Blinkies, Geeky Techiness, Photography, Software

Nixie Tube tweet photographer using a Raspberry Pi

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Robin Bussell has created a Nixie Tube clock that listens out for a Twitter hashtag (#NixieBotShowMe) and then displays the tweet text on the tubes. It then uses a Raspberry Pi to take photographs of the message, bundle them up into an animated gif if necessary and tweets it back at you. As you can see above, it doesn’t quite handle long messages, but it’s still pretty cool! You can read more about the project over at Hackaday.io.

Events, Raspberry Jams

Cambridge Raspberry Jam – this Saturday – programme & streaming details

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We’ve got a CamJam this Saturday at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. A few tickets are still available from Eventbrite. We’ll have our usual mixture of talks, show-and-tell, marketplace and (sold out) workshops. If you’d like to see what talks there will be, head over to the CamJam website to download the programme. If you can’t make the Jam on the day, you can (hopefully) view a live stream of the talks here and we’ll likely be recording them for our YouTube channel.

Magazines

Future Publishing launches new Pi User magazine for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts

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Future Publishing (publishers of Linux Format magazine) have launched a new title aimed at Raspberry Pi owners. Called Pi User, it is a somewhat slimmer volume than the venerable MagPi and is more expensive, at £7.99. However, Future are well known for producing quality publications so it might just be worth it to get an alternate look at the Pi world. You can view a sample issue here and buy it online here. It will likely be available in newsagents as well, so keep an eye out!

Opinion, PiPod Podcast

PiPod Podcast – a quick update

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Raspberry PiPod Podcast

Hi all,

The PiPod podcast will be back, and it’ll be back soon. I’ve been rather busy of late preparing for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on 3rd December and just haven’t had time to get to the podcast. Work’s been rather manic, too, and I’ve recently (successfully) auditioned for a new musical called Cloud over at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre in Bedfordshire. It’s all been a bit hectic!

Expect the next edition of the podcast sometime in the next 10 days!

Mike

Operating systems, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Software

Raspbian updated to disable SSH by default on the Raspberry Pi

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Simon Long has just announced an update to Raspbian in which SSH will be disabled by default. For most people, this relatively minor change won’t cause any problem – you can use your Pi just as you did before. However, for those of you who use ‘headless’ Pis (i.e. without a keyboard and screen), this changes things. You will not be able to remotely connect to your Pi with SSH unless you enable it first. You can do this is two ways:

  • Use the raspi-config GUI (or command line version) to turn it on from the interfaces tab.
  • put a file called ssh in the /boot directory (accessible via Windows, for example – it’s the partition you can see natively). It can be empty.

This is all to do with keeping your Raspberry Pi more secure. It’s sure to annoy some people though, as these things do. Read more here.