Jeff Skinner has blogged about all things X! He’s also described all the terminology you might want to know to understand what X is and how it works.
He has been experimenting with using the Raspberry Pi as an X server and then using both a desktop computer and, now, an iPad as a client.
Andy Jagoe has written an Instructable for creating a photo frame or media panel with a Raspberry Pi and an LCD screen. Read the Instructable
Oscar Andersson has created a Raspberry Pi version of Philips’ Ambilight that uses ambient lighting to enhance your television experience. Best explained with the video posted on the Foundation’s site (see below). More information can be found at the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog entry including technical details.
![[kontroller]: Raspberry Pi Weather station (in 5 mins)](/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/weather21.jpg)
Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD screen. Read the article with full details here
If you want to know more about the screen in particular, he’s done another blog post here. Not a bad screen for around $30.
Meltwater has done an extensive guide on communication with your Raspberry Pi via a network cable between the Pi and your laptop (or other machine). It’s quite long-winded, and for anything graphical it’s even longer with a lot of hoops to jump through, but if you need something like this, this is the best tutorial I’ve seen yet. Read the guide. If you know a fair bit about networks and installing bits and pieces, there is also a in-a-nutshell version.
David Whale has also covered this kind of thing on his blog.
Texas-based “big data” company Lab7 are blogging about the creation of 4-node Raspberry Pi clusters. This is part one of a two part tutorial series which should tell you how they did it. Read more here
