Jobs, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Video

Raspberry Pi seeks videographer to join the team

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Raspberry Pi in Cambridge is looking for a videographer to join the team:

We’re looking for a videographer to join the creative team at Raspberry Pi in Cambridge. This role will suit someone with experience working in an environment where video tasks can be very varied, with the flexibility to work on filming, video production and editing across several different kinds of content. Ideally, you’ll also have experience of online and print-based illustration and design, typesetting and photography.

For more information, see the online job description.

Making, Retro, Tutorials

Build a Gibsonian cyberdeck from a Raspberry Pi and a Commodore 64

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D10D3 on Imgur (and Twitter) has taken an old (non-functioning) Commodore 64, a Raspberry Pi 3, various connectors and some custom-fabricated bits and pieces and created his very own version of the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 cyberdeck from cyberpunk author William Gibson’s Sprawl trilogy.  He’s uploaded lots of pictures of the build onto Imgur and has also written up the project as a how-to here.

Art, Making, Shopping

Real sketching with the Raspberry Pi – Blackstripes

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Jeroen van Goor and Johan ten Broeke from the Netherlands saw a V-plotter on the Polargraph website and decided that they wanted their own version to create works of art. What they came up with was Blackstripes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi and featuring some stepper motors and wooden arms, the machines (which come in a variety of designs, sizes and configurations) are able to use many different “stick” drawing implements (such as pencils, pens, markers etc) to create stunning works of art. You can see more about the three different models they’ve created in the video below and read more on their website. You can even buy a mini version of Blackstripes so you can create your own business! You can also order art pieces by uploading your own image to their website. Prices are reasonable for the kind of effect they deliver.

Geeky Techiness, Making, Raspberry Pi Zero, Tutorials

Turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB plug-in dongle

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Hacker NODE has worked out that if you solder a full-sized USB male connector to the data USB pads and power/ground lines on a Raspberry Pi Zero, you can just plug the Zero into your PC like a dongle and connect to it. Obviously building on Andrew Mulholland’s work to get this working in the first place, it’s a nice hack that requires electrical tape to complete it (as all good hacks should!). You can see the full tutorial in the video above.