Note: the Pi Towers team have peeled away from their desks to spend time with their families over the festive season, and this blog will be quiet for a while as a result. We’ll be back in the New Year with a bushel of amazing projects, awesome resources, and much merriment and fun times. Happy holidays to all! Now back to the matter at hand.
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Thank you for my new Raspberry Pi, Santa! What next?
Last month, we shared the news that Riot Games is supporting digital literacy by matching 25% of sales of Championship Ashe and Championship Ward to create a charity fund that will benefit the Raspberry Pi Foundation and two other charities.
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Join us for an evening of League of Legends
If you’ve yet to hear about RetroPie , how’s it going living under that rock? RetroPie, for the few who are unfamiliar, allows users to play retro video games on their Raspberry Pi or PC
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Five(ish) awesome RetroPie builds
RetroPie builds take up approximately 40% of my daily project searching. Whether it’s across social media, within the depths of YouTube, littering my inbox, or shared across office messaging, I see RetroPie everywhere
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Pi Cart: RetroPie in a NES Cartridge
Barely a month slips by at the moment without my ordering some new flat-packed goodies from IKEA. Our family, still gradually settling into the house we moved into just before our eldest was born, goes about its book-savouring, toy-categorising, craft-supply-hoarding life within a sturdy framework of TROFAST, EKBY and BESTÅ. The really great thing is that much of this furniture lends itself to modification, and spannerspencer ‘s PIK3A Gaming Table, using a Raspberry Pi and the iconic LACK side table, is a wonderful example
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A Raspberry Pi + IKEA arcade table to make yourself
3ders.org (blog) Make your own PiGRRL 2: Adafruit's new Raspberry Pi 2 enabled handheld gaming console 3ders.org (blog) Adafruit has released instructions as well as the necessary files and components to build a new edition of their Raspberry Pi Game Boy.
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Make your own PiGRRL 2: Adafruit’s new Raspberry Pi 2 enabled handheld gaming console – 3ders.org (blog)
Lifehacker Build a Super-Powered Mobile Gaming Device with a Raspberry Pi 2 Lifehacker The Raspberry Pi makes an excellent game system already, but it's not exactly mobile.
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Build a Super-Powered Mobile Gaming Device with a Raspberry Pi 2 – Lifehacker
Hands-On With RecalBox, an Awesome Raspberry Pi OS DZone News In my quest to find the perfect OS for my Raspberry Pi , I discovered RecalBox, an OS that combines the gaming potential of EmulationStation with the HTPC capabilities of Kodi. Check out my hands-on look at RecalBox, which includes pros and cons
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Hands-On With RecalBox, an Awesome Raspberry Pi OS – DZone News
Is it a guitar that’s also a Game Boy, or a Game Boy that’s also a guitar?
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Guitar boy
Why spend hundreds of quid on a Steam Machine when you can do exactly the same thing with a humble Raspberry Pi? (The B+ is available for $25, which is about £16, at RS Components at the moment, if you’re really on a budget.) Here are the Possibly Unsafe guys to walk you through setup. I’ve swiped the instructions below from their YouTube channel: Setup: You’ll first need to install the latest Rasbian from here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ Next download Limelight Embedded.
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Stream PC games to your TV