Monthly Archives: May 2016

BBC Micro:bit: Raspberry Pi alternative is available to order in the UK from £13 – Inquirer

Inquirer BBC Micro:bit: Raspberry Pi alternative is available to order in the UK from £13 Inquirer RASPBERRY PI ALTERNATIVE the BBC Micro:bit is available for public pre-order in the UK starting at a just £12.99 for the micro-computer and £14.99 for a complete starter kit.

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Home automation with Make: and OpenHAB

The good folks at Make: have been working with open-source home automation software OpenHAB to make a touch-screen device to interact with your house. OpenHAB allows you to control objects in your house with voice commands; to monitor sensor networks; to set up rules for your devices via email or IFTTT , and a whole lot more

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Hands-on with the New Raspberry Pi camera module – ZDNet

ZDNet Hands-on with the New Raspberry Pi camera module ZDNet The Raspberry Pi Blog announced a new camera module (v2) in April. The primary reason for this was the simple fact that the sensor used in the original camera module had been end-of-lifed at the end of 2014. Raspberry Pi has been producing camera ..

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Arduino or Raspberry Pi: Which is best for beginners? – Opensource.com

Opensource.com Arduino or Raspberry Pi : Which is best for beginners? Opensource.com The Raspberry Pi community is large and growing, but you may find is easier to find particular parts for a given project for one than the other. Do you need or want any/all the built-in goodness of a Raspberry Pi , like HDMI and USB ports

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9 Raspberry Pi Projects For Your Summer Vacation – InformationWeek

9 Raspberry Pi Projects For Your Summer Vacation InformationWeek The Raspberry Pi is one of the two platforms that has changed the do-it-yourself embedded control world. (The other? Arduino.

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How I used a Raspberry Pi to connect with my grandkids – Opensource.com

Opensource.com How I used a Raspberry Pi to connect with my grandkids Opensource.com I tried a couple of the mini-displays that supposedly plug right into the Raspberry Pi . Neither were a good fit in the sense that they took more work to install and configure than I would expect a ten year old to deal with. I remembered dealing with my …

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Sabayon ARM 16.06 Linux Gets Kodi-Based Media Center Edition for Raspberry Pi 3 – Softpedia News

Softpedia News Sabayon ARM 16.06 Linux Gets Kodi-Based Media Center Edition for Raspberry Pi 3 Softpedia News Today, May 29, 2016, Sabayon ARM developer Ettore Di Giacinto announced the release of Sabayon ARM 16.06 Media Center Edition for Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi 2 SBCs. We were expecting to see today the release of Sabayon 16.06 for computers, …

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Node-RED, wiring the Raspberry Pi to the IoT – Network World

Network World Node-RED, wiring the Raspberry Pi to the IoT Network World One of the many things that Raspberry Pi -based systems are excellent for is for building Internet of Things platforms. The price is right ($35), the performance is great for the price, the input/output options are great, there's an enormous ecosystem ..

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