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Hackspace security system

NESIT is the New England Society of Information and Technology in Connecticut, and they have a made a security system for their hackspace that gives us terrible feelings of envy. Their old RFID door lock, powered by an Arduino, was getting old and came bundled with some problems: it didn’t allow for easy modifications to the database of users (the old setup wrote user information straight to the Arduino’s eeprom), couldn’t output video, and would have been expensive to hook up to the network; running its server all the time would have cost about $200 in electricity over a year.

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Use your desktop or laptop screen and keyboard with your Pi

Meltwater has come up with a nice little trick which allows you to use your laptop or desktop’s display and keyboard as the display and keyboard for your Pi. You won’t need to do any soldering or to buy any special equipment: all you need is a network cable. You’ll be using the network port to do this, so if you were relying on it to get internet connectivity you’ll need a wireless dongle too, but using another device’s keyboard and display means that you can cut right down on the kit you need to carry around if you’re bringing your Pi somewhere to show off your latest project

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Two chances to win a Raspberry Pi at Embedded World 2013 with XJTAG – Cambridge Network

Cambridge Network Two chances to win a Raspberry Pi at Embedded World 2013 with XJTAG Cambridge Network Visit the XJTAG stand 4-347 at Embedded World (26-28 February; Nuremberg,Germany) and guess the code to 'crack the safe' and win yourself a Raspberry Pi . Or – if you can't wait that long – enter the online competition now and use the reference code …

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CIOL Network sites – PC Quest

CIOL Network sites PC Quest As tasty as it sounds, Raspberry Pi might not digest well, as it is a tiny credit-card sized computer with a SoC (System on chip) running an ARM11 processor running at 700 MHz and a Videcore 4 GPU. On the motherboard, there are also crucial ports such …

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