Andy Proctor has just announced that tickets are on sale for the next Ipswich Raspberry Jam. This one will take place on 27th February from 10am-4pm at the UCS Waterfront Building. If you’re in the area, it’ll be well worth checking…
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Stafford Raspberry Jam – Wednesday 10th February
Cerys (@RPi_Stuff) is running a Raspberry Jam in Stafford on Wednesday 10th February. The event will run from 6-8.30pm at King Edward VI High School on West Way. The plan is to have people bring their own equipment along, have some…
Use bar graph displays with the Raspberry Pi
Average Man has written a great tutorial on using these tiny bar graph displays with the Pi. There’s a lot of wiring involved, and a lot of maths, but he takes you through it. He’s also written some code to…
RasPiO Pro Hat – new reward level launched for Raspberry Pi add-on board
Alex Eames has just announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter and I just thought I’d bring it to your attention. In case you missed it, the Pro Hat is a great new plug-in board for the…
The Pi Podcast covers RetroPie operating system for the Raspberry Pi
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…