This is just a quick post to say “Go and read this!!!”
It’s a post on the Foundation website by Liz who, together with Eben, has been helping at the Broadcom MASTERS. It’s truly inspirational stuff.
Looping video automatically with the #RaspberryPi
Both Steve Hickson and Tim Schwartz have worked on SD card images to automatically play videos on a loop using omxplayer. Take a look at Steve’s blog post and also Tim’s blog post.
Review of The Pi Supply for #RaspberryPi
Matt from RaspberryPiIVBeginners has reviewed the ‘intelligent’ power supply for the Pi called “The Pi Supply” (imaginative name, I know). Interesting piece of kit that gives you push-buttons to turn the Pi on and off in a sensible manner.
#RaspberryPi MotorPiTX build and testing from RasPi.TV
Photo from RasPi.TV
Alex was busy on Saturday and soldered up his MotorPiTX board. This board is a base for building robots and includes two motor controllers and 2 servo controllers along with various inputs and outputs.
I’ve got one as well and built it but Alex has beaten me to the punch on blogging 😉 If I didn’t have to work today or didn’t have rehearsal tonight, I’d be getting straight onto using this board as it’s well designed and put-together.
Raspberry Jamboree 2014 tickets go on sale for #RaspberryPi fans
Early-bird registration is now open for the 2014 Raspberry Jamboree, being held in Manchester from 27th February to 1st March.
Read about the event and register here. It’s half price @ £10 until 30th November.
Pi-Lite ‘Hello World’ example for #RaspberryPi
Matt over at Raspberry Pi Spy has written some Python code to generate a Hello World example on Ciseco’s Pi-Lite.