Mike “ Recantha ” Horne mailed me yesterday saying he’d found something that was (and I quote) “ALL KINDS OF COOL”. He also taught me a new word. This project is a paludarium: a created environment that mimics a complete terrestrial and aquatic biome, full of plants and animals that live in water and on land.
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Amazonian rainforest simulation
The Raspberry Pi Powered Minion Fart Gun Machine.
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Raspberry Pi Powered Minion Fart Gun Machine
Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Home Theater Streams Netflix, Amazon And Your Movie Collection … Geeky Gadgets The new Raspberry Pi 2 mini PC offers 6x times the performance of previous versions and is equipped with a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU supported by 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM.
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Raspberry Pi Home Theater Streams Netflix, Amazon And Your Movie Collection … – Geeky Gadgets
Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale will be familiar to many readers of this blog, whether from the excellent Raspberry Pi and Minecraft resources they’ve authored or from their work with schools, code clubs and Raspberry Jams. Now they’ve teamed up to write a fantastic new book, hot off the press this week. Adventures in Minecraft teaches young people to customise their Minecraft world with amazing structures and new gaming experiences, developing Python programming skills along the way.
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Adventures in Minecraft
Daily tech deals: Discounted Raspberry Pi Model B at Amazon ITProPortal The Raspberry Pi is an ultra-low-cost, deck-of-cards sized Linux computer, designed to promote computer science and programming in a fun way. It has revolutionised digital skills in a fun and accessible way, and now you can get the Raspberry Pi Model B
As many of you know, our very own Carrie Anne Philbin spent most of last year writing Adventures in Raspberry Pi . For some reason she keeps reminding me that, with 4.8 stars out of 5, it’s currently the highest-rated Raspberry Pi book on Amazon; I can’t imagine why . Five star, schmive star The last few chapters of the book concentrate on hardware interfacing using the Pi, and require a variety of electronic components.
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Adventures in Raspberry Pi kits in the Swag Store
If you’ve been round here for any length of time, you’ve probably heard mention of Alex Bradbury. Alex is currently polishing off his PhD thesis at the Computer Lab at the University of Cambridge, and he’s been involved with the Raspberry Pi project as a volunteer from our very early days, back when all we had was alpha development boards. Alex is responsible for building and releasing Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian OS images, and maintaining our Debian repository in his (limited) spare time
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Learning Python with Raspberry Pi
When we wrote about accelerating Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) on the Pi back in January, several people asked what sort of real-world application FFTs can have. We talked about numerical analysis, cryptography, spectrograms and software-defined radio, among other things, in the comments on that post. All the same, FFTs are something that those who don’t get excited by maths can find a bit dry, and it can be hard to find a good demonstration of FFTs that works for those of you who like to think about things visually
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Digital signal processing with teeny-tiny tap-dancers.
Ben here – Liz is currently non-functional due to her body having no idea what time it was when she arrived at the office this morning after landing back from San Francisco at the weekend. Raspberry Pi Projects is a fantastic book from Wiley, the publishers of Eben and Gareth’s Raspberry Pi User Guide and Carrie Anne’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi . It’s written by two great Pioneers: Dr.
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Raspberry Pi Projects: a big book by Andrew Robinson and Mike Cook
Man Builds K9 With Raspberry Pi Computer Doctor Who UK Webzine The compact and low-cost Raspberry Pi computer will be an integral part of the systems William is building to get his K9 operational. If you want to know more about what this clever bit of kit can do, head over to Amazon where our very own Kasterborous