Hayden James has done a great article on the various overclocking options available on the Pi 2. There are plenty of examples of configurations if you want that extra speed. Read more here.
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Raspberry Pi housing with an integrated screen and keyboard – the PiKasa
I was contacted by South Africa-based Ian Harrison who, together with his team, is doing a crowdfunding campaign to fund the PiKasa. The PiKasa is a housing for the Raspberry Pi with an integrated 800×480 screen, a splash-proof keyboard, a 5-port…
Performance testing the Raspberry Pi 2 as an Internet of Things device
Henryk Konsek and Arek Jurasz wanted to see how fast the Raspberry Pi 2 was when it acted as part of the toolchain of an Internet of Things set-up using Camel and MQTT messages. I’ll let them explain: We decided to create…
Coffee predictions with the Raspberry Pi and Python
Paul Weeks is pretty much obsessed with coffee. He decided that his local coffee shop could use face recognition technology and the FitBit API to work out a) what someone’s favourite coffee was and b) how strong it should be…
Slice media player powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module starts shipping
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were…
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – 25th April
The next Covent Garden Raspberry Jam will take place on Saturday, 25th April at the Dragon Hall Trust, 17 Stukeley Street WC2B 5LT, from 2-5pm. There will be two workshops: one on Minecraft Pi, the other on Sonic Pi as well…
Raspberry Jamboree 2015 – NEXT WEEK!
This year’s Raspberry Jamboree is next week at Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Preston, PR2 3SQ. It is a three-day event in which people of all ages and all levels of experience come together and celebrate all things Pi. Friday (during the day) –…
Simple code and diagram to control PWM on the Raspberry Pi
Over on his blog, Eric is doing a great line in simple examples for controlling the GPIO pins of the Pi. This time, he covers PWM on the Pi by giving an example of an LED which changes brightness depending…
Simple read/write of the Raspberry Pi GPIO
A blogger called Eric has written up a simple piece of code, and an accompanying Fritzing circuit diagram, of how to read a switch input and turn an LED on and off. It’s a simple example, but does show you…
GCHQ unveils largest Raspberry Pi cluster
At The Big Bang Fair in Birmingham today, GCHQ unveiled what they’ve called the largest Raspberry Pi cluster ever. Nicknamed the OctaPi, the cluster sports 66 Raspberry Pis all networked together to form one supercomputer. You can read more over…