Carl Monk backed Tom Garry’s IndieGoGo campaign and bagged himself a 7 Seg for Raspberry Pi kit. He soldered it together and tried it out and has now given his frank opinion in this review. Read it here.
Watch Live Video of Earth on your #RaspberryPi
Miguel Grinberg has worked out how to play the live stream being broadcast from the International Space Station on the Raspberry Pi. It involves installing some software and writing a short script and is well worth the effort if you’d like to see what Earth looks like from space! Read how here
Bounty offered for a blue #RaspberryPi
Jamie at The Pi Hut is on the hunt for a blue Raspberry Pi! He is offering the following bounty:
- £50 to the seller
- £50 donation to the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the sellers name
- Replacement Raspberry Pi Model B (UK Made)
It’s for his private collection. Only 1000 of the blue Pis were ever made and he’d love to get hold of one and hang it on the wall!
Take a look at his blog post and contact him if you can help!
Win a Pi Crust for your #RaspberryPi
The Average Man has recently reached 300 Twitter followers and has decided to run a competition. You can win one of these special edition Pi Crust boards (pictured above) by simply tweeting a particular message. The message can be found on the Average Man’s blog. You’ve got nothing to lose and a Pi Crust to gain so head on over and enter now!
The Pi Crust is a Raspberry Pi breakout board that sits very low on the Pi and, providing you solder them on, gives you access to lots and lots of headers!
#RaspberryPi NAS for Travellers
Ben Perove has written a tutorial for setting up a Pi as a NAS (storage) device that is as compact as he can make it. Read more here
New advert from RS Components features a #RaspberryPi
Electronics (and Pi) distributor RS Components has just launched this new video to advertise their wares, and it features a Raspberry Pi. It’s worth a watch just to put a smile on your face!