Lifehacker are publishing a series this week on DIY with your Raspberry Pi for beginners. The first article in the series went up yesterday ; it’s a very simple howto on getting started and set up (even down to a list of peripherals, and how to flash your SD card). We’ll be keeping an eye on this series: we’re looking forward to seeing what beginners’ projects they come up with!
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Lifehacker: a beginner’s guide
bit-tech.net Make Your Own Raspberry Pi Case competition bit-tech.net With Mod of the Year now over, we have a little something for you to beat those post eye-candy blues. Our first modding competition of the year revolves around the Raspberry Pi – if you don’t know what it is, take a look at our extensive review of it here.
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A Beginner’s Guide To The Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia The Raspberry Pi is a wonderful little computer that fits in the palm of your hand, yet packs enough power to run your home media centre, a VPN, and much more besides. Before you can do all that cool stuff, however, you need to configure it and install ..
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IT PRO Raspberry Pi vs Intel NUC: Need to Know IT PRO Intel’s Next Unit of Computing (NUC) brings X86 processing power in its smallest form factor yet and IT Pro looks at how the NUC compares to the Raspberry Pi , which uses an ARM-based SoC design. This isn’t a traditional head-to-head. We didn’t run the ..
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A Beginner’s Guide to DIYing with the Raspberry Pi Lifehacker It’s Raspberry Pi week at Lifehacker, and for the next five days we’ll be showing you some cool DIY projects you can put together with this little miracle of a device. If you haven’t bought one yet, check out the first section below to learn more about …
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Star Wars fan uses Raspberry Pi to build working R2-D2 (video) Pocket-lint.com As a birthday present for his girlfriend, Chinese Star Wars fan greensheller built a working R2-D2 robot using just an old, broken interactive toy version of the movie droid, a Raspberry Pi running Raspian software, and some bits and bobs he bought online. Open Source Computing Brings Everybody's Favorite Droid To Life WebProNews Hacked R2-D2 Toy Now Almost Rivals Skywalker's On-Screen Companion Gizmodo all 3 news articles
Another day (a particularly snowy day, here), another new OS for the Pi.
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Sadly, I don’t have any more information on this project besides what you can see in the video. Which is a grave shame, ‘cos it’s brilliant. Greensheller, who is somewhere in China, has made his girlfriend an interactive, multilingual, face-recognising R2D2 for her birthday, using a Pi and some other off-the-shelf electronics
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Bilingual R2D2
Web IDE The Easiest Way To Program Raspberry Pi iProgrammer The Raspberry Pi Web IDE, which Adafruit announced a few weeks ago, is up and running. and there is an easy-to-watch video to get you started with using it. With over a million sold, Raspberry Pi must be doing something right, but for non-Linux users ..
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Geek Chameleon turns your Raspberry Pi into a retro gaming arcade Geek The Raspberry Pi has already proven itself to be a very capable little and cheap PC. It runs Linux, can be used for development, surfing the web, and playing games
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