Paul Sutton is organising a series of monthly Jams at Paignton Library and Information Centre. These are all free events. The next one is this Saturday from 1-3pm. You can read more and see the dates for this year on…
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3 million #RaspberryPi units sold and a trip to Buck Palace
The Raspberry Pi Foundation received the Pi sales figures from RS and Farnell and discovered that over 3 million units have now been sold. Considering Eben’s been on record saying that he expected them to sell 10,000 of them, this is…
Brew beer with the #RaspberryPi
Sebastian Düll has created a Raspberry Pi-powered beer brewing controller. It’s pretty advanced (but then, as Lifehacker pointed out: if you want a Pi controlling the brewing you’re going to already be pretty serious about it!) His instructions, including designs…
Schedule programs with cron on the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on the ins-and-outs of using cron to schedule programs to run. It’s useful for all Linux users, not just Raspberry Pi owners! Read all about it here.
Raspberry Jam in Berlin for #RaspberryPi enthusiasts
James Mitchell (@monkeymademe) is organising a Raspberry Jam in Berlin on 5th July. Booking is open and he’s currently looking for people to come along and talk/showcase their projects. Read more on their website
Build a castle with Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins decided that he wanted to build something cool in Minecraft. But, using Python on the Pi Edition of Minecraft he was able to do this via a script. Read how he did it here.
Record TV on a #RaspberryPi with tvheadend
Mike Redrobe has written a tutorial on getting a UB499-T2 DVB tuner working with the Raspberry Pi. It deals with downloading firmware, configuring the software and finally recording onto the Pi’s storage system. Read more here.
Matboard: easy-to-use GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi from a father-and-son team
Father-and-son team Martin and Matthew Brabham have worked together to build a GPIO board for the Pi. The Matboard features 4 LEDs, 4 buttons, 4 relays, a darlington pair transistor buffer to drive the relays and buffer the inputs and a prototyping…
Use a PIR sensor with your #RaspberryPi
This is a nice little project to get you using your GPIO pins – a movement detector using a PIR sensor. Read how to do it here
Interviews with the #RaspberryPi Foundation
Here are a couple of interviews with members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which gives you some insight into their work and viewpoint. The first is with Carrie Anne Philbin by TechRadar in which she discusses making technology more inclusive…