As reported on Twitter earlier this week, this month’s Wired has a cover feature on ‘How Raspberry Pi Conquered the World’
Breaking through China’s great firewall with the #RaspberryPi
A Chinese resident, posting on Redditor, has worked out a clever way of getting past the Chinese state firewall. By using the Raspberry Pi to connect to a foreign VPN and then sharing the internet connection, it means they are now always able to get past the state censorship. Read more on The Register
How long they’re able to do this for in the future is quite another matter!
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew
Read about this great project over at MadSci. View a video of it in action.
Interview with Alan O’Donohoe (Mr Raspberry Jam)
Neil Brown, from the University of Kent, has interviewed Alan O’Donohoe, Raspberry Jam co-ordinator. This makes for great reading, especially for those interested in running Jams or helping to run them. Read the interview here
Prosthetic robotic knee run by #RaspberryPi
Elliott Rouse has been doing postdoctoral research on robotic locomotion and has helped to develop a “Clutchable Series-Elastic Actuator” prosthetic knee with a Raspberry Pi doing all the computational grunt work. Very impressive stuff.
UPS for the #RaspberryPi
PiModules has come up with a new add-on board for the Pi – the Uninterruptable Power Intelligent Supply (UPiS). From their information:
The UPiS Module is an advanced powering module that powers your Raspberry PI with Uninterrupted Power intelligent Supply. It is equipped with LIPO battery 1200/2600 mAh as also with buck/boost switching power converter. There is no need for any additional cabling, as a smart measure system is continuously checking powering voltage and consumed current, and when the cable power is absent, automatically switches to the battery source.
During battery powering process it is still automatically checking power consumption and when cable power is available again, it switches off automatically the battery source
Okay, slightly odd use of the English language (they might even be a Greek company, which would explain it) but it sounds like an interesting board. Price has yet to be set and launch of the product has been stated to be mid-June, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
