Just saw this over at The MagPi, so thought I’d share. Joe Foulkes wanted to create an as cheap-as-possible gaming console. So, he took an old Samsung Galaxy box, a Pi Zero, some prototyping board and some other components and…
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NEC creates large displays with Raspberry Pi compute module
NEC have just announced that they are to produce large (>=40″) displays with an integrated slot for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. The big news here is that they are planning to use the as-yet-unreleased-publicly Compute Module 3 (take a look…
Flash and Scratch 2.0 working on Chromium on Raspberry Pi PIXEL
Albert Hickey wondered if Chromium (being the new default browser for Raspbian) would support Flash. Most specifically, he wondered if Scratch 2.0 through the browser would work. To start with, it wouldn’t. However, following an update/upgrade, it suddenly did! Here’s…
An introduction to PiBakery, the set-up tool for Raspberry Pi
Kicker22004 has done a great introductory video to PiBakery, the pre-boot configuration tool for Raspbian written by David Ferguson. You can take a look at the video below and take a look at PiBakery yourself here.
Philip Colligan from Raspberry Pi is interviewed by Cambridge TV
Philip Colligan, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, talks to Cambridge TV’s Alina Trabattoni in their Business Focus segment. In the interview, Philip talks about how the Pi came about, the community, some of the projects they’ve been involved with…
Hack into the Pokemon API and make this clever little Raspberry Pi tracker
The Ruiz brothers over at Adafruit have found a way to create a Pokemon tracking device by hacking into the Pokemon API. Warning: make a separate account because this is definitely against their terms of service! They use a Raspberry Pi Zero and a…
Tweaking the Raspberry Pi desktop PIXEL environment
Alex Eames has been playing about with PIXEL, the new desktop environment for the Raspberry Pi. He’s documented how to change/remove the splash screen, how to disable menu tooltips, how to change the background graphic and how to find the desktop…
Rewarding good behaviour with the Raspberry Pi
Stuart Harrison has a young son whose school awards (good behaviour) reward points and (bad) behaviour points. Frustrated with the school’s interface, Stuart set-up a screen scraper to get the data off their system and put it onto his own…
Bloomberg covers David Pride’s 4Bot and interviews Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton
Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg recently visited the UK, more specifically Gloucester and Cambridge. In Gloucester, he visited David Pride who created the awesome 4Bot Connect 4-playing robot. Vance also interviews Eben Upton, on a punt, to get the rationale behind…
Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT reviewed by Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi
In this month’s issue of The MagPi (the 50th), Phil King reviews Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT. This little board features 6 micro-LED matrices that can be programmed independently. Read the review here. The pHAT is available from Pimoroni, The Pi Hut and…