Monthly Archives: June 2013

First beta of XBian 1.0 for Raspberry Pi – The H

First beta of XBian 1.0 for Raspberry Pi The H Xbian logo The first beta version of XBian 1.0, a media centre Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi mini-computer, is now available. Since the alpha, the developers have made XBMC Frodo 12.2 the default; that version of XBMC contains many

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Microsoft man and Raspberry Pi both get Silver Medals – Cambridge News

Microsoft man and Raspberry Pi both get Silver Medals Cambridge News He currently works at Broadcom in the city, while his wife, Liz, friends and colleagues runs the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which sold out within a few minutes of launching its Model B and took more than 100,000 pre-orders. To date more than 1.3 million …

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Raspberry Pi used as Block Erupter controller for bitcoin mining – CoinDesk

Geek Raspberry Pi used as Block Erupter controller for bitcoin mining CoinDesk As unlikely as it sounds, the Adafruit learning blog (via the Hackaday blog) has just shown off a Raspberry Pi based bitcoin miner. For those who haven't heard of the Raspberry Pi , it's a small computer on a single circuit board that was designed to be

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Eben has a shiny thing

We’re very proud to be able to announce today that Eben is one of the recipients of the Royal Society of Engineering’s Silver Medal for 2013. You can read all about it in the Telegraph , who have the exclusive. We’re chuffed to bits to hear the news, and will be ensuring that he wears it with the HAL9000 t-shirt that you’re always so polite about in the comments.

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Raspberry Pi bot tracks hacker posts to vacuum up passwords and more – Ars Technica

Ars Technica Raspberry Pi bot tracks hacker posts to vacuum up passwords and more Ars Technica Using a platform that runs on the hobbyist Raspberry Pi platform to drink from this fire hose, a security researcher has cataloged more than 3,000 such posts in less than three months while adding scores more each week. Dumpmon, as the project is …

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Build a Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi – LifeHacker India

Build a Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi LifeHacker India Raspberry Pi can do a lot of neat things and the server this user built is just one of many. The neat part, though, is that this device is being run entirely on a solar panel.

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Raspberry Pi inventor joins silver medal table – Telegraph.co.uk

Telegraph.co.uk Raspberry Pi inventor joins silver medal table Telegraph.co.uk Proceeds from sales of the Cambridge-developed device – which retails for as little as $25 (£16.26) – go to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity. The introduction of the computer in February last year was met with such strong demand that the …

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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated Bitcoin mining machine – Geek (blog)

Geek (blog) Turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated Bitcoin mining machine Geek (blog) USB-dongle mining units require a powered USB hub, since the Raspberry Pi can't do that on its own — and if you're building this thing you'll almost certainly want to use that sort of portable solution.

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RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit Launches On Kickstarter (video) – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit Launches On Kickstarter (video) Geeky gadgets If you enjoy building electronic devices and love the Raspberry Pi mini PC this new RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit might be the perfect project for you.

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