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…
Category: Software
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…
Car diagnostics on the Raspberry Pi and PiTFT
Paul Bartek has done an extensive tutorial on using the PiTFT to display data from a car’s OBD-11 port and also a video which you can see below.
Bitcoin mining on the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a nice, basic tutorial article from Rob Zwetsloot over at Linux User magazine. It shows you how to get started mining Bitcoins natively on the Pi. Read it here.
Raspberry Pi controlled 3D printing
I’ve edited this post since I originally posted it as someone pointed out that it wasn’t just the Pi controlling the printer. Doh! Daniel Blair has hooked up his Pi and an Arduino to the printer, a Printrbot, and used a…
Sonic Pi v2 coming to #RaspberryPi in August
Russell Barnes over at Raspi.today has done an interview with Dr Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi. In it, Sam says that the new version will be out in late August and that he already has plans for version 3! Read…
Use BOINC on the #RaspberryPi for a good cause
BOINC is a distributed computing architecture which takes a project, like interpreting data from the Large Hadron Collider, and allows you to contribute to it. You can put the resources of the Raspberry Pi towards these projects by running a…
Install Ruby on Rails on the #RaspberryPi
Ruby on Rails is very popular as a web development language. Sam Berson has written a comprehensive tutorial to get you started on installing it. Then it’s just a case of finding examples online to get you informed as to…
Exchange Rate digital signage with a #RaspberryPi
Instructables user “smching” has written full instructions on setting up your Pi and a screen as a digital sign displaying exchange rate information. Read it here.