Monthly Archives: January 2014

Occidentalis Tweaks the Raspberry Pi OS for Electronics Hacking – Lifehacker

Occidentalis Tweaks the Raspberry Pi OS for Electronics Hacking Lifehacker The Raspberry Pi is already set up pretty nicely for doing pretty much whatever you want with it, but if you're looking to run some of your own electronics, Occidentalis is a tweaked Linux distribution that packs in pretty much everything you need to …

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Raspberry Pi Drives Lego Car – EE Times

Raspberry Pi Drives Lego Car EE Times He is literally moving the joysticks on the remote with a servo, as opposed to issuing IR commands from the Raspberry Pi . As you can see in the video above, he has a webcam attached to the Raspberry Pi , allowing him to drive it with a first-person …

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Control the Raspberry Pi from Your iPad – Lifehacker

Control the Raspberry Pi from Your iPad Lifehacker Control the Raspberry Pi from Your iPad. If you have both a Raspberry Pi and an iPad, this tutorial from What a Palaver's Angela Wolff will help you remotely control the Pi with your tablet—from anywhere you have an internet connection. She uses three …

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Geeky Fun for Friday: A Beginner’s Guide to Raspberry Pi – Data Center Knowledge

Geeky Fun for Friday: A Beginner's Guide to Raspberry Pi Data Center Knowledge Raspberry Pi – the little case-less computer that can fit in your pocket- generates enough power to run your home media center, a VPN, and a lot more. But before you can kick back and watch movies on this $35 machine, you need to configure it and …

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Raspberry Pi: Extending the life of the SD card – ZDNet

Raspberry Pi : Extending the life of the SD card ZDNet Recently I posted about how I believe that the Raspberry Pi is the perfect small server. One question came up about the SD storage. SD cards are said to have a finite amount of writes that are possible, before they start to fail.

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David Cameron talks Pi at Davos

We’ve just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos, where he’s been talking about reshoring. And it got us very excited, because at 1m 03s he talks about Raspberry Pi. It is deeply weird to hear your company being namechecked by the PM.

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A sneak peek at some content from our new website

As you may have gathered from large hints we’ve been dropping, we’re partway through a complete redesign and overhaul of this website. All the stuff that you’re familiar with here will be staying, but there will also be lots of new content, easy-to-download projects, and areas for teachers, learners and makers with classroom materials, worksheets and much more. The new site will come online (as a beta – we’ll be looking for your feedback later) in the spring; right now we’re working on architecture, design, and, most importantly, content.

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Blow me! A Raspberry Pi-powered datacentre – ComputerWeekly.com (blog)

Blow me! A Raspberry Pi -powered datacentre ComputerWeekly.com (blog) We all know datacentre servers are shrinking, but could they really be colonised by the humble Raspberry Pi ? New UK colocation firm Colocker says they can

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Two Years of Raspberry Pi Video Celebrates The Awesome Mini PC (video) – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets Two Years of Raspberry Pi Video Celebrates The Awesome Mini PC (video) Geeky gadgets Next month is the second anniversary of the launch of the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC and to celebrate this event a celebratory movie has been created by The Raspberry Pi Guy over on YouTube. The Raspberry Pi mini PC movie celebrates a range of

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A video that made us cry

A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt Timmons-Brown (who you may know better as The Raspberry Pi Guy from his excellent series of YouTube tutorials) sent us this video late last night, we watched it together and found that by the end we had both got salty tears on our Battenberg cake

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