Thanks to RasPi.Today for spotting this one Although the Raspberry Pi Foundation has covered this topic here, George Wang has created a video with what is arguably a better way of doing the same job of focusing the lens on…
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Emulate rare and retro operating systems on the Raspberry Pi
Apologies for the lack of updates over the past few days, I’ve been on a holiday from blogging but I’m back now! Make has done a nice round-up of retro and rare OSs that you can run on the Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi powered Hexapod – the HexPi
Someone over at Mikronauts has taken a Pi, a hexapod chassis and 18 servos and put together a Pi-controlled hexapod robot. It’s a great project, that probably cost quite a bit, but it looks fantastic.
4tronix gives an update on their Raspberry Pi robotics kit
Online retailer 4tronix has been working on a robotics kit for some months now and they’ve just provided an extensive update as to their progress. They’ve recently been featured on RasPi.Today and now Gareth has published a blog post telling us…
Assembly guide for the Pi Supply on/off switch for the Raspberry Pi
The Average Man has done a great assembly and set-up guide for the Pi Supply power on/off switch. You can read the guide here and you can purchase the on/off switch here.
August issue of The MagPi is out for Raspberry Pi owners
Issue 26 of The MagPi is now out. Features include: Introduction to the model B+. Robotics articles. Persistence-of-vision magic wand project. VoIP server. Beer brewing. Using BitScope. Programming with FuzeBASIC. You can read and download the issue here.
Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi Model B+
On Thursday I attended an Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which he talks about the Pi, the Compute Module and also introduces the model B+. He also fields questions from the audience. Element…
Script to create a wireless hotspot on a Raspberry Pi
Simon Walters has written a nice script which automagically turns your Pi into a wireless hotspot. It only works with 8188CUS-based adapters at the moment, but it’s a great starting point if you want to be able to connect to your…
New version of Mathematica available for the Raspberry Pi
Arnoud Buzing of Wolfram has just written a guest post on the Foundation’s blog about a new version of Mathematica that has just become available for the Pi. This is version 10 and it contains over 700 new functions and…
Interview with Pete Lomas, co-founder and trustee at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Recently at the Better Embedded conference in Florence, Open Electronics ran into Pete Lomas and decided to ask him some questions about the development of the Pi and it’s evolution into the Compute Module and model B+. It’s not often…