On Saturday we were delighted to welcome along a team from Cambridge News to the Big Birthday Weekend. We rounded up a few of the guys and gels from the Foundation for them to interview and photograph and they’ve now published their article online. Read it here.
Phil Herlihy has written a tutorial for Adafruit in which he takes a Sega Game Gear handheld console and fits it out with all kinds of stuff, including a LiPo battery to power it and, of course, a Raspberry Pi for brains. Fantastic project, fully documented and one which I’d love to have a go at as I got hold of a Game Gear specifically to mod it for Pi. Phil has even exposed a USB port so you can plug a keyboard in, so it’s fully ready as a portable Pi! Read all about it here.
Stephen Blythe has built on work done by Carl Monk to create some worksheets for the camera module. The worksheets use the picamera Python library and are very simple and easy-to-follow. Take a look here.
People were surprised when the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched that there was a new operating system on the block, in addition to the existing mainstream Raspbian offering. That new OS is Snappy Ubuntu Core. It is a (very) cut-down Ubuntu distro that is perfect for small servers. Ferran Fabregas has written a tutorial that will tell you how to get it working. Read it here.
Following the huge success of his Two Years of Pi video, Matthew Timmons-Brown has now created Three Years of Pi – a tribute to the third birthday of the Raspberry Pi. You can view it below. Don’t forget to leave him a comment if you’ve really enjoyed it!
Martin O’Hanlon teamed up with David Whale at the weekend to give a talk on Minecraft to the Big Birthday Weekend crowd. For this presentation, Martin wanted to really show off the capabilities of programmable Minecraft and he has created a full Star Wars-themed animation including Alderaan being explodicated and the Death Star trench attack run.
Take a look at the video here and you can also download the code.
