Russell Barnes has interviewed Tom Murray, inventor of the SmartiPi case which is a LEGO-compatible Raspberry Pi case. I previously covered the case here and am a backer. You can view the Kickstarter project here. Listen to Russell’s interview over on RasPi.today.
CNBC comes to Cambridge to talk about the Raspberry Pi and CamJam
On the 6th of September, we held a Raspberry Jam in Cambridge, UK. During that day, a news crew from CNBC attended and conducted a lot of interviews and shot footage of the activities taking place. On the previous day, they visited Raspberry Pi headquarters (affectionately known as Pi Towers), filmed the work going on there and interviewed Eben Upton. All that footage was cut together and has now been broadcast. You can see the broadcast below or visit CNBC.
They also put together a supplementary video with additional footage of the Jam and you can see that here or on CNBC:
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s James Adams
Matt Richardson from Make talked to James Adams (the Foundation’s Director of Hardware) at MakerCon in New York recently about the Compute Module, HATs, the B+ and how the Slice is going. The video of the interview is below.
Raspberry Pi facial recognition treasure safe
Tony DiCola from Adafruit and David Scheltma from Make have written a comprehensive tutorial on creating a safe which will open when it recognises your face. You can read all about it over on the Make site.
HDMIPi team to launch 10″ IPS screen
The makers of the HDMIPi screen (which is now in the process of being despatched to Kickstarter backers) are in the early stages of developing a portable 10″ IPS screen for general sale. IPS is a very high-quality, though more expensive screen, that gives a wide viewing angle and high-definition display. The IPS screens were developed as part of a UNICEF project to get the Pi into developing countries like Lebanon. It’s now just a question of developing it into a retail product and that should be happening in coming months. The new screen will use the same HDMIPi driver board, giving the package the following benefits:
- 2 HDMI ports (switchable source while using)
- Connect any HDMI device up to HDMI 1.4
- Pi power port (1A USB power port)
- 12V power port
- 5.2V power port
- 3.5mm audio jack breaking out high quality HDMI sound
- Lovely clear user guide written in proper English
- Point for a VGA connector if desired.
As a backer of the HDMIPi, I think this is great news and shows that the team isn’t sitting on their laurels and is interested in developing future products. The UNICEF screen, which I’ve seen at recent CamJams, is a nice package, so something similar would likely go down well.
Display images on a Raspberry Pi from the command line
Matt Hawkins has done a brief tutorial on using the software package ‘fim’ to display images on the command line. He’s also included a nifty example of converting your image to ASCII art! Read it here.