These have just come on sale on Etsy – wooden cases for the Raspberry Pi Model A.
These are really nice-looking cases made out of birch plywood and require no glue or screws to put together – the teeth just lock together. It has slots for all the ports and also vents for cooling. Not bad for about £10-12. You can buy them from Bitcrafts here
I found a way to join all the snapshots from the camera module together to create this video. I used the following command to do it:
mencoder “mf://*.jpg” -mf fps=10 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800
Lin Jojen has written a tutorial on how to play HTML5 and YouTube videos on the Raspberry Pi. However, please be aware that several of the comments on the blog post indicate that the method isn’t always successful. Read more here
Trevor Appleton has done a great mini-guide to how to use apt-get on the Raspberry Pi. Read the guide here for some top tips!
The Foundation has done a nice piece on the release of the latest and greatest version of OpenElec, the XBMC distro. Read more information here or get the OpenElec distro from their site.
This was a webinar hosted by element14 luminaries Drew Fustini and Cabe Atwell in which they discuss the next stage in the Raspberry Pi revolution: the development of easy to use accessories. This webinar focusses on the PiFace and Gertboard.
