Giles Booth (and his kids) have taken an old USB audio input/output box and made an internet radio out of it. He’s now added a button to it to change the station.
Pairing the #RaspberryPi with a Parallella board
Shodruky Rhyammer has taken a Parallella board and linked it via ethernet cable to a Raspberry Pi. He’s then used the Parallella’s processor to do the number crunching and the Pi to do graphics processing to create a much more powerful machine. Here’s a video of it in action:
PiLite displays time, weather and messages using a #RaspberryPi
Martin has blogged about using the Ciseco PiLite and getting it to display useful information such as the current time and weather as well as some Christmas messages. He’s made the code available online.
Read more here or watch his video below:
Analog sensors without analog inputs on the #RaspberryPi
Electronics guru Simon Monk has posted on his blog about using some analog inputs, such as a potentiometer, with the Pi without needing to add an A2D chip. He’s done this by using a couple of resistors and a capacitor to measure resistance using the “step response” method.
Merry Christmas to the #RaspberryPi community!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful time unwrapping presents and eating a great deal of food! I really hope that you’ve got some electronics goodies and, especially, a Raspberry Pi in your stocking!
To those of you who read this blog regularly, thanks for being a part of the brilliant Raspberry Pi community. By getting together, learning and sharing we can a) make sure more people know how technology works (and not just how to use it) and b) make the world just a little bit more geeky!
To those of you who have just got your Pis and are eager to learn more, welcome to the blog. I share lots of Pi-related stories on here, so please visit regularly to find out more. I tend to post every day and subscribing to the RSS feed is about the best way to keep up to date. If you don’t quite know what to do with your Pi, I recommend going to the Raspberry Pi Foundation website and reading their latest blog entry which features a great step-by-step guide to getting going and what to do next! Also, keep an eye out for Raspberry Jams – these are meetings you can go to to share your experience with the Pi and to get ideas and learn how to do things with your credit-card sized computer. If you’re in the area, the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam is on 8th February and we’d love to see you there! Keep an eye out on this blog for registration information or watch out on Twitter for announcements.
As a Christian, I would just like to pass on my wish that everyone would remember why we celebrate Christmas and I hope that the blessings of the Lord shine upon you and your family this festive season. God Bless.
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
Read more, including how to install it (it’s not complicated, but it is a little bit “manual” at the moment) are available on the Foundation’s blog.