In a remarkable stroke of luck, I was able to see the moment when my blog tipped onto the 1,000,000th page view mark this morning at about 6.45am. I should add, very quickly, that I didn’t wait up all night for the moment 😉
The next post will be all about a competition to celebrate this!
Ben Nuttall has just tweeted that the Raspberry Pi website is now mobile-enabled and has a responsive design. Good job, Ben! 🙂 Visit raspberrypi.org
BOINC is a distributed computing architecture which takes a project, like interpreting data from the Large Hadron Collider, and allows you to contribute to it. You can put the resources of the Raspberry Pi towards these projects by running a BOINC client. Rob Zwetsloot of Linux User has written up a tutorial that will guide you through installing the necessary software. Read it here.
Dave Sharples and David Glanzman from the University of Pennsylvania have developed the Joytone – a musical instrument which uses a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, together with 57 thumb sticks. It’s an amazing project which I’ve covered before. Now Russell Barnes has conducted an interview with the pair and published it on his latest podcast. Again, if you haven’t been following the Raspi.today podcasts, you should definitely head on over there!
Ronniya Varghese, Valencia Dias, Sanjana Paryekar & Leroy Pereira from PCCE have developed a robotic arm, linked it up to a Raspberry Pi and written some Python which plays tic-tac-toe on a board against a human opponent. Take a look at the video – it’s a bit long-winded but it’s very impressive.
Ruby on Rails is very popular as a web development language. Sam Berson has written a comprehensive tutorial to get you started on installing it. Then it’s just a case of finding examples online to get you informed as to how to create projects using the language. Read the tutorial here.
