Recently, a two day event called “Hack North Korea” was held in which teams came up with ways to distribute information in the notoriously difficult-to-crack North Korea. North Korea uses some particularly draconian measures when it comes to freedom of information…
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45 Raspberry Pi cluster mines Java code
Lee Martie and his team took 45 Raspberry Pis and clustered them together. They mine Java code repositories on GitHub and provide an interface to search the code online. You can use the searching tool here.
Raspberry Pi NFC-based achievement tracker for Jams
Well-known blogger, Pi enthusiast and all-round nice person Charlotte Godley has just started blogging over at Element 14 about a new project she wants to start. Called Pi Passport it uses an NFC-chipped card to allow people to check in…
Hear all about the Raspberry Pi in Education with Ben Nuttall
Ben Nuttall, member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education team, is currently on tour in the United States spreading the good news about the Pi and generally making a nuisance of himself (he says, ducking things being thrown at him from…
Control motors with your Raspberry Pi and this video tutorial
Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has done a new video! Always slickly produced and accessible, this one is an update to a previous video he did in which he controls a DC motor. He uses a RyanTeck Motor…
Motorised Raspberry Pi webcam with Ben Heck
Ben Heck, celebrity hacker, has taken a Pi, an Arduino and a servo and created a webcam which can be moved according to commands sent to it via a chat app. Watch his video below: Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Shop…
Linux User magazine launches new Raspberry Pi-focused digital mag
Linux User and Developer magazine has just announced the launch of a new digital magazine: RasPi. This is dedicated to the Pi and the first issue is out with 52 pages. The first issue covers the creation of a ‘drone’ –…
Line following robot does it’s work with the Raspberry Pi camera
17-year-old student Arne Baeyens has taken a Pi, a camera module and a controller board and built a line-follower robot. He took part in the RoboCup Junior competition in May with the robot and came third. He has done a,…
Live streaming the Raspberry Pi camera to a Windows PC
Brynlea Gibson has done a comprehensive video tutorial on getting video streaming working with a piece of software called gstreamer. It’s been a while since I’ve showcased a tutorial on this subject and some of them have become out-of-date, so…
Cleaning USB drives of nasties with the Raspberry Pi
The Foundation has covered the work of a bunch of investigative journalists and hackers who have been using the Raspberry Pi to help clean USB flash drives and extract data from them. Apparently it’s quite a problem in developing countries…