Micro Elastix – open source unified communications on the #RaspberryPi

Elastix is an Open Source Sofware to establish Unified Communications. Elastix goal is to incorporate all the communication alternatives, available at an enterprise level, into a unique solution.

Micro Elastix

Details for downloading and installing are available here and an overview of the concept and the software is available here.

Update: apparently this product isn’t very well supported and the latest version doesn’t work on the Pi at all 🙁

Concerto – open source digital signage project runs on the #RaspberryPi

Home - Concerto Digital Signage ProjectA digital signage application has been shown to work on the Raspberry Pi. Paul Stone has released a couple of videos that show it in action.

The  Concerto Digital Signage Project is online here. The source links are at the bottom of the page and it’s not necessarily easy to find a simple ‘how to’, but I daresay someone will write one soon.

Thanks to Grant for spotting this!

Tiberius – a moon rover using dual Raspberry Pis / @Raspberry_Pi

A group of 4th Year MEng students from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have created a remote-controlled rugged 4-wheel drive “moon buggy” using two Raspberry Pis at it’s core. The students, Calum Morrison, Neil Comerford and Joshua Walhane have recorded this video (see below) which shows the rover, named “Tiberius”, driving around their campus, both inside and out. It shows the capabilities of the rover including traversing some railways ties and climbing a steep slope as well as the operation of a robot arm. Onboard sensors and a webcam feed back telemetry to an Android-device app which is also used as the remote control. Really worth a look this one!