A group of researchers from Symantec took a Raspberry Pi, added a bluetooth receiver and then snooped on the data being broadcast from bluetooth-enabled wearable devices. The researchers went to busy public places in Switzerland and Ireland to see what data they could find and were amazed at the sheer volume being leaked out. They didn’t try and connect to any of the devices, just listened in on what they broadcast. Read more on the BBC news site or their own blog.
Simon Walters has written a nice script which automagically turns your Pi into a wireless hotspot. It only works with 8188CUS-based adapters at the moment, but it’s a great starting point if you want to be able to connect to your Pi wirelessly and headless at, for example, a Raspberry Jam. Read how to get the script here.
Arnoud Buzing of Wolfram has just written a guest post on the Foundation’s blog about a new version of Mathematica that has just become available for the Pi. This is version 10 and it contains over 700 new functions and improvements to most parts of the system. Read more, including how to install it, here.
Recently at the Better Embedded conference in Florence, Open Electronics ran into Pete Lomas and decided to ask him some questions about the development of the Pi and it’s evolution into the Compute Module and model B+. It’s not often we see an interview with Pete, so it’s well worth a read.
The organisers of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam (myself and Tim Richardson) have just announced the rules and challenges for the first ever dedicated Raspberry Pi robotics challenge competition. The competition will take place on 6th December 2014 at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and registration for the event will open on 15th September. There is a warm-up Jam taking place in September which will have a focus on robotics so you can get help and learn skills that will aid you in the competition.
You can read all about the competition by visiting piwars.org. You can also listen to the rules and details about the competition challenges by going to the RasPi.Today podcast. Challenges include: straight-line speed test, three point turn, obstacle course, line following, aesthetics, code quality and more!
Pi Wars is also looking for sponsors for the competition, so if you’re a company or an individual that would like to help us out, and gain publicity in the process, please visit this page on the piwars.org site.
A couple of hackers have taken a toy gun, fitted a Raspberry Pi inside, and then used a see-through screen (like you get on teleprompters) to create a shoot-the-asteroids game. Very cool project. You can read more on Avishay Orpaz’s blog or watch a video of it in action below:
