylic plate that moves back and forth, pushing coins over the edge. Read more here.
See a typical lesson (with adults) with the #RaspberryPi
In this video, you can see teacher Alan O’Donohoe at the Manchester Raspberry Jamboree ‘teach’ a roomful of educators how to use a Raspberry Pi. This gives a great insight into some of the typical challenges you might face as a teacher in a classroom and some techniques to overcome them.
Stripped down #RaspberryPi brings new life to Gameboy
Travis Brown has taken an old Gameboy and squeezed inside a stripped-down Raspberry Pi, a composite screen, a battery and several smaller components and created a beautiful retro gaming device. His full account of the build including loads of photographs can be read here and a video of it in action can be seen below:
A completely new musical instrument powered by a #RaspberryPi
I’ve just seen this over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog and I just had to share it with you just in case you’re not following them (which you should!)
David Sharples from the University of Pennsylvania needed a subject for his senior design project on his BSE degree. So, he decided he would build a musical instrument with a Raspberry Pi. The end result is the Joytone – a large pad of joysticks that play different sounds at different pitches. It’s truly an astounding project that is a thing of beauty. Read more on the Foundation’s blog or read the full account of the build over on David’s blog. There’s a video embedded below which gives you a feel for what the instrument can do.
Run a QuakeWorld server on your #RaspberryPi
Sorry everyone. Looks like the downloads have disappeared.
RawShark has been looking at running QuakeWorld on his Pi and has now come up with a way to do it. Here are his instructions (reproduced from his original thread):
1. download nQuakesv (linux server version) from http://nquake.com/
2. Use the script to download and install everything. Answer no to both “QTV” and “QWFWD” – no binaries yet for Pi
3. go to nquakesv / folder and backup mvdsv and ktx/qwprogs.so (rename)
4. download the raspberry pi binaries of these files from here:http://files.quake.ie/linux/quake/mvdsv-ktx-raspberrypi.zip
5. give +x permissions to mvdsv (its called the multiview server and replaces the old qwsv binary)
6. add pak1.pak to /id1 folder if you have that file
7. to start your server, type ./run/port1.sh
Shazaam! The server has started in 28501 port.
If you want to actually PLAY on the Pi, use this pre-compiled client binary:http://files.quake.ie/linux/quake/fte-raspberrypi.zip
You can also check out Quake III Arena and OpenArena on the Pi too.
Speed coding event in Cambridge to use #RaspberryPi
Supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and ARM, there is a speed coding event for primary schools being held at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge on June 12. Called a ‘coding jamboree’, pupils from several primary schools will visit 10 different coding “pods” and carry out coding experiments using Scratch, Python, BASIC and Sonic Pi. Read more here