Hacker Ed Dawson has used an addressable strip of LED lights and some circuitry to create a sunrise clock. He’s done a complete write-up on reproducing his project. This is especially impressive because until the creation of some Python drivers…
Category: Software
Voice controlled electrical outlets with the #RaspberryPi
Ben Finio has written an excellent Instructable in which he details the process of reverse-engineering some wireless remotes for electrical sockets and then combines them with a Pi running Steven Hickson‘s VoiceCommand software. Read all about it here
A portable classroom on the #RaspberryPi with edX
Open-source online learning platform edX can now be run on the Raspberry Pi. Started by MIT & Harvard, the development team has released a new distro image that you can download and install on an SD card. It is at…
Installing Weewx on #RaspberryPi
Chris Davies-Barnard wanted to use his Raspberry Pi for reading data from a La Crosse Weather Station. To do this, he’s using the open source Python-based Weewx software. He’s blogged about how to install the software. Read it here.
Mono 3.2.7 with hard float support on the #RaspberryPi
Chris Mobberley and Alex Petersen have been working hard to get a hard-float optimised version of Mono working on the Pi. Mono is a .Net platform which includes a C# compiler and common language runtime. You can read more here about…
New accelerated web browser in beta for the #RaspberryPi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Collabora have released a new version of “Web”, an HTML5-enabled web browser. Previously called Epiphany, the “Web” web browser aims to support: A good multi-tab experience ARMv6-optimized 2d rendering Accelerated image and HTML5 video decoding…
Redundant shared file system across multiple #RaspberryPi servers
Kyle Rankin has written a piece for Linux Journal in which he creates a shared file system with redundancy across two Pis using GlusterFS. He’s detailed the procedure extensively and it’s well worth a look if you want to create…
Wall mounted Google Calendar with #RaspberryPi
Alex Pine has written a decent Instructable on the steps required to get a Google Calendar display that can be mounted on a wall in your house/office. It takes you through the software you need to install (including the SD…
Synergy on the #RaspberryPi
Adafruit has published a new tutorial to enable you to use Synergy on your Pi. Synergy is a free and open source software that allows multiple computers to share a mouse and keyboard. One of the computers that the keyboard and…
Setting up Epson Scanning on the #RaspberryPi
John Carmack wanted to off-load document scanning from his home PC and chose a Pi to do the job. It’s a little slow and there is a limit to the amount of scanning you can do (because of the Pi’s…