This is a work-in-progress but nice to take a look at if you like photography projects. Nicholas Moore is working on a camera based on work done by Adafruit with an automatic Tweet-sender program. Read more here.
Shutdown button for the #RaspberryPi
Phil has taken a nice big arcade button and hooked it up to the GPIO so that when he presses the button it shuts down his Pi. Read more here.
Designing and making an injection-moulded case for the #RaspberryPi
Here’s a nice piece over on the Adafruit site about the design and manufacture of their popular Pi case. They cover initial design, prototype printing and finally the creation of the injection mould to produce the product. As the son of a man who used to make these moulds, the process is fascinating. Read their account here.
#RaspberryPi Foundation publishes technical details of Compute Module
Thanks to Pi Weekly for pointing this out!
The Foundation has published a lot more technical detail on the new Compute Module over on their site. Read the info here.
#RaspberryPi features in this month’s Linux Format
Linux Format this month is a good one for Raspberry Pi owners. It features the following:
- A (very positive) review of Sonic Pi.
- A small box-out about using the Pi as a media centre.
- An extensive feature by Les Pounder from the Raspberry Jamboree in March including interviews with: Martin O’Hanlon, Andrew Mulholland & Simon Walters.
- Some great pictures of the Jamboree including (Fame At Last!) a picture of the back of my head!!!
- Using FreeCAD to design and then 3D print a case for your Pi.
- Tutorials on using Python to hack into Minecraft Pi Edition and building a trebuchet weapon!
The issue is in shops now.
WildFly: a lightweight Java application server on the #RaspberryPi
Arun Gupta has been investigating a way to run the lightweight Java application server Wildfly on the Pi. He’s now posted up a tutorial on installing an OS on the Pi and then installing Wildfly itself. Well worth a look if you’re interested in Java development on the Pi. Read more here.