Linux User magazine, in association with the Little British Robot Company, are giving away a Makeblock Starter Robot Kit to one reader who:
Great prize, great competition, what’s your excuse? Enter it! 🙂
Cat Lamin has continued her work with the EduKit and has written up a second blog post about her experience. Read it here.
Alex Eames at RasPiO has just launched a new product. Following on from his successful port labeller boards for the model B, he has now launched one for the B+. It’s pretty nifty and is narrow enough that it fits inside the new Cyntech/ModMyPi B+ case. It features labels for both numerical and BCM pin numbering systems on either side of the board. Best of all, it only costs £2. Read more and buy one here.
John Reder has taken the shell of an old Commodore 64 and placed a Raspberry Pi inside. Using PiMAME he has emulated the C64 and now has a working system! Read more here or view the video below.
Thanks to advice from Daniel Bull, I’m now using Ubuntu to host the blog on a Digital Ocean virtual ‘droplet’ (virtual server).
This post is just to test things out and make sure that all the social sharing is working 🙂
A team comprised of Raspberry Pi Foundation insiders, directors of Pimoroni and a music producer have banded together under the title of FiveNinjas to launch a Kickstarter for a new media player called ‘Slice’.
The aluminium-cased player is based on the Compute Module and features a custom-designed host board that brings out everything you need to plug it into your television and play media from the inbuilt 1TB hard drive.
The team is as follows:
It’s certainly a very pretty media player, lit from the inside by what look like Neopixels. It’s not the cheapest – at £159 for early birds, rising to £179 – but it’s got that ‘cool’ feel to it that could be very appealing to the right market.
The Kickstarter runs until 25th September and can be found here.
