Monthly Archives: March 2014

Meet the manic miner who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins – Ars Technica

Ars Technica Meet the manic miner who wants to mint 10% of all new bitcoins Ars Technica There are many out there, but the Raspberry Pi is something like 40 bucks,” Carlson told Ars. Carlson's company, MegaBigPower, does the biggest portion of its mining on behalf of its primary investor, the BioInfoBank Institute in Poland. Carlson takes …

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2014 Raspberry Pi Competition shortlist announced – E&T magazine

E&T magazine 2014 Raspberry Pi Competition shortlist announced E&T magazine A system that helps reduce vehicle emissions by enabling drivers to locate empty car parking spaces, and a tool for making recycling easier, are among the finalists of the PA Consulting Group's second Raspberry Pi programming competition. The …

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Learning Python with Raspberry Pi

If you’ve been round here for any length of time, you’ve probably heard mention of Alex Bradbury. Alex is currently polishing off his PhD thesis at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge, and he’s been involved with the Raspberry Pi project as a volunteer from our very early days, back when all we had was alpha development boards. Alex is responsible for building and releasing Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian OS images, and maintaining our Debian repository in his (limited) spare time

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Little taste in SA for Raspberry Pi – TechCentral

TechCentral Little taste in SA for Raspberry Pi TechCentral The focus of the low-cost microcomputer Raspberry Pi , which costs as little as R349, has not hit its intended target market in South Africa, says RS Components, one of two global distributors of Raspberry Pi . RS Components GM Brian Andrews says it's ..

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Smart kegerator

We first came across kegerators last year : it never ceases to amaze me how many of you use your Raspberry Pis to both simplify and massively overcomplicate your drinking. The kegerator is not a popular device here in the UK, but, judging by the emails I get from readers, there are enough of the things across the pond to get the whole continent of North America very drunk indeed.

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Nvidia takes on Raspberry Pi with the Jetson TK1 mini supercomputer – Inquirer

Inquirer Nvidia takes on Raspberry Pi with the Jetson TK1 mini supercomputer Inquirer With a total performance of 326 GFLOPS, the Jetson TK1 should be more powerful than the Raspberry Pi board, which delivers just 24 GFLOPS, but will retail for much more, costing $192 in the US – a number that matches the number of cores in the Tegra K1

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Tiny Arcade Machine Holds Raspberry Pi – EE Times

Tiny Arcade Machine Holds Raspberry Pi EE Times Housed inside the tiny cabinet is a Raspberry Pi loaded with Mame, an emulator for a game system. This specific version of Mame is called PiMame and can emulate several different video gaming systems. You can find more information on PiMame here,

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Running Raspberry Pi natively in a Honda Civic? Oh, the possibilities! – TechnologyTell

Running Raspberry Pi natively in a Honda Civic? Oh, the possibilities! TechnologyTell Yes, that's a Raspberry Pi hooked into the head unit of a new Honda Civic, effectively transforming the Civic's infotainment screen into a monitor for the micro PC-on-a-microchip seen in the console. (Photo courtesy Aaron Gold/About.com Cars).

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