I love retro projects (as evidenced by Daniel Bull’s recent guest post) and this one is great.
Tim Bartlett has created his own arcade case and added arcade buttons and a Raspberry Pi to be able play the old Atari game Asteroids.
Use the #RaspberryPi GPIO with the Wolfram language
Arnoud Buzing of Wolfram has written a short forum post on how to write to the GPIO using the Wolfram language that is now available for the Raspberry Pi.
Use the Pi-Lite with Node-RED on the #RaspberryPi
Chris Swan has been working with Node-RED and has worked out how to simply integrate it with the Ciseco Pi-Lite through the serial port.
Review of the U-Create #RaspberryPi starter kit
James Floyd Kelly has been sent the new £99 U-Create Raspberry Pi Deluxe All-In-One Starter Kit that is available from CPC/Farnell. He’s given it a very positive review which you can read here.
It contains everything you need to get going with the Pi including a keyboard, a mouse and a bunch of electronics equipment and a book to show you how to use it all. Really pretty good deal for a £100!
Mono 3.2.7 with hard float support on the #RaspberryPi
Chris Mobberley and Alex Petersen have been working hard to get a hard-float optimised version of Mono working on the Pi. Mono is a .Net platform which includes a C# compiler and common language runtime. You can read more here about their work and how to install Mono.
