Lauren Orsini has been doing Pi stuff again and has written a comprehensive tutorial to setting up a Pi as a VPN server using OpenVPN. Full instructions on how to do it are available over at readwrite.com.
New #RaspberryPi powered Kickstarter aims to make choosing music a social experience
The Sweden-based Blicko team have just launched a Kickstarter to support their hardware/software project which is a jukebox-style music playing system. Here’s what they say on their page:
Blicko began when we noticed a problem in the way music is consumed and experienced in groups. What tends to happen is that people crowd around the music device and interrupt each others songs. To solve this we have created a digital take on the traditional jukebox. With the Blicko music box hooked up to your speakers and Wi-Fi you and everyone around are in control of what’s playing. You can access the box from your smartphone, tablet or PC. Blicko supports a variety of music streaming libraries, such as Spotify, WiMP, YouTube, and SoundCloud.
The Blicko music box plays songs from a queue that can be reached by a simple URL. With our intuitive web-interface you can control the box from any device with a browser. By sharing the URL to your friends, several people can collaboratively select music by queueing and voting on tracks. Users can identify themselves with social network logins and choose to share their activity in real time.
As an administrator you can also schedule playlists and playback events, as well as distribute administrative rights and set different levels of user interaction. The box’s history can easily be exported as a playlist for your favorite music library. Our servers keep track of what all boxes should be playing and makes the data available for you on the web. This makes it simple to synchronise several boxes on different locations.
The whole system runs on a Raspberry Pi in a rather attractive case.
You can see the rest of the information on their Kickstarter page here and you can read some more on blicko.com
New distribution for the #RaspberryPi – RuneAudio
RuneAudio is a free and open source software with a specific objective: to transform an embedded platform (a cheap, silent and low-consumption mini-PC) into an Hi-Fi digital music player. It offers a lot of features and aims to be easy to use, flexible and future-proof.
Here’s what Andrea Coiutti had to say: “As many other open source projects, RuneAudio came out from personal needs: we all were using a laptop as digital source before, but we weren’t happy about absolute sound quality and ease of use. Our girlfriends didn’t like it either, as messing around with laptop and cables in the living room was dramatically lowering the WAF of our Hi-Fi systems”
You can download the distro image for the Pi from RuneAudio here or read more about it here.
Setting up your #RaspberryPi with Johnny Ball!
Childhood legend to the over-30s Johnny Ball has kindly donated his time to the Raspberry Pi Foundation to voice their new video about setting up the Raspberry Pi. It tells you everything you need to know about what goes where when setting up the Pi. Go over to the Foundation’s site to see the video – it’s epic!
Interview with Eben Upton about the #RaspberryPi and how it’s changing the world
Over at ReadWrite.com, Lauren Orsini has done a really nice interview with Eben about the development of the Raspberry Pi, the inspiration behind it and some of the projects it has inspired. A lot of the stuff you’ve probably read before, but there’s an interesting section about all the different prototypes that they went through before the Pi was eventually born in its current form.
How to take basic photos and video with your #RaspberryPi camera module
The Average Man continues his series on the camera module with a tutorial on using the raspistill and raspivid commands to take stills and video.