The boys from the Pi Podcast team continue their streak of excellent broadcasts with their new episode. This time, in addition to a news round-up, they cover RetroPie which is an operating system focusing on retro gaming. Listen to the podcast here.
Control an X-wing in Minecraft using the Raspberry Pi and Skywriter HAT
Scott Turner has combined a couple of other tutorials to enable you to program a gesture interface that will control a model of an X-wing in Minecraft. He builds upon the work done by Martin O’Hanlon and others and adds the Skywriter HAT into the mix. Read how to do it here.
Building a massive cricket scoreboard on a shoestring budget with a Raspberry Pi
A bunch of amateur hackers from Gloucestershire have created a digital scoreboard for their cricket club using a Raspberry Pi. The Pi acts as the master controller for an Arduino which controls the 7-segment displays. The interface is then accessed via a tablet or laptop and the scores updated remotely. It’s a lovely project, especially considering the group didn’t have any electronics knowledge or experience and they had to rely on tutorials and resources on the Internet to put it together. You can read lots more, including how to do it yourself, on their blog.
Optimise and stabilise the file system of your Raspberry Pi’s SD card
Here’s an interesting blog/tutorial. “Mike” takes you through several steps you can take to optimise and firm-up your solid-state file system, in our case the SD card of the Raspberry Pi. It should guard against SD card corruption as much as possible, but it may also affect performance as it uses the RAM of your Raspberry Pi more. Read the blog post here.
Bringing the feel of the Amiga 1200 to the Raspberry Pi
Matteo Trevisan has customised the Raspbian operating system to look as close as possible to the AMIGA 1200. You can download the OS image from his site or read more here.
The Pi Hut Raspberry Pi starter kit is on sale!
Just spotted this on The Pi Hut‘s newsletter (which you can sign up for by filling in the mini-form at the bottom of every page on their site).
Right at this moment, their Pi Starter Kit (pictured above) is on sale at 20% off for the bargain price of £40 (£10 off!) In the kit, you get the following:
- Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
- 8GB Sandisk Ultra Class 10 MicroSD (pre-imaged with NOOBS)
- ThePiHut 5V 2A Power Supply (UK, EU or USA)
- Black Case
- HDMI cable
- Ethernet Cable
This really is excellent value. Thoroughly recommended. Visit The Pi Hut’s Starter Kit page here.