Just a quickie. Here’s a comprehensive tutorial for connecting an Arduino to your Pi using the I2C protocol. Both sides of the communication is done using C, but it’s pretty easy to understand even if all you’ve ever used is Python. Take a look here.
Robert Coggeshall (Sudo Bob) has taken a 50-year old teletype unit and resurrected it, thanks to the Raspberry Pi and a few other electronic components. You can read about the build and find out more here.
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first part here and find subsequent parts here.
Martin O’Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book teaches programming concept using the programmable Minecraft API. You can read more about the book on Martin’s blog here and you can purchase it from Wiley or Amazon (UK, US).
I will be receiving my review copy in the next few days from Wiley and will bring you my opinion soon, probably over the weekend.
Alex Eames has shot a video in which he measures the power consumption of the Model A+, the Model B+ and the Model A doing various tasks (idling, starting up the desktop, watching video and shooting video with the camera). It’s an interesting watch. For those of you who don’t want to watch the entire video, he’s also provided a summary table. Read more and watch the video here. It really shows the low power consumption of the A+, which makes it ideal for battery-powered and embedded projects where power is at a premium.
Spencer (Mr UK Tech Reviews) got sent a new ‘flash ring’ by Cyntech. It’s a mounting plate for the Raspberry Pi camera module that surrounds the lens with LEDs. He’s done a short review here.
