Jonathan has written an Instructable tutorial to create a portable Raspberry Pi. It uses one of the popular car reversing screens and a 3D printed case. Read it here.
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Check your stock values on the Raspberry Pi command line
Blake wanted to track his investments from the command line. He’s compiled a package called ‘Go’ that uses the Yahoo YQL API to pull stock data from the internet. He has then written a tutorial to show you how to…
Raspberry Pi-powered Geeks Club in Nigeria
CcHub Nigeria will be launching a secondary school after-schools club known as “Geeks Club” on 11th March. 150 students selected from Lagos state will take part in the club which will use the Raspberry Pi to teach Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python.…
Raspberry Pi on CBBC Technobabble
Children’s technology show CBBC Technobabble went to Pi Towers recently. Reporter Frankie Vu interviewed the Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin in which she introduced the Pi and lots of cool stuff you can do with it, like build a weather station or…
Microscopy with the Raspberry Pi
The leader of the Purbeck STEM club took an Intel QX3 microscope toy and retro fitted it with a Raspberry Pi camera module. This required removing the lens from the module and then attaching it to the eye-piece of the QX3.…
Install WordPress and NGINX on Raspberry Pi
Russ Sanderlin has written a comprehensive tutorial for getting a PHP/NGINX stack working with WordPress on the Pi. Read it here. Apparently NGINX works better than Apache, particularly under high loads (although I’ve never had a problem with Apache) and is…
Ubuntu MATE 15.04 for the Raspberry Pi
Rohith Madhavan has been working on bringing Ubuntu MATE to the Raspberry Pi 2. He’s created an image for it. Although it’s not perfect (sound doesn’t work, choppy video) this is great news as it opens up more possibilities for…
RasPi.TV speaks to founding trustee Pete Lomas
Pete Lomas designed the original Raspberry Pi model B and A circuit boards and is a lovely chap. He gave a great talk at the Big Birthday Weekend and Alex Eames was lucky enough to get to speak to him…
The story of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend
A little belated, but I’ve been so busy this week! Some of the photos were taken from this post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site – I think Ben Nuttall took them! The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend seems to…
Neopixel LED temperature gauge with Raspberry Pi
Ismail Uddin of scienceexposure.com has written an in-depth tutorial in which he uses a thermistor to track temperature changes and a Neopixel ring to display a temperature gauge. It uses various libraries and work already out there and contains instructions as…