Andy Felong took a Raspberry Pi, a case for an old radio, an amplifier and an LCD plus driver board and created a media centre. He’s given a few more details on his blog and, if you post in the…
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#RaspberryPi Compute Module Development Kit now available
Exciting news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. The development kit for the new Compute Module is now available from RS (£170 including VAT and delivery) and Element14 (£152 including VAT and delivery). Not too sure why there is such a price…
#RaspberryPi bluetooth receiver for car stereo
Parker Reed decided he wanted to allow his car stereo to play audio received over bluetooth. So, he hooked up a Raspberry Pi with a bluetooth dongle to his car’s cigarette lighter power socket (using a USB adapter) and altered…
My #RaspberryPi Anniversary
Not much to report this evening apart from a quick mention of my second Pi-versary. Two years ago on this date, I received my first Raspberry Pi (see the picture of the box above!). I didn’t have a clue what…
Stop freezing pipes with the #RaspberryPi and a new #Arduino board
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has invented a new board that plugs into the Raspberry Pi. Called a RasPiO duino, it’s programmable from the Pi and will also work away from the Pi providing it’s given a power source. He has…
Display TrueType fonts on your #RaspberryPi PiTFT screen
Here’s a quick tutorial and code snippet for you. It uses Python to list the TrueType fonts on your Pi and display them on a PiTFT screen. Read how to do it here.
DIY #RaspberryPi photo booth
DrumminHands Design has written up their photo booth project with enough detail that you could probably reproduce their work. It uses a huge button to take photographs using the camera module then turns the pictures into an animated gif and…
Use a Wii Nunchuck on the #RaspberryPi to control a turtle
Jason Barnett has written a tutorial over on tuts+ about using a Wii Nunchuck to control the turtle library to draw lines via Python. There’s two ways of doing it: hacking directly into the circuitry of the Nunchuck or using…
Playing bridge on your #RaspberryPi
Russell Davis is a keen bridge player and has been playing about with getting various pieces of software to run on his Pi. Read more here
Free #RaspberryPi CPD for teachers/leaders/technicians in Birmingham
Mr Organ from KESH Academy in Birmingham is arranging some free Raspberry Pi-themed CPD for teachers, technicians and school leaders on 3rd July. Aimed at primary and secondary teachers, the early evening session will take place at KESH Academy. The…