Monthly Archives: April 2013

Learn Raspberry Pi from a nine-year-old – Electronics News

Learn Raspberry Pi from a nine-year-old Electronics News The Master Class, to be held 8 June 2013 from 11am to 2pm at the Powerhouse Museum ThinkSpace, will see adults being taught by the nine-year-old on how to work with the credit-sized Raspberry Pi .

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Bird photography with a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR

Tricky things, birds. Even when you’ve got yourself sorted out with boxes and feeders to entice them into your garden, it can be very difficult to get a decent photograph – they don’t stay still for long, especially if they see you coming (and it is amazing at just how adept birds are at spotting the slightest movement – the sort of movement you might make to operate the zoom lens on your camera, for example), and many feeding birds will only visit the table for a few seconds at a time, even if you’re well hidden. Enter Adrian Bevan and his Raspberry Pi.

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Adafruit WebIDE – new alpha release available

News from across the pond arrived last night, UK time. Our good friends at Adafruit have been working on their web-based integrated development environment (IDE) – hence WebIDE – for the Raspberry Pi, and have made a number of changes based on your requests

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Use your desktop or laptop screen and keyboard with your Pi

Meltwater has come up with a nice little trick which allows you to use your laptop or desktop’s display and keyboard as the display and keyboard for your Pi. You won’t need to do any soldering or to buy any special equipment: all you need is a network cable. You’ll be using the network port to do this, so if you were relying on it to get internet connectivity you’ll need a wireless dongle too, but using another device’s keyboard and display means that you can cut right down on the kit you need to carry around if you’re bringing your Pi somewhere to show off your latest project

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The Life of Dalriada’s (Raspberry) Pi! – Ballymoney and Moyle Times

The Life of Dalriada's ( Raspberry ) Pi ! Ballymoney and Moyle Times The Life of Dalriada's ( Raspberry ) Pi ! Published on 19/04/2013 09:05. TAKE a Raspberry Pi (which is a small credit-sized computer costing around £25) and give it to a small group of Dalriada pupils

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Innovative Home-Hacker Raspberry Pi Mini-Computer Sales Surpass 1 Million – SiliconANGLE (blog)

Innovative Home-Hacker Raspberry Pi Mini-Computer Sales Surpass 1 Million SiliconANGLE (blog) Raspberry Pi is one of the most sought after devices these days, and this is quite evident by the massive sales it is making. Recently, the sales of credit card-sized computer surpassed a number of 1 Million, leading company to manufacture more units.

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Raspberry Pi colocation

Liz: Thor de Regt, from Amsterdam, emailed me back at the start of the month to tell me about the success his company has been having offering free Raspberry Pi colocation. There are a few companies around the world offering this service for free for Raspberry Pi users, and we were interested to find out how and why this was going on.

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Raspberry Pi: What can you do with it? – ITProPortal

ITProPortal Raspberry Pi : What can you do with it? ITProPortal The Raspberry Pi is a fully featured computer, and you can do almost anything with it that you can do with a desktop computer. When you switch it on, it has a text prompt, but you can use a graphical windows desktop to start and manage programs

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