Gary Sims over at MakeTechEasier has written a brief tutorial about installing ‘mono’ and programming in C# on the Pi and compiling programs so that they can be used on both the Pi and on Windows. He also covers installing the…
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Home Energy Centre using a #RaspberryPi and Nook Simple Touch
Raspberry Pi Foundation forum user Gaz99 has developed a Home Energy Centre which uses a Pi to collect Solar PV data and Solar Thermal (hot water) information along with the weather and turn this into an easy to understand display that is…
#RaspberryPi Pi in the Sky becomes a proper board
Dave Akerman has worked with Anthony Stirk to create a new GPIO board for the Pi to facilitate high altitude ballooning launches. Called Pi in the Sky, the board comes with the following features: Efficient built-in power regulator providing run…
Seven Segments of Pi at the BBC
Guest post from Nevil Hunt of Innovations in Education I have been invited to the BBC/Google “Computing for a new Generation” Conference at Media City on the 2nd July where I will be demonstrating… A – Seven Segments of Pi…
New podcast for the #RaspberryPi launched
Russell Barnes, previously editor of Linux User and Developer magazine and now working freelance, has just launched RasPi.today – a website hosting his podcasts. He’s released three short podcasts so far with (I hope) many more to follow. You can listen…
Weather station with the #PiTFT
Jamie Jackson has written some code that uses the weather.com API to pull a weather forecast into his Pi. He then displays it on his PiTFT using some icons he downloaded. It’s a neat little set-up that is well worth a…
Cheap(ish) Home Automation with the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has just published this blog post which has Amy Mather controlling electrical sockets via a Raspberry Pi. She’s using an Energenie GPIO plugin board and extension block and controlling it via Python on the Pi. You can get…
#RaspberryPi Foundation LCD display inches closer
The long-awaited LCD from the Foundation may be a bit closer now after Eben Upton revealed to PCR that, on the 23rd June, he had signed off on a purchase order for a prototype PCB. The screen, which is expected…
TiddlyBot – the cute and cuddly #RaspberryPi robot from @ThePiBot
Harry Gee and the Agilic team have just launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for their TiddlyBot. It’s a very simple, very small robot powered by the Pi. It’s designed to be used for education, either in schools or at…
Tetris Duel – bare metal multiplayer Tetris for #RaspberryPi
Han Qiao, Piotr Chabierski, Michał Sienkiewicz & Utsav Tiwary from Imperial College London have written a multiplayer Tetris game for the Pi using bare metal assembly code. You can see a demo video above and access the code on GitHub here.