Ian Renton’s blog about building a Raspberry Pi-powered tank never ceases to amaze me. This time, it’s Raspberry Tank Day 25: The Beginnings of Autonomy. His tank takes on a cupboard and… well, you’ll have to read his blog to find out. 🙂
Here’s a video of Ian testing the tank. Visit his blog to see Cupboard vs Tank.
Over on the Mcpipy blog, there is confirmation that you can connect together Minecraft for Raspberry Pi and Minecraft Pocket Edition as long as they’re on the same LAN. There are instructions on how to do this (they are very simple) and pics of it in action.
It’s still a pity that you can’t connect to mainstream servers, but it’s nice to be able to do this, even if it is only on your local network.
Another excellent post from Carl Hughes. This time he takes readings from an ultrasonic range finder connected to his Raspberry Pi using Java. Read his article here
C Theroux has done an excellent guide to installing the bluetooth stack on the Pi, then pairing with a device and setting it as trusted.
There are a few guides out there, including my own, but this is the first one I’ve seen that is clear, simple and does it all from the command line
This project has resulted in a Raspberry Pi with a 4-line LCD screen, a battery pack, indicator LEDs and control buttons so that a headless Pi can be monitored and controlled without any other input device.
It’s rather neat and the article gives you details on how it was done and all the (many) parts required, including costings. It does rely on Arch Linux, rather than Raspbian, but I daresay some enterprising soul can test it out on the more popular OS.
Afkham Azeez has built a Raspberry Pi Cluster with more than a dozen Pis.
The really clever part is that he constructed a custom power board with switches and USB ports to control power to each Pi separately. There is also a web interface which allows you to track the status of the Pis and, importantly, to work out which Pi is which!
