Games, Programming

PocketMine for #RaspberryPi

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PocketMine-MP for Mobile [Android / Raspberry Pi] PHP pre-compiled binaries - Minecraft Forum

Pre-compiled binaries for PocketMine are available for the Raspberry Pi. PocketMine is essentially a Minecraft Pocket Edition server. Just like Minecraft, it has an API you can use. More information on PocketMine.

Here are the instructions from the Minecraft forum:

  1. Use a newish version of Raspbian – one with the Hard Float stuff enabled.
  2. Grab the stable or development release of PocketMine-MP from http://www.pocketmine.net/
  3. Place the download in a folder. Run the Linux installer with the -u parameter to make sure PHP doesn’t get compiled.
  4. Download the latest PHP_5.x.x_Raspbian_hard.tar from Sourceforge.
  5. Extract the file into the folder where PocketMine-MP is located. The bin/ folder should be where PocketMine-MP.php is.
  6. At the command line, do: chmod 0755 bin/php
  7. Run ./start.sh in that folder and the server should start

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Internet of things, Photography

Google’s Global IT Challenge awards £500,000 to #RaspberryPi Rhino project

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Google gives £500,000 to project using camera traps to help save Rhinos - Gadgets & Tech - Life & Style - The Independent

The “people’s choice” award of the Global IT Challenge, which aims to award innovative uses of technology that “tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges”, has been awarded to the Zoological Society of London. The £500,000 prize will go a long way to funding the project which aims to curb the illegal poaching of rhinos in Kenya.

The project will deploy a series of ‘camera traps’ in the Tsavo National Park to capture images of poachers and listen out for gunshots. The traps will transmit their findings to park rangers who will be able to respond quickly.

The camera traps are powered by Raspberry Pis.