Good, concise article over at Raspberry Pi Spy on how to rename your Pi from the boring default 🙂
Rob Bishop tweets that the camera unit is ready
Twitter / Rob_Bishop: @Raspberry_Pi cam is ready ….
As with all announcements from the Foundation, I wouldn’t get too excited until it’s actually on sale and available. But at least there’s a pic of a breakout board!
PiFace – new product from Farnell/Element 14
Proving that Farnell/Element 14 are still championing the Raspberry Pi cause, they’ve just announced that, in addition to their Gertboard Pre-Assembled product, they will soon be supplying the Pi-Face.
Pi-Face Digital plugs directly onto the top of your Raspberry Pi, and allows you to sense and control the real world. Detect switch states, for example from a door sensor, a pressure pad or any number of other switch types. Then write your own software for Raspberry Pi that determines how to respond to that switch state. You can drive outputs to power motors, actuators, LEDs or anything you can imagine.
Press release here:Â element14 announces exclusive deal with new Raspberry Pi accessory – PiFace Digital | Premier Farnell.
PiBang Linux OS
UPDATE: The creators of PiBang Linux have updated their download. However, they did not notify me in order to change my download. I don’t have time to keep on checking, so please don’t look here for more updates.
Saw a reference to this via ScoopIt and tracked it down myself.
This is a Linux distro inspired by Crunchbang Linux and based on Raspbian. There are a list of differences here. Key features seem to be removal of a lot of extraneous software (like Scratch) and use of the Openbox desktop environment, rather than LXDE. Apparently, Openbox is faster.
Release candidate 4 is now available to download.
PiBang Linux homepage is here.
BambuserPi – PuppyCam!
Well. I followed this tutorial at Slickstreamer and got my Raspberry Pi streaming with Bambuser.
At the moment, it’s just showing my dog sleeping, but I promise it is live. (Until I shut it off, but I’m going to leave it going as long as possible.)
How to watch videos in Linux console with the help of MPlayer
An interesting article on playing video without being in the X Windows GUI. Should be interesting to see if we can do it on the Raspberry Pi!
How to watch videos in Linux console with the help of MPlayer.