SlashGear PiPad: the Raspberry Pi -powered tablet crafted from wood Wired.co.uk Why buy a generic plastic Android tablet when you have the option of crafting a swish slate customised to your own particular tastes and needs? So wondered Michael Castor as he set out on his mission to build a Raspberry Pi -powered tablet.
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LadyAda from Adafruit is one of my very favourite people. We have a tradition of spending at least one evening eating Korean barbecue whenever I visit New York. We have told each other many secrets over bowls of fizzy fermented rice beverage, posed for photographs in front of plastic meats, been filmed pointing at electronics for the New York Times, and behaved very badly together in Pinkberry in September
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Touchscreen point-and-shoot, from Adafruit
Hendrix to Host 2014 Raspberry Pi Bake-Off Hendrix College Events and News Like Tweet InShare PlusOne. CONWAY, Ark. (January 14, 2014) – Hendrix College will host the 2014 Raspberry Pi Bake-Off on Friday, March 14 in the Student Life and Technology Center to showcase projects built using the Raspberry Pi learning computer.
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Hendrix to Host 2014 Raspberry Pi Bake-Off – Hendrix College Events and News
Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi 4MB F-RAMDisk Offers Super Fast Read/Write Speeds Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi users looking for a faster way to read and write files and data within their Raspberry Pi mini PC system might be interested in new Raspberry Pi 4MB F-RAMDisk which has been created by Shawn Quick. The Raspberry Pi 4MB F-RAMDisk allows
SlashGear Meet PiPad, the $350 DIY Raspberry Pi tablet BGR The PiPad is the name Michael Castor gave to the Raspberry Pi wood and carbon fiber tablet he built after gathering all the necessary parts. “It seems that every day a manufacturer comes out with a new tablet computer. Thinner, lighter, faster, but it …
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Super Mario World Exploited By Raspberry Pi Robot, Programs New Games The Escapist During a session of tool-assisted speedruns, an awesome new glitch was demonstrated which allowed a Raspberry Pi -powered robot to program a game of Pong and Snake into a factory-official cartridge of Super Mario World.
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SlashGear Bloke hews plywood Raspberry Pi tablet Register It's a tip of the hat today to Michael Castor, who caught our eye with his attractive fusion of plywood, carbon fibre and Raspberry Pi , dubbed the “PiPad”.
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Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi BADGEr ePaper Weather Station Geeky gadgets The BADGEr ePaper Weather Station uses the Raspberry Pi to show the current date, sunrise time, sunset time, weather forecast, chance of precipitation, temperature (high) and temperature (low). Raspberry Pi BADGEr ePaper Weather Station. So if you have
Over the last year, we’ve seen big improvements in Scratch performance on the Pi. To date these have resulted from tweaks to the Scratch codebase and the addition of ARMv6-optimized blitting routines to the Squeak Smalltalk VM on which it runs
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Test Tim’s NuScratch alpha
PiPad – A Tablet With a Raspberry Pi Heart Good E-Reader (blog) The Raspberry Pi has been subjected to all sorts of computing incarnations except perhaps a tablet device. That has been taken care of with the PiPad which is the handiwork of one Michael Castor who has a passion for devices and loves tinkering with them
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