Education, GPIO boards

#RaspberryPi Foundation invites contributions to its Demo Table

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The Foundation is looking for stuff for it’s demo table!

If you’ve got something Raspberry Pi-related you could give them to show off in schools, be it a DIY project or an expansion board that you’d like to get more publicity for, contact them to sort out getting it to them.

I’d say this was a great opportunity for makers of development boards to spread the word about their products, particularly those aimed at the Education sector!

I’m rather hoping that someone at the Foundation will get hold of a Gertboard and Wiimote and replicate Alex Eames’ Raspi.TV project!

Programming, Robotics

Interfacing #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote – additional info

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Interfacing with a Wiimote - Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi

Just a quick note… you can tell the Wiimote to report, and tell the Pi to read, the state of the accelerometer on the Wiimote so you can work out its orientation.

Here’s a code snippet from the article:

#set Wiimote to report button presses and accelerometer state 
wm.rpt_mode = cwiid.RPT_BTN | cwiid.RPT_ACC 

Read the full Cambridge University article here
Making

DSTAR amateur radio net with #RaspberryPi

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Raspberry Pi – DSTAR amateur radio net | Dangerous Prototypes

The Raspberry Pi /DStar amateur radio group on Facebook combines two hobbies together, The Raspberry Pi computer and D-STAR radio. The group wants you to know about their R-Pi/D-STAR amateur radio net which will be conducted most Monday Nights starting February 18th, 2013 on REF026A (Vancouver, BC Reflector). Repeaters, DVAPsand Dongles are welcome to connect. The net starts at 1900 hrs PST local time (or 0300 hrs GMT Tuesday morning.)

While D-STAR radio is still slow in gaining popularity among ham radio ops due in large part to the cost of ICOM radios, this type of net provides an example of the excellent opportunities this radio-internet connected medium can afford to techies worldwide who hold amateur radio licenses.

Raspberry Pi – DSTAR amateur radio net | Dangerous Prototypes.