Matt visited Google I/O yesterday, and sent back some pretty incredible pictures. This event looks more like a music festival than a tech conference. He was sending pictures and excited snippets of text back to Pi Towers all through the event, and then, when he got home, shared this video.
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Raspberry Pi with cloud vision at Google I/O
Frederick Vandenbosch has been at it again. This time, inspired by watching his kids use tablet devices, he’s built a gesture control device for his TV, which manages to be both functional and very elegant. At the core of this device is a Model A Raspberry Pi, and a Pimoroni Skywriter HAT .
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Gesture control for your TV
RealVNC have released a free alpha (testing) version of VNC for Raspberry Pi that lets you remotely view and control everything on your Pi, including Minecraft, from a different computer. It works on every generation of Raspberry Pi, including Pi Zero.
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Minecraft Pi (and more) over VNC
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
When we started thinking about the Raspberry Pi project back in 2009, our ambitions were small, and very focussed on local education. We realised we were doing something bigger than that pretty rapidly, but all the same, some of the projects we come across leave us shocked at their scale, their gravity and their importance. This is one of them
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Pocket FM: independent radio in Syria
This thing will change your life In October 2011, Raspberry Pi co-founder Jack Lang handed me a beta version of the Raspberry Pi.
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PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition 2016
Earlier this week, the brand new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 was revealed to the world, its headline feature being an 8-megapixel sensor. It’s been a few years since the original came out and the new camera is an excellent little upgrade to the existing model; you can find out all the details in our complete breakdown in Issue 45 of The MagPi magazine, which is out today.
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Learn all about the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 in The MagPi 45
Projects don’t have to be hugely complicated to make a huge difference.
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A media player for Scott
Softpedia News Lubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) Officially Released for Raspberry Pi 2 SBCs Softpedia News And now, you can have all the above on your Raspberry Pi 2 single-board computer. “The Raspberry Pi2 version of Lubuntu has been updated, of course, to Xenial Xerus 16.04 too
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The Scratch programming language, developed at MIT, has become the cornerstone of computing education at the primary level. Running the Scratch environment well was an early goal for Raspberry Pi. Since early 2013 we’ve been working with Tim Rowledge, Smalltalk hacker extraordinaire. Tim has been beavering away, improving the Scratch codebase and porting it to newer versions of the Squeak virtual machine
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Scratch performance – feel the speed!