Last year, Sam Nazarko renamed his media player operating system Raspbmc to OSMC. Since then, his team has grown and work has accelerated on the new version and he has now announced that the first stable release of the image has been…
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Remote twerking robot using a Raspberry Pi
Dan Aldred, who created the mighty Pi Glove has used an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board to pick up the infrared signals for his (pretty darned cool) robot and then used the Pi to re-transmit the signals according to his program or web…
Huddersfield Raspberry Jam – 8th August
There will be a Raspberry Jam at the Huddersfield Library (in the Sound and Vision Library part) on Saturday 8th August from 11am to 3pm. You can book free tickets from their website.
Raspberry Pi internet monitor boasts a biiiiiiig light tower
Instructables user talk2bruce has created a truly great tutorial. In it, he shows you how to build a highly visible internet monitor. The Raspberry Pi is used to ping a site on the internet and then, based on the response, switches the…
Raspberry Pi controlled BBQ for briskets!
Wired magazine have published an article about a group of Harvard engineering students who have built themselves a brisket smoker. The students embarked on the project as part of one of their engineering modules at the University and have come…
RasPi.TV does something different with mixed Mailbag video
Raspberry Pi vlogger and blogger Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has decided to try out something different. He’s taken 6 products that he’s been sent fairly recently and done a quick ‘mailbag’ video of them. This lets us, as viewers, see…
Social network monitor with Pygame on the Raspberry Pi
Richard “Average Man” Saville has built on Spencer Organ’s work on his PiTFT Internet Radio to create a “social network monitor”. He uses web-page scraping to get the data he needs (such as number of followers on Twitter, number of ‘likes’ on…
First person video with a Raspberry Pi attached to an RC TerraDrone
Beaneboper from Soldering Sunday has modified a remote-controlled Nerf TerraDrone so that his son can remotely control it and see what it is pointing at. He’s used the Pi Surveillance article from Makezine to set-up the camera part. Read more here.
Juplic – a music player for the Raspberry Pi
Dr Peter Kummel has developed Juplic which is a music player capable of being its own wi-fi hotspot or playing music from the Internet like a radio. The images are downloadable from his website.
Motion-triggered music player with a Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice Instructable tutorial from jenfoxbot. She uses an infra-red sensor that detects when the beam is broken and then plays music. The sensor is set-up across a doorway so that when someone comes through the door, omxplayer is triggered…