I was sent one of these hubs by the manufacturer, Etekcity. What do you get? It is a 10-port USB 3.0 hub with an extra USB port that runs at 2.1A. The main part of the hub, on top, features…
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Create your Raspberry Pi SD card images ahead of time with Pi Kitchen
Meltwater has just published information on Pi Kitchen, which is a way to pre-create your SD card images. You create ‘recipes’ which inject various settings and scripts into your SD card image when it boots up… at least I think that’s…
Raspberry Pi controlled Christmas tree light show
Instructables user Osprey22 has written a piece of Python which acts as a sequencer based on an imported MP3 file to drive sets of Christmas tree lights. He’s written the whole thing up as a tutorial, so head on over…
New issue of The MagPi magazine for Raspberry Pi owners
Issue 28 of The MagPi is out. This issue covers: OpenCV A review of the Arduberry from Dexter Industries. More on the Bitscope. A tutorial on setting up an Asterix VoIP server. A second tutorial on using Git. Building an…
DIY Raspberry Pi GPIO LEDs and switches board
A blogger at PiecesOfPi.co.uk decided that he (or, indeed, she) wanted to build a GPIO board for themselves. So, they’ve taken a piece of stripboard, some LEDs and a few switches and done just that. He’s posted all the diagrams so you…
Create a time lapse in Python with the Raspberry Pi
Normally if you want to do a timelapse with the Pi camera, you just use the raspistill command with the -tl parameter. However, Richard (aka the Average Man) wanted to do it programmatically so he could update an LCD screen…
Interview with BulletPi creator Andrew Robinson
Linux User & Developer have published their interview online with Andrew Robinson, who created a bullet-time rig by chaining together 48 Raspberry Pis and camera modules. Read it here.
Google Glass-alike with a Raspberry Pi
Nur has taken a Raspberry Pi, some sunglasses frames, a few LCD components and a mobile hotspot and created a Google Glass clone. There’s not much detail of the project over at Make but it’s interesting to note someone’s done…
Interview with Raspberry Pi (Pi-Top) laptop creators
Russell Barnes has done a great interview with the creators of the Pi Top, the Raspberry Pi laptop that you put together yourself. He interviews Ryan Dunwoody and Jesse Lozano and goes into the process behind developing and marketing the product,…
Fox hunting with a Raspberry Pi
“KM4EFP” has written up his project in which he has created a portable ‘foxbox’ – a fox hunt transmitter. These transmitters are hidden so that radio enthusiasts can track them down using direction-finding techniques. You can read more about the…