Spanish company mOway Education have released a Raspberry Pi version of their software which works with Scratch. The mOway robot itself is a two-wheeled sensor-loaded car and communication is handled using RF with a dongle plugged into the Pi. This…
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Fantasy fiction project uses #RaspberryPi to distribute story portions
Taken from TechRadar.com: Piggybacking on weirdly named and unsecured wireless networks is one of the joys of city living. But if you try to siphon off some Wi-Fi while walking around Bristol in the next few days, you might find…
Cassandra 1,000,000 inserts/sec on #RaspberryPi
Big Data database engine Cassandra has been benchmarked at 1 million inserts per second on the Raspberry Pi. This can be seen in the video below. Of course, this isn’t a full-fledged benchmark as only one insert is being done…
The #RaspberryPi in scientific research
Fascinating article over at the Foundation about how the Raspberry Pi is being used for various pieces of scientific research. Read the article here
GRASS on the #RaspberryPi
GRASS GIS is a Geographic Information System used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/map production, spatial modeling, and visualization. They now have a Raspberry Pi version.
How Raspbian was built for the #RaspberryPi
I came across this nice little article about the creation of Raspbian, the OS of choice for the Raspberry Pi. Very interesting read, particularly the part about how Raspbian was compiled for the Pi without having any Pis to use. Read more…
First demo of motor control for #RaspberryPi camera platform / @Raspberry_Pi
I decided this morning to shoot a video of my progress so far on the SpacePi, which is intended to be a motorised platform for taking astronomical photographs using the Raspberry Pi with the official camera module. Here are the…
Home automation software Freedomotic now available for the #RaspberryPi
From the Freedomotic website: Freedomotic is an open, flexible, scalable and mashups oriented software that can interact with well known standard building automation protocols as long as with “do it yourself” solutions. It treats the web, social networks and frontends…
Mobile Display for the #RaspberryPi and understanding X windows
Jeff Skinner has blogged about all things X! He’s also described all the terminology you might want to know to understand what X is and how it works. He has been experimenting with using the Raspberry Pi as an X…
#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD…