I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Fahad Siddiqui from Packt Publishing last week about Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. You can read that interview here. Packt have done some great Raspberry Pi books which you can find out more about here. Here’s a video of this year’s Pi Wars that Matt Manning shot and edited:
Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that WICD, his usual method of setting up wifi in a command-line environment, didn’t work. After 3 hours of messing around, he discovered that it conflicted with dhcpcd5. Removing this made WICD work again. He has posted about it on G+ but here are the instructions anyway:
To install WICD:
sudo apt-get install wicd-curses
To remove dhcpcd5:
sudo apt-get remove dhcpcd5
Once you’ve done those two commands, WICD will be up and running again.
Wesley Archer has taken an old Playstation console, a Raspberry Pi, a few other bits and some custom circuitry and created a retro gaming machine. He’s now blogged about it over at Pi Supply. Read more here.
Packt Publishing have been offering a free e-book a day for a while now. Today is the turn of Richard Grimmett’s Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects.
Here is a contents listing direct from their web page:
Don Howdeshell (who previously taught his daughter not to wake her parents up at an un-godly hour using a Pi) wanted to allow his wife to control the garage door from the Android tablet mounted in her car. So, he interfaced a Raspberry Pi with the mechanism and hey, presto, that is in fact what he managed to do. Read about the build on his blog.
A beautifully-designed Raspberry Pi-themed calendar featuring the artwork of Sam Alder is now available from the Swag store, priced at £5.99 for a limited time (rising to £7.99 at some point, which is still a bargain). I grabbed a peek of it at The MagPi’s stand at Pi Wars and it just looks lovely. Head over to the Swag store to order.
