Monthly Archives: July 2014

The week in gadgets: Raspberry Pi robot, vibrating shoes and Xiaomi’s Mi Band – Siliconrepublic.com

Siliconrepublic.com The week in gadgets: Raspberry Pi robot, vibrating shoes and Xiaomi's Mi Band Siliconrepublic.com With the help of a low-cost Raspberry Pi computer board included in the kit, users can build their own dinky robot that can draw and follow lines, output a live wireless video feed and be controlled via a web interface from a smartphone, tablet or any …

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Make A Chromecast-Hijacking Rickrolling Device Out Of A Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker Australia

Make A Chromecast-Hijacking Rickrolling Device Out Of A Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia This device, based on a Raspberry Pi and created by analyst Dan Petro, floods any Chromecast in the area with disconnect requests and then begins playing Rick Astely's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'. You can see it in action in the video above

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Syria’s children learn to code with Raspberry Pi – The Guardian

The Guardian Syria's children learn to code with Raspberry Pi The Guardian The multi-award-winning Raspberry Pi – a credit-card sized computer that plugs into a TV and has the processing power of a desktop PC – is arriving in the area, a far cry from its origins in 2006 at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory.

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Raspberry Pi-based signage player sips 7 Watts – LinuxGizmos

Raspberry Pi -based signage player sips 7 Watts LinuxGizmos It helps that the 7 Watt, Raspian Linux-enabled signage player runs on a Raspberry Pi . The project involves a collaboration with UK-based Silver Curve, which has developed a graphics engine called Aperture that optimizes the VideoCore IV GPU found in …

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Pi in the Sky: hardware for high-altitude balloonists from Dave Akerman

Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave has been sending Raspberry Pis to the stratosphere under weather balloons since we launched the Pi in 2012, and his work in helping schools develop their own in-house space programs has been fantastic to watch

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Anders cooks up Raspberry Pi digital signage media player – Digital Signage Today

Anders cooks up Raspberry Pi digital signage media player Digital Signage Today According to the company's blog, it has worked with partner Silver Curve to create a digital signage media player running on the Raspberry Pi computing platform, “one of the most exciting and talked about computing platforms out there, with, by the way …

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Raspberry Pi Model B+ review – V3.co.uk

V3.co.uk Raspberry Pi Model B+ review V3.co.uk The Raspberry Pi Foundation unveiled the latest incarnation of its affordable single-board computer recently, sporting a redesign that adds more USB ports and access to more I/O pins from the processor, but keeping software compatibility with the …

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Exploring computing education in rural schools in India

Earlier this year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation supported a University of Cambridge team of two researchers, Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia, in a pilot project exploring the possibilities of providing computing access and education in rural schools in India.

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Use a Raspberry Pi to build a Game Boy – Fudzilla

Use a Raspberry Pi to build a Game Boy Fudzilla We have done a lot of interesting things with the Raspberry Pi since it was released. We have done things like build a GPS synchronized NTP server, computer room temperature monitor, and our personal favorite the streaming playback box

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