I’ve edited this post since I originally posted it as someone pointed out that it wasn’t just the Pi controlling the printer. Doh!
Daniel Blair has hooked up his Pi and an Arduino to the printer, a Printrbot, and used a piece of software called OctoPrint on the Pi to drive the printing. There’s even a Pi distro you can download called OctoPi if you wanted to do the same, but make easier on yourself. You can view a video of Daniel’s printer in action below or read more on his blog post.
Daniel Robinson, from the UK technology website V3, has done a very balanced, enthusiastic review of the B+. Read it here.
This is number 9 in my list of Great Sites.
This time, it’s RasPi.Today, a fairly new site which showcases it’s own podcast and original interviews. It is currently the only website that offers a regular podcast. Created and managed by Russell Barnes, RasPi.Today was launched on 27th June with it’s first three podcasts, the first of which was an interview with Carrie Anne Philbin. It’s already gone from strength-to-strength with some exclusive news and interviews, most notably with Eben Upton when the Model B+ was launched on 14th July. Russell has clearly gone for quality over quantity and has cherry-picked the best, most important pieces of news, as well as highlighting niche projects such as 4tronix’s forthcoming Pi2Go. The Podcasts are improving all the time and I now look forward every Friday to the next instalment. The design of the site is clean & professional and it’s a real pleasure to visit.
And those are all the reasons why RasPi.Today joins my very small list of ‘Great Sites’. If you haven’t visited the site yet or you haven’t listened to any of the podcasts, head on over there now!
Many thanks to Andrew Schroeder for suggesting this worthy addition to the list of great sites.
Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia from the University of Cambridge recently ran two three-day workshops in rural India using the Raspberry Pi. The first workshop was for 15-19 year olds and the second was for a younger group of 6-12 year olds. The Raspberry Pi Foundation supported this effort and have now reported on the workshop activities over on their blog.
Arvind Sanjeev has taken a Raspberry Pi, a small LCD screen and a lens and created a wearable, hat-mounted device that accepts voice commands. You can see a video of it in action below and read more, including a tutorial of how to make your own.
I must’ve missed this one before. Dave Conroy has written a tutorial on turning your Pi into a wifi hotspot using the venerable Edimax EW-7811Un adapter dongle (which I reviewed here). Read the tutorial here.
