Over at raspberrypihelp.net, they’ve written a tutorial to get CherryMusic working on your Pi. They’ve called it a Spotify look-a-like, although I can’t see a huge similarity, but it certainly seems to be a way of doing the streaming.
Pure Python library for the #RaspberryPi camera reaches maturity
Dave Jones has been working on picamera, a pure Python library to allow you to interface with your Raspberry Pi camera module. Ben Nuttall has posted over on the Raspberry Pi website that the library has continued to be developed and is now ready for people to use.
Read more here including instructions on how to install the library on your own Pi.
Build your own SatNav with a #RaspberryPi
I think I missed this when it was first published, so here we are now.
Over at the excellent smstextblog, there’s a tutorial on building a SatNav using the Pi and an Adafruit LCD touch screen. Great stuff. Lots of software to install, but it’s a fun project if you’re that way inclined. Plus you could take it further and add an Adafruit GPS board and have a fully integrated solution rather than using a dongle.
1st Peterborough #RaspberryJam for owners of the #RaspberryPi
Mike Mills, who came to our last Cambridge Jam, has decided to run his own in Peterborough!
The Jam is being held at Peterborough Regional College on Saturday 15th March.
He’s running a morning programming workshop, which you can register for here and an afternoon session suitable for all, which you can register for here. Registration is free.
Myself and Tim will be attending – look forward to seeing some of you there!
Register your interest for an adult #RaspberryPi Camp in Bristol
Cardiff-based Absolute Raspberries are proposing to hold a two-day computing camp in Bristol. The event, which is proposed to run on 22nd and 23rd March will include an introduction to the Pi and then a whole weekend of programming and tinkering with the computer ending in a robotics hack session where teams will build their own robots and possibly compete against each other.
The proposed cost is £150 non-residential and £220 residential, which is great value-for-money.
To register your interest (and this is just to register your interest, not to make a firm booking), visit their EventBrite page.
Great #RaspberryPi websites – no. 7 – PiWeekly.net – @pi_weekly
This is number 7 on my list of Great Raspberry Pi Websites. These are sites where lots of high-value information for the Pi can be found.
piweekly.net
This time, the featured site is PiWeekly.net. PiWeekly, as it’s name suggests, is a weekly Raspberry Pi newsletter. It is edited and curated by Ben Nuttall (@ben_nuttall), who now works for the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Ryan Walmsley (@ryanteck) who founded Rastrack.co.uk and now runs his own company RyanTeck Ltd. The reason I’ve chosen PiWeekly as one of my “Great Sites” is that the newsletter they publish is of extremely high quality and contains great content, week after week. Currently (as of 10th January 2014), they have over 5,600 subscribers and deserve many more. So, I will say what I always say about Pi Weekly: If you haven’t subscribed yet, Why the heck not?!
You can view all the archived issues here and even submit stories to be considered by the editors here. If you’d like to know more about the editors, visit their About page. You can also follow the team on Twitter (@pi_weekly)