Monthly Archives: April 2015

The Wheel of (BASIC) Excuses

Back in the day, over at IEEE Spectrum magazine , the editorial elves had a sheet of paper stuck on a wall, with a spinning arm which pointed to any number of plausible excuses for not having handed in homework an article in time. The offices were renovated last year, and Stephen Cass thought that it was time to update the paper version, bringing it kicking and screaming into the 1980s with a Raspberry Pi-based BASIC system. You can’t fit many excuses on wheel drawn on a sheet of paper.

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Why Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing: ‘I wanted to beat my friend at … – Techworld.com

Why Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing: 'I wanted to beat my friend at … Techworld.com Why Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing: 'I wanted to beat my friend at programming'.

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Bridge Shield Combines Raspberry Pi And Arduino UNO Together (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Bridge Shield Combines Raspberry Pi And Arduino UNO Together (video) Geeky Gadgets Anyone who enjoys building projects using the Arduino platform and the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC, are sure to be interested in this new concept called the Bridge Shield.

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Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing because ‘I wanted to beat my friend … – Techworld.com

Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing because 'I wanted to beat my friend … Techworld.com Raspberry Pi founder fell into computing because 'I wanted to beat my friend at programming'. Techworld talks to Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton about skills shortages, his first brush with computing and his favourite ways in which hobbyists are using ..

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The Raspberry Pi Action Camera – Hackaday

The Raspberry Pi Action Camera Hackaday [Connor] wanted a cheaper, open-source action camera and decided to build one with the Raspberry Pi . [Connor]'s Pi action cam is built around the Raspberry Pi Model A+ and the Pi camera.

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Raspberry Pi Owners, Check Your TV Supports CEC Before You Spend – Lifehacker Australia

Lifehacker Australia Raspberry Pi Owners, Check Your TV Supports CEC Before You Spend Lifehacker Australia If you're new to the world of compact media centres such as the Raspberry Pi , it's easy to get caught up in all the bits and bobs you need to get it set up. Of course, having the required cables — power, HDMI, USB, etc — is mandatory, but before you ..

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Oracle giving away 1000 Raspberry Pi computers to students – TechRadar

TechRadar Oracle giving away 1000 Raspberry Pi computers to students TechRadar Oracle and the Raspberry Pi Foundation want to encourage students to take up coding and close the alarming skills gap that is afflicting the IT sector globally through a new program. The Oracle Academy Raspberry Pi Weather Station initiative for …

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Plotter made from scrap computer parts

Our old friend HomoFaciens (who has the best voice of any Raspberry Pi user we’ve met) has another fantastic piece of work to share. He’s recycled old optical drives for their stepper motors, and made a tiny plotter, controlled over WiFi, from those motors, a servo, four H-bridges and a Raspberry Pi.

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SECO srl: UDOO Neo = Raspberry Pi + Arduino + WiFi + BT 4.0 + Sensors gets … – Business Wire (press release)

ElectronicsWeekly.com SECO srl: UDOO Neo = Raspberry Pi + Arduino + WiFi + BT 4.0 + Sensors gets …

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