In the past few months, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put a lot effort into making their free CPD course for teachers, known as Picademy, portable so that they can take it on the road. Their next two-day event will be in Devon on the 4th and 5th of June at Exeter Library. So, if you’re a teacher and you would like to find out how the Raspberry Pi can be used in classrooms, apply now! More information about Picademy can be found here.
Here’s a very interesting interview with Eben in which he discusses the development of the Raspberry Pi 2. It’s from Issue 14 of Linux Voice, which is relatively recent, so it’s definitely worth reading. There’s plenty of other stuff in there, like the split between industrial/hobbyist/commercial and also some detail on Compute Module sales. Read it here.
Portland-based Giando Sigurani has created a portable word processing system from a Raspberry Pi 2 and a few other bits including a full-size keyboard and track pad, SD card reader and exposed USB port. The whole thing has been built into a varnished cigar box (complete with blood stain from when he was carving). It boots straight into LibreOffice and all other software has been removed to lessen the temptation of distrations. He has come up with two possible names: The Ambition Box and the Write-O-Tron. He has a tiny screen (looks like a 3″) attached but has configured everything so that text is clearly readible. He is currently using it to write his second novel! You can see it in action below:
Torkel Danielsson has paired the Compute Module using two cameras with a PC and, with a friend, has developed a way of streaming the stereo images to an Oculus Rift 2. Not much detail on how, but it’s very cool so I thought I’d share it with you.
Lazarus Pascal is a free Delphi look-a-like and compatible Pascal development environment based on FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). Hans Luijten from Tweaking4All.com has written a comprehensive tutorial on installing Lazarus on the Pi 2. He also includes instructions for installing it on other Raspberry Pi models, albeit an older version from the main repository. Read more here.
Connor Yamada has done a nice write-up of his project to create an ‘action camera’ with his Raspberry Pi and Camera Module. The results are mixed, to say the least, but it does show what is possible with a bit of 3D printing know-how and a bit of help from Alex Eames and his RaspiCamcorder script. It also shows the limitations with the camera module and capturing high-speed footage. Read more here and see some footage below.
