Luke Westaway of cnet.com has done a nice piece on the development of the Raspberry Pi and it’s mission. It’s a video that features footage from Pi Towers and includes interviews with Eben Upton, Gordon Hollingworth and Carrie Anne Philbin. Take a look above.
Ahead of the Raspberry Pi Foundation website’s “Jam area” (that I worked on last week with Ben Nuttall) going live, I’m still doing my best to spread the Jam as best I can!
The latest Raspberry Jam to be announced will take place at Gartner in Egham on the 5th of October from 2-5pm. Announced by WinkleInk, this is the first one to take place in Egham in a year and will be a friendly show-and-tell type Jam where people bring stuff along to share and show off.
Tickets are available from EventBrite. Any questions, please post them to the Foundation forum or contact the organiser on Twitter @WinkleInk.
Greg McCarthy decided to see if it was possible to run Windows on the Pi. He succeeded with versions 1.01, 2.1 and 2.11. He also used someone else’s instructions to get Windows 95 running as well. All the versions use Qemu to do it. You can get the instructions to do this from his blog. Bear in mind that it runs very slowly and is practically unusable, but at least it runs!
Les Pounder went to the Raspberry Jamboree in Manchester earlier this year and interviewed Dave Jones. Dave is the author of the PiCamera Python library for the Pi. You can read the interview here.
Gert Van Loo, designer of the original Raspberry Pi Alpha board, has come up with a new board for the B+. It plugs into the GPIO pins and gives you a VGA port! The quality of the video output is outstanding and it can work at the same time as the HDMI port so you could experiment with having a cloned or extended desktop. Gert is intending to open-source the design so no doubt we’ll see it available before long, although what price it will be is not determined yet (I’m hoping for considerably less than most HDMI-VGA adapters out there). Only 4 of the GPIO pins are not used for the VGA so it pretty much hogs the GPIO, but if all you want is VGA output I think that’s a fair compromise. You can read a little bit more about the board over at RasPi.TV.
The CamJam on Saturday was a great success and there was a real buzz about the place. We’re not sure how many people attended, but I’d guess around 140 were there (including some ‘celebs’ – you can see a lot of well-known faces above!). There are now five write-ups of the event on various blogs and I’ve collected them altogether on the CamJam website, so head over there to read all about it!
Photo credit: The Average Man
