Monthly Archives: July 2013

Pi-Rex: The Raspberry Pi-Based Dog-Door That Unlocks With A Bark! – CrazyEngineers

Treehugger Pi-Rex: The Raspberry Pi -Based Dog-Door That Unlocks With A Bark! CrazyEngineers Woof woof, and that's it! Your dog is the new Alibaba as far as unlocking doors are concerned, the magical spell being just its usual bark. New pet owner and Raspberry – Pi enthusiast David Hunt wanted to let his dog attend its early morning piss-call …

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American Pi Hackspace Tour, part the second

Rob Bishop, our developer-evangelist, spent some of last summer visiting US hackspaces, giving Raspberry Pi talks and demonstrations. Because there was only a short time we could spare him for, there were large parts of the country that he wasn’t able to visit – and you let us know you weren’t happy about that

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The Fairywren board turns your Raspberry Pi into a full – fledged desktop computer – TechHive

The Fairywren board turns your Raspberry Pi into a full – fledged desktop computer TechHive The Raspberry Pi is already an awesome computer-on-a-stick, but if you need a little more power, check out the Fairywren. It's a new Mini-ITX motherboard from the Australian Geekroo that converts your Raspberry Pi into a desktop computer. Plugging your

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Bend Gordon’s ear

Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, is saddened that I called him out for being camera-shy the other day. So he’s offered to star in a new feature, which we’ll make a regular happening here if readers (that’s you!) like the idea. If you have a question about the Pi you’d like Gordon and his whiteboard to answer (we’ve hung it up properly and bought in pens of many colours just for the occasion), please leave a comment below

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Raspberry Pi hack unlocks door when it hears a dog’s bark [Video] – Treehugger

Treehugger Raspberry Pi hack unlocks door when it hears a dog's bark [Video] Treehugger The system is called Pi -Rex, a bark-activated (note, not voice activated, but bark activated) door. Hunt states, “Sleep deprivation has been driving me mad recently

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Getting Hi-Fi sound from Raspberry Pi – ElectronicsWeekly.com

ElectronicsWeekly.com Getting Hi-Fi sound from Raspberry Pi ElectronicsWeekly.com On Revision 2 of the Raspberry Pi PCB, connections for these two busses are bought out next to the GPIO pin headers on P5, a footprint which allows a second 0.1in pitch header to be soldered in. Differences between Revision 1 and Revision 2 boards are

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Chess. Bare metal assembly language chess.

Pootling around the Raspberry Pi forums late last night, I found something that rightfully shouldn’t exist. It’s a two-player chess game for the Pi – nothing so unusual there – written in assembly language , with no OS.

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MagicPlay creator crafts Raspberry Pi demo – Register

MagicPlay creator crafts Raspberry Pi demo Register In the meantime, of course, it's a DIY creature, so the company's co-founder Jon Lech Johansen has demonstrated the Raspberry Pi hack to give people a look at how to put a MagicPlay setup together. As well as the Raspberri Pi, Johansen's setup has an

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‘Space’ camera wins Raspberry Pi competition – ElectronicsWeekly.com

'Space' camera wins Raspberry Pi competition ElectronicsWeekly.com “Since I took the first image I've flown six Raspberry Pi missions, mostly using a webcam to take photos for transmission down to the ground, but more recently using the new Pi Camera. The images I can now capture are much better quality than before …

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