Harlow-based supplier SK Pang has just announced via Twitter that he’s stocking the Quick2Wire interface board kit (£11.90) and also the I2C port expander kit (£8.50). These are very reasonable prices for what are sure to be very popular, very usable boards. Snap them up now!
Quick2Wire Boards : SK Pang Electronics, Arduino, Sparkfun, GPS, GSM.
Home automation is part of our future, whether we like it or not. Here are a few examples of automation as it relates to the Raspberry Pi.
In this short video, Simon Maple and Andy Stanford-Clark show the new WebSphere Liberty Profile interfacing with Really Small Message Broker (RSMB) via an MQTT client (eclipse Paho). This results in MQ messages being sent to control devices 50 miles away on the Isle of Wight! Part of the set-up runs on a Raspberry Pi.
This was originally featured on dzone.com: Controlling a House 50 Miles Away With MQTT and Raspberry Pi | Server Zone.
Here’s another home automation video I found on YouTube:
Here’s another video where GPIO is used to control relays
These next two videos are another example of home automation. There is also a blog covering the project. They claim you can do it for under £30, which all RPi owners know is a bit of a fib as the Pi itself costs more than that to get it delivered. But, anyway…
Here’s a video about a project called PiHome. This has a website with supporting code and information.
Jon Skagmo has developed a transmitter for use in home automation projects called PiHAT.
And of course the now-classic combination of SiriProxy opening a garage door with the help of a Raspberry Pi.
I’ve started a new list widget on my blog for websites run on a Raspberry Pi. Only one site on there at the moment, so if you know of any sites, from blogs to weather stations, please let me know!
The new, assembled Gertboard is now available. Alex over at RasPi.tv has done a first-impressions review and, interestingly, a comparison between the v1 self-assembly and the new v2.
Nice little slice-of-life Q&A with Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton about he does his work.
I’m The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton And This Is How I Work | Lifehacker Australia.
US company Nwazet has released a whole slew of Raspberry Pi products including a $99 Raspberry Pi/OpenElec media center:
“The ‘Nwazet Pi Media Center’ is a tiny yet powerful media player, powered by a Raspberry Pi, running XBMC OpenElec. It ships as an easy to assemble kit and includes all the essentials out of the box. The kit can be secured on the back of a monitor with standard VESA 75 mounting holes.”
Nwazet – Nwazet Pi Media Center (Raspberry Pi included).
Have a browse round their site – plenty of accessories to choose from at fairly reasonable prices.
