Apologies for the lack of updates over the past few days, I’ve been on a holiday from blogging but I’m back now!
Make has done a nice round-up of retro and rare OSs that you can run on the Raspberry Pi. Read all about it here.
Raspberry Pi powered Hexapod – the HexPi
Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
4tronix gives an update on their Raspberry Pi robotics kit
Online retailer 4tronix has been working on a robotics kit for some months now and they’ve just provided an extensive update as to their progress. They’ve recently been featured on RasPi.Today and now Gareth has published a blog post telling us how they’re getting on with bringing the kit to market. The update includes pricing (£60+VAT for the full kit and £33+VAT for the ‘Lite’ version) and a full list of features. So head on over to the blog post to read more.
Assembly guide for the Pi Supply on/off switch for the Raspberry Pi
The Average Man has done a great assembly and set-up guide for the Pi Supply power on/off switch. You can read the guide here and you can purchase the on/off switch here.
August issue of The MagPi is out for Raspberry Pi owners
Issue 26 of The MagPi is now out. Features include:
- Introduction to the model B+.
- Robotics articles.
- Persistence-of-vision magic wand project.
- VoIP server.
- Beer brewing.
- Using BitScope.
- Programming with FuzeBASIC.
Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi Model B+
On Thursday I attended an Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which he talks about the Pi, the Compute Module and also introduces the model B+. He also fields questions from the audience. Element 14 has now posted up a recording of the session on their website which I’ve embedded below. It’s definitely worth listening to as Eben puts dates to various different upcoming things. If you want to read a summary of the session, go to this page on my blog.