Monthly Archives: December 2014

PiTablet Raspberry Pi Tablet: PiPad – Technabob (blog)

Technabob (blog) PiTablet Raspberry Pi Tablet: PiPad Technabob (blog) We've already seen a netbook based on the Raspberry Pi . Here's a DIY kit for a Raspberry Pi tablet

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Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server – Bharat Press

Bharat Press Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server Bharat Press While you can easily run a server on any computer (the program requires a server app to run in conjunction with a client “game” app), why not use your newly acquired Raspberry Pi ? I don't know! This Instructable essentially tells you how to make a … and more

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Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server – TechCrunch

Build Your Own DIY Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server TechCrunch As we approach the doldrums of winter what could be more cheerful than hours of incessant Minecrafting with you and your loved ones? While you can easily run a server on any computer (the program requires a server app to run in conjunction with a …

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Adafruit capacitive Christmas shenanigans

I got up late today; it’s Boxing day. And there in my inbox was a festive message from our friends in New York, PT and LadyAda, who found themselves at a loose end in the Adafruit factory on Christmas Day and took some video of a beta test they did for a new Raspberry Pi HAT (coming soon to a store near you!) Merry Christmas from all of us at Pi Towers to everybody reading – we hope your Christmas holiday is as much fun as ours is this year! A quick housekeeping note: we are not committing to the usual blog post per day this week because we’re supposed to be taking a break, but if we get bored with hanging out with our families, you’ll find something here, so keep checking. I’m off to make a sandwich out of leftovers.

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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: sneak peek

As you’ll know if you’ve been reading recently, you’ll know we’re sponsoring this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. The lectures are broadcast this year on BBC4 at 8pm on December 29, 30 and 31 – and we’ve got a sneak peek for you today. First up, here’s a Tetris clone, being played on the side of a towerblock (yes, a Raspberry Pi was involved in the making of this demo): And a mixed robot/human orchestra playing the Dr Who theme

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Orange Pi SBC tempts Raspberry Pi clone fans – LinuxGizmos

Orange Pi SBC tempts Raspberry Pi clone fans LinuxGizmos Just in time for our upcoming year-end hacker SBC roundup, Shenzhen Xunlong Software unveiled an Orange Pi board that shares a number of characteristics with the Raspberry Pi Model B+, and many more with the $50 Banana Pi RPi clone. The Orange Pi

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Naughty or Nice

I had the opportunity to play with this machine a few months ago, when Brian Corteil , a Cambridge maker-extraordinaire, brought it to a Raspberry Jam . It’s a piece of genius: the Naughty or Nice machine removes the guesswork from Santa’s assessment of the year’s behaviour, and applies the  scientific method to the problem.

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Orange Pi is an Allwinner-powered Raspberry Pi clone – Liliputing

Liliputing Orange Pi is an Allwinner-powered Raspberry Pi clone Liliputing The Raspberry Pi is a small, low-cost, low-power single board computer with an ARM processor. It's not exactly a speed demon, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation has shipped millions of units thanks to a combination of the little computer's $35 (or under …

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Penguin Lifelines

We quite frequently get asked about optimum operating temperatures for the Raspberry Pi – frequently enough that this was a very early addition to our FAQs page back in 2012: The Raspberry Pi is built from commercial chips which are qualified to different temperature ranges; the LAN9512 is specified by the manufacturers being qualified from 0°C to 70°C, while the AP is qualified from -40°C to 85°C. You may well find that the board will work outside those temperatures, but we’re not qualifying the board itself to these extremes. And we left it at that.

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Pi HomeGuard: helping people stay independent longer

Several people have mentioned the idea of using the Pi to help relatives and carers support older people in their own homes by monitoring aspects of their daily routine as well as things like the indoor temperature, but until now, we hadn’t seen anyone write up a system they’d implemented. So we were very interested when we received an email from Jamie Grant, telling us how he had used a Raspberry Pi-based home monitoring system to help him support his late mother in maintaining her independence.

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