LynxLine Labs has ported Inferno OS to the Raspberry Pi. The operating system, which was developed in 1996 by Bell Labs, was supposed to be similar to Java – a cross-platform VM environment. If you want the full story of…
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Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book published
Here’s a new publication from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Rather than print digital-only issues 31-35 individually, they have taken the ‘best bits’ from those issues and mashed them together to create the Projects Book. It has 200 pages and costs…
Minibian updated to Jessie for the Raspberry Pi
Luca Soltoggio maintains the Minibian OS – it is a cut-down version of the Raspbian operating system which gets rid of a lot of the stuff that hobbyists don’t often use. He has just announced that Minibian has now been updated to Jessie. If…
SD card shoot-out – what’s best for the Raspberry Pi?
Matt Hawkins from Raspberry Pi Spy has done a comparison and benchmarking of 5 different microSD cards, including the official NOOBS one from the Swag store. He’s published his results and you can view them here.
Build your own scrolling LED wall with a Raspberry Pi & Cotswold Raspberry Jam this weekend
Andrew Oakley, from the Cotswold Raspberry Jam, has written an excellent tutorial in which he describes how to create a large, scrolling LED wall, controlled from a Raspberry Pi. He takes you through all aspects of the construction and powering…
New armour-plated robotic car kit from Pi Borg
Pi Borg, the Cambridgeshire-based robotics specialist, who made such a splash with their Diddyborg, have just released details of a new kit. This kit, costing £99, comes complete with a foldable metal chassis, add-on boards and all the fixings you…
HAT storage boxes for Raspberry Pi accessories
James Mitchell, who runs Raspberry Jam Berlin, recently decided that he wanted to protect and store his HATs. I can sympathise! I’ve got so many of the things and no handy storage solution. He has created some templates that you can print…
Apologies for lack of bloggage
Hi everyone. My apologies for the lack of blogging action over the past week. I’ve been performing in a musical called Parade at Sharnbrook Mill Theatre (that’s me, first on the left in my guise as Hugh Dorsey, lead prosecutor in…
Drive a 7-segment display from a Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames has written a great blog post in which he wires up and uses a 7-segment display using the Raspberry Pi. The display, which is of the common cathode type, has 4 digits and Alex shows you how to…
CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics – Launches today for the Raspberry Pi
Tim Richardson, Jamie Mann (of The Pi Hut) and myself are very proud to announce the official launch of CamJam EduKit number 3. This one is all about Robotics and provides (almost) everything you need to build your own Raspberry…