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3D parametric plotter

This video from  Benedek93 is a little slow to get going, but it’s well worth watching all the way through for a really tight demonstration of what you can achieve with OpenGL ES on the Pi.  Benedek says: Recently I’ve started going through a tutorial for modern OpenGL programming again (I can recommend it: http://arcsynthesis.org/gltut/  ), and on the way I decided to re-do that function plotter program I have showed off in one of my videos (“OpenGL Shaders and Shadow Maps”). First I wrote it using the old, fixed-pipeline OpenGL specification so that I could run it on my laptop which didn’t support the newer versions.

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Abattoir! A topical Scratch game.

Martin O’Hanlon from Stuff About Code (you might recall Thursday’s post about his adventures in Minecraft ) has written a Scratch game that made us laugh. Hard. Wherever you are in the world, you’ve probably heard something about the recent horsemeat adulteration scandal in Europe, where cheap beef mince products like lasagna and frozen burgers turned out to be anything up to 100% horse

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The view from Gordon’s helmet

Liz: if you haven’t entered our contest to win a pre-production camera board, have a look at the post explaining what you’ll need to do . And if you’re looking for inspiration, here’s a guest post from Gordon, our Head of Software, about a mini-HD camera project he worked on at home using the prototype boards we showed the BBC back in 2011.

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The view from Gordon’s helmet

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Hacking the Minecraft world

If you’re a Minecraft fan and a Pi owner, you’ve probably already downloaded a copy of Minecraft: Pi Edition . But are you getting the most out of the fact that you can modify the world with code in-game? If you’re not sure where to start, or if you’re looking for ideas (sometimes being given a blank canvas can be lousy for getting the brain sparking), Martin O’Hanlon at the marvellous has several tutorials on Minecraft: Pi Edition, from installing the game to using the Minecraft API to build wonderful things, like magical bridges that appear where’er you walk, games of hide and seek, and in-game analogue clocks.

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Recantha’s only gone and made a tricorder.

I’ve been waiting for…ooh, just over a year, for someone to do this. Recantha , an old hand here in the comments and on the forums, has built a tricorder

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Webcast – Raspberry Jamboree LIVE

Alan O’Donohoe writes: You may already know that only 6 months ago, I set up this  Raspberry Jam network called to help teachers, parents, childen and learners of all ages to understand the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi computer. In a short space of a few months, this has spread to 40 groups around the UK and many more around the World

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Win a pre-production camera board!

We’ve sent the first camera boards to production, and we’re expecting to be able to start selling them some time in April. And we’ve now got several pre-production cameras in the office that we’re testing and tweaking and tuning so the software will be absolutely tickety-boo when you come to buy one. Gordon is in charge of things camera, and he’s got ten boards to give away.

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Win a pre-production camera board!

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Blue Pi!

To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there’s something really handsome about that blue. They come with a certificate of authenticity signed by Eben and a matching blue case from One Nine Design in Wales; and blue, as drinkers of Slush Puppy should be aware, is the canonical colour of raspberry flavouring

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