No disclaimer for this one – I bought it With a couple of Raspberry Pi Model B+s I, of course, needed a couple of cases. So, I ordered a couple and thought I’d provide my opinion on them. The first…
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Raspberry Pi Internet radio player
Spencer Organ has been experimenting with a PiTFT touch screen and programming a user interface with PyGame. He’s now documented the process he went through to create an Internet radio player and shared his code. You can read more about it…
The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo
Dominique Laloux and his team, together with some great funding from various sources, have created what the Raspberry Pi Foundation believes to be the first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo. For more on this great story, head over to…
Southend-on-Sea Raspberry Jam
On Saturday, I attended the Southend Raspberry Jam. It was great fun and it was nice to meet new people as well as bump into some familiar faces. The guys at Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group did a great job of organising…
Raspberry Pi’s Ben Nuttall’s road trip continues
Ben is currently working his way across the US stopping off at schools and hackspaces as he goes. One of his most recent stops was at St John Vianney High School. You can see him talking to a classroom of…
Raspberry Pi supercomputer tutorials
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a 9-node supercomputer with Raspberry Pis, and have documented their efforts in a series of repositories on GitHub. Read a bit more on the Popular Science website here and take a look a GitHub here.
Technology & Innovation Awards honours Raspberry Pi author
Teach Secondary have announced their Technology & Innovation Awards. “The brand new awards are specifically focused on technology and innovation in the classroom and recognise products and resources as well as teachers, authors and bloggers”. Amongst the winners was Carrie…
Interview with Dave Hunt – Raspberry Pi mobile phone
We previously covered Dave Hunt’s work on the PiPhone – the first mobile phone powered by a Raspberry Pi. Now, Linux User has tracked him down and Rob Zwetsloot has interviewed him. Read the interview here.
Kickstarter robot hits stretch goal, gets Raspberry Pi support
Edison is a tiny robot that runs an 8-bit Freescale processor and is currently being funded via a Kickstarter. It’s just hit the $50k stretch goal which means the software to program it will be supported on the Raspberry Pi. Looks…
PiKISS makes installing software on the Raspberry Pi easy
Jose Cerrejon contacted me to tell me about his project, PiKISS. PiKISS is a “bunch of scripts” with a menu system designed to make life easier when setting up your Pi. It’s downloadable from GitHub and looks like a very user-friendly…