Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great little guide to using omxplayer to play videos from the command line. As he points out, this is a great way of playing videos that you’ve recorded from the camera module. Read the guide
Echo’s Room with Murmur and the #RaspberryPi – visualising sound waves / @Raspberry_Pi
This is an awesome project.
“Murmur” is a device which takes spoken sounds and converts them into waves which it then uses as the source for a visual projection that is just stunning.
More information can be found on their Project Page.
Use the Minecraft API with the full version using Raspberry Juice
Martin O’Hanlon has blogged a way to use a Java package to allow you to use your Minecraft Pi Edition scripts with the full version of Minecraft. It’s fairly complicated to do, but he’s written a full tutorial. Read the tutorial here
#RaspberryPi-powered Antique Telegraph Sounder dings when a sale is made
Patrick Schless has been working for the last 9 months on a project involving an antique telegraph sounder and a Raspberry Pi. He’s created a PCB to handle the interface between the Pi and the sounder and written code to detect when a sale is made through his Etsy store. See the finished project write-up here
Concise guide to setting up a #RaspberryPi web server
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a guide to installing a webserver capable of serving HTML and PHP pages using lighttpd. Read more here
Review of Rasplex for #RaspberryPi
Matt at TechMadeEasy.co.uk has written a very positive review of Rasplex, the new kid-on-the-block for Raspberry Pi media centre users. Read the review now