Rasim Muratovic has started a YouTube series on the creation of a Raspberry Pi B+ cluster. In this part, he’s taking care of the physical set-up and plugging the Pis into a router. Future parts will deal with installing Raspbian on…
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Review of the Gert 666 VGA adapter for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply are currently taking pre-orders for the VGA adapter board that they launched using a Kickstarter campaign. Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has got hold of an early one to have a play with and has blogged a quick video review…
Try out this alternate GUI environment on the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams has written a tutorial in which he downloads and compiles an alternate X-windows desktop environment called ‘matchbox-desktop’. It is a very minimal environment but works well with small touchscreens such as the PiTFT or the PiScreen. Read the…
Raspberry Pi Foundation seeks help at Bett 2015
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted on their blog about The Bett Show. They are looking for help to populate their stall with experts and educators. Here’s who they are looking for: We are looking for members of our…
Adventures with an iPad controlled Raspberry Pi robot
Richard Saville, aka the Average Man, got himself a robotics kit from Dawn Robotics, assembled it and downloaded a pre-built image. He now has a robot that he controls via an iPad, which he takes to Raspberry Jams. He’s written up…
Build your own mobile phone with the Raspberry Pi
Adafruit have published a new tutorial written by David Hunt who created the PiPhone, a Raspberry Pi-powered mobile, or cell, phone. It uses a lot of components, all available via Adafruit, but it’s a stunning piece of hacking. Read more…
Tetris on a Raspberry Pi using the PiLite
Here’s a bit of fun. Over at piecesofpi.co.uk, Stephen has created a Tetris implementation using a Python library that allows the use of a Ciseco PiLite as a display. Read more here – the code is available on GitHub. See…
Winners announced for New Zealand Raspberry Pi competition
Orion Health, an eHealth company in New Zealand, has announced the winners of their Codework competition. Codeworx challenges secondary school students to create a solution, using a Raspberry Pi, to “a real world problem” or that “could be useful in…
Arkansas students receive Raspberry Pi computers
Sixth-grade students at St. Boniface School, Fort Smith, Arkansas have just received gifts of Raspberry Pi computers in an effort to get them learning about computer programming and electronics. The school’s education partner KMF Metal Fabrication gave the gifts to the…
Birmingham Raspberry Jam takes off at KESH Academy
Spencer Organ and Jack Wearden have relaunched the Birmingham Raspberry Jam at KESH Academy. With 17 Raspberry Pis, they welcomed 45 attendees and had a whale of a time. Some more info and more pics are available on Spencer’s UK Tech Reviews…