Raspberry Pi Keeps Wowing Us Even Two Years After Launch Singularity Hub With the Raspberry Pi , a programmable credit card-sized computer, the British computer scientists sought to rekindle garage innovation.
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Some of you will be aware that we’ve been working on a new, more responsive and more modern desktop experience for the Raspberry Pi. We thought you might like an update on where we are with the project. The chip at the heart of the Raspberry Pi, BCM2835, contains an extremely powerful and flexible hardware video scaler (HVS), which can be used to assemble a stack of windows on the fly for output to the screen
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Preview the upcoming Maynard desktop
West Sussex County Times Horsham primary school win Raspberry PI competition West Sussex County Times A Governor led initiative started in October 2013 has seen seven Year 5 pupils from St Mary's School win the £1000 prized national finals of PA Consulting's Raspberry PI competition held at the London Science Museum on April 2nd. Over 150 schools from
International Business Times UK GoPiGo: Turn Your Raspberry Pi into a Fully Functioning Robot International Business Times UK If you've always wanted a robot of your own (and come on, who hasn't?), then a new Kickstarter campaign for a robot kit powered by the Raspberry Pi £30 computer would be right up your street. Dexter Industries is a Virginia-based company that is …
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International Business Times UK GoPiGo: Turn Your Raspberry Pi into Fully Functioning Robot International Business Times UK If you've always wanted a robot of your own (and come on, who hasn't?), then a new Kickstarter campaign for a robot kit powered by the Raspberry Pi £30 computer would be right up your street.
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Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastav are second-year students at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Goa. After a Raspberry Pi workshop they decided they wanted to do something more meaningful than just flash LEDs on and off, and set this month’s PyCon in Montreal as their deadline. Aman Srivastav and Sanskriti Dawle They ended up producing something really special.
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Mudra: a Braille dicta-teacher
ReadWrite How Arduino And Raspberry Pi Can Enhance Your Connected Home ReadWrite Arduino, a microcontroller board, and Raspberry Pi , a fully functional mini-computer, are both cheap solutions for harnessing the Internet of Things at home. Unlike your regular computer, both devices are very good at reading the world around them. and more
New Raspberry Pi 2.8-inch and 4.3-inch LCD kits surface TweakTown DIY and hacker types that like working on their own projects will be glad to hear that RS Components has a couple new LCD kits that are available for Raspberry pi -based projects.
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Roll Your Own VPN with a Raspberry Pi and OpenVPN Lifehacker A VPN or Virtual Private Network secures your internet connection from prying eyes and is critical for many of us (especially when traveling or using unsecured wireless networks).
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A couple of books projects for you today. One is simple, practical and of great use to the visually-impaired. The other is over-complicated, and a little bit nuts; nonetheless, we think it’s rather wonderful; and actually kind of useful if you’ve got a lot of patience.
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Books, the digitising and text-to-speechifying thereof