The aim To operate the Raspberry Pi using a Jornada 680 (pictured, left) as a dumb terminal. The solution The Jornada 680 has a cable for sync-ing to Windows, the end of which terminates with a serial connector. Now, as…
Category: Making
Custom Splash Screen for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
I found this solution for creating a custom splash screen for the Pi. Custom Splash Screen for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) – EDV-Huber.com. I’m cutting-and-pasting here just in case it disappears on it’s home site. This is a quick and dirty…
New from Adafruit – T-shaped Pi Cobbler
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit Pi T-Cobbler Breakout Kit for Raspberry Pi « adafruit industries blog.
PiFace – new product from Farnell/Element 14
Proving that Farnell/Element 14 are still championing the Raspberry Pi cause, they’ve just announced that, in addition to their Gertboard Pre-Assembled product, they will soon be supplying the Pi-Face. Pi-Face Digital plugs directly onto the top of your Raspberry Pi,…
LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook
(Might as well post to my blog seeing as I’ve been up since 5am and no sign of sleep returning yet!) Here’s an interesting Instructable – how to make a RPi laptop using an aluminnium case and a bunch of…
Want some inspiration?
Head over to limor’s site to see her collection of projects.
Just installed the Adafruit WebIDE
Well! Finally, after three attempts, I successfully installed the Adafruit WebIDE by following their instructions here: Overview | Adafruit Learning System Raspberry Pi WebIDE | Adafruit Learning System. One thing to note. the instructions are currently wrong. The IDE does NOT…
Raspberry Pi-based ‘root any Android’ box – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology | Geek.com
Not too sure how I feel about reblogging a hacking device, but it looks so cute I felt I had to! Meet the Raspberry Pi-based ‘root any Android’ box – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology | Geek.com.
Redwing Pi scripts released
Following the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam, and the fair amount of success running the PiPodCorder with a working temperature sensor and LCD read-out, I’ve decided to put the code onto GitHub in the hope that somewhere someone will find them…
MiniPiio from Zuzebox
Yet another couple of add-on boards, but these look very interesting. MiniPiio « Zuzebox’s Blog Buy from Tindie The L293D board: This is a DC Motor controller using the venerable L293D from ST (and others). The L293D is dual H-Bridge driver…