Indonesian programmer Yohanes Nugroho has taken his cue from LeapFrog and created an educational toy for his son. He’s used a Raspberry Pi and a pack of RFID cards to teach the alphabet.
Great Python flashcards for #RaspberryPi programmers starting out
David Whale has created these great little flash cards for Python programming. He gave them out at a recent Raspberry Jam and has now blogged about them so you can download them yourself. Great if, like me, you occasionally need some quick reference pointers! Read and download them here
Ninja-IDE on the #RaspberryPi
Craig Richardson has documented how to install the Ninja IDE development environment on the Raspberry Pi. Should be of interest to those who like developing in Python but prefer to work in an environment that provides assistance. Read more here
Debunking the #RaspberryPi power supply myths
Daniel Bull, creator of the excellent BerryIO GPIO web interface, has been doing some research on power supply requirements for the Pi and has written a great blog post on what the Pi really needs to work. Read the post and resulting discussion here
Using Java and XBee on the #RaspberryPi
Andrew Rapp has been working with Java and sorting out how to integrate it with an XBee. Read more here
New operating system: arkOS for the #RaspberryPi
Based on Arch, arkOS is an operating system I’ve only just noticed. It sounds very promising for those who want to use their Pi as a home server. Here’s what the developers say about arkOS:
arkOS is a system for securely self-hosting your online life from the comfort of your home. It allows you to easily host your own website, email, “cloud” and more, all within arm’s reach. It does this by interfacing with existing software and allowing the user to easily update and change settings with a graphical interface. No more need to depend on external cloud services, which can be insecure “walled gardens” that require you to give up control over your data.
arkOS will have several different components that come together to make a seamless self-hosting experience possible on your Raspberry Pi. Each of these components will work with each other out-of-the-box, allowing you to host your websites, email, social networking accounts, cloud services, and many other things from your arkOS node.
Read more here and download the image
I think we’d probably be more comfortable if it was based on Raspbian, but Arch is well-respected and the feature set of the OS is extremely promising.