Bilingual R2D2

Sadly, I don’t have any more information on this project besides what you can see in the video. Which is a grave shame, ‘cos it’s brilliant. Greensheller, who is somewhere in China, has made his girlfriend an interactive, multilingual, face-recognising R2D2 for her birthday, using a Pi and some other off-the-shelf electronics

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Web IDE The Easiest Way To Program Raspberry Pi – iProgrammer

Web IDE The Easiest Way To Program Raspberry Pi iProgrammer The Raspberry Pi Web IDE, which Adafruit announced a few weeks ago, is up and running. and there is an easy-to-watch video to get you started with using it. With over a million sold, Raspberry Pi must be doing something right, but for non-Linux users ..

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Chameleon turns your Raspberry Pi into a retro gaming arcade – Geek

Geek Chameleon turns your Raspberry Pi into a retro gaming arcade Geek The Raspberry Pi has already proven itself to be a very capable little and cheap PC. It runs Linux, can be used for development, surfing the web, and playing games

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Raspberry Pi creator says sequel unlikely in 2013 – BGR

ZDNet Raspberry Pi creator says sequel unlikely in 2013 BGR Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux-based computer is a runaway success. Creator Eben Upton told ZDNet in a recent interview that his team thought they would sell 1,000 units when they were designing the mini PC, but sales have now topped 700,000. ”We honestly ..

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Raspbian Chameleon remix

This is one for you retro gamers: a Raspbian remix from Carles Oriol that turns your Pi into a whole suitcase-full of emulated hardware, from the Spectrum to a MAME cabinet, via the Oric-1, Atari 2600, Apple II and lots of other stuff besides. Carles Oriol popped up briefly on Twitter earlier in the week to post this video, then vanished before I was able to get him to point me at a disk image

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Raspberry Pi creator doesn’t expect a sequel in 2013 – Engadget

Raspberry Pi creator doesn't expect a sequel in 2013 Engadget If you were hoping for a full-fledged Raspberry Pi sequel this year, you'll have to keep waiting. Designer Eben Upton tells ZDNet that, while there should eventually be a replacement, he doesn't expect one in 2013. Both software tweaks and upgrades …

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Hardware Hacks: Raspberry Pi arcade, Radio-4-Matic, PirateBox – The H

Hardware Hacks: Raspberry Pi arcade, Radio-4-Matic, PirateBox The H Raspberry Pi micro arcade – An enterprising hacker has posted plans to build a tiny MAME-powered arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi and a 2.4″ LCD screen. The micro arcade even has a small OLED display that functions like the marquee on top of an …

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Focus-stacking with Raspberry Pi for macro photography

Dave Hunt is on a bit of a roll at the moment. Not content with having engineered the water droplet photography setup behind the prettiest post we’ve featured here, he’s also been working with the Pi and an home-made macro rail for sharper macro photographs without all that woolly depth of field.

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ZDNet interview

We’ve been looking forward to the publication of this interview. Nick Heath, a journalist we really enjoy talking to (largely because he’s not shy about asking awkward questions, which keeps us on our toes) spent a couple of hours with Eben at the factory last year

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