On Saturday, I attended the Southend Raspberry Jam. It was great fun and it was nice to meet new people as well as bump into some familiar faces. The guys at Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group did a great job of organising…
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Raspberry Pi supercomputer tutorials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a 9-node supercomputer with Raspberry Pis, and have documented their efforts in a series of repositories on GitHub. Read a bit more on the Popular Science website here and take a look a GitHub here.
Design a printed circuit board using DesignSpark PCB
The Average Man has done a great guide on using DesignSpark PCB to design a printed circuit board. It’s a full tutorial with screenshots and shows you how to design a simple board with one LED on it. It may be…
Breaking the North Korean wall with the Raspberry Pi
Recently, a two day event called “Hack North Korea” was held in which teams came up with ways to distribute information in the notoriously difficult-to-crack North Korea. North Korea uses some particularly draconian measures when it comes to freedom of information…
45 Raspberry Pi cluster mines Java code
Lee Martie and his team took 45 Raspberry Pis and clustered them together. They mine Java code repositories on GitHub and provide an interface to search the code online. You can use the searching tool here.
Raspberry Pi NFC-based achievement tracker for Jams
Well-known blogger, Pi enthusiast and all-round nice person Charlotte Godley has just started blogging over at Element 14 about a new project she wants to start. Called Pi Passport it uses an NFC-chipped card to allow people to check in…
Cleaning USB drives of nasties with the Raspberry Pi
The Foundation has covered the work of a bunch of investigative journalists and hackers who have been using the Raspberry Pi to help clean USB flash drives and extract data from them. Apparently it’s quite a problem in developing countries…
Car diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi and PiTFT
Paul Bartek has done an extensive tutorial on using the PiTFT to display data from a car’s OBD-11 port and also a video which you can see below.
Evolution of the Raspberry Pi with James Adams
Russell Barnes has done a great interview with James Adams, the Foundation’s head of hardware, over on RasPi.Today. It’s well worth a read if you’re interested in how the Compute Module and the B+ came about and some of the…
Caller ID using a Raspberry Pi
Andy & Chris at AndyPi have worked out a way to use an old modem and an LCD screen to display caller ID. Have a read how they did it by downloading the PDF on their blog page.