Here’s a very interesting interview with Eben in which he discusses the development of the Raspberry Pi 2. It’s from Issue 14 of Linux Voice, which is relatively recent, so it’s definitely worth reading. There’s plenty of other stuff in there,…
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Custom-built word processing box powered by Raspberry Pi
Portland-based Giando Sigurani has created a portable word processing system from a Raspberry Pi 2 and a few other bits including a full-size keyboard and track pad, SD card reader and exposed USB port. The whole thing has been built…
Dual Raspberry Pi camera streaming to an Oculus Rift with the Compute Module
Torkel Danielsson has paired the Compute Module using two cameras with a PC and, with a friend, has developed a way of streaming the stereo images to an Oculus Rift 2. Not much detail on how, but it’s very cool…
Install Lazarus Pascal on a Raspberry Pi
Lazarus Pascal is a free Delphi look-a-like and compatible Pascal development environment based on FPC (Free Pascal Compiler). Hans Luijten from Tweaking4All.com has written a comprehensive tutorial on installing Lazarus on the Pi 2. He also includes instructions for installing it on other Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi “action camera” inside a 3D case
Connor Yamada has done a nice write-up of his project to create an ‘action camera’ with his Raspberry Pi and Camera Module. The results are mixed, to say the least, but it does show what is possible with a bit…
TrafficHAT from RyanTeck for the Raspberry Pi – review
The TrafficHAT from RyanTeck is a simple-to-use add-on board for later models of the Raspberry Pi. It plugs into the 40-pin GPIO header and gives you access to 3 large LEDs, a button and a buzzer. It sounds simple, and…
Learn about Big Data with Hadoop on the Raspberry Pi
Carsten Mönning over at the SAP Community Network has written the start of an intriguing series of blog posts on creating a Hadoop cluster with several Raspberry Pi 2s. This initial post just covers setting up Hadoop on a single…
Driving NeoPixels from Docker on the Raspberry Pi
The guys over at Hypriot have been using Docker a lot. In this instance, they use Node.JS to drive a set of NeoPixels from the Pi. In the example, they use the Pi’s 5V power supply to provide the power…
Use an external drive to drive your Raspberry Pi
Over at Adafruit, Brennen Bearnes has written a great tutorial and helper script that will enable you to use an external drive as a “root partition”. This means that although your Pi still boots from the SD card, thereafter everything else…
LEGO / Raspberry Pi rover
Xian has done a great job on this LEGO rover. It utilises Lego Power Functions and the Raspberry Pi and can be controlled via a web browser. He explains his build, with block diagrams and details on wiring and explains his use…