Muktware Raspberry Pi pays $10k to Quake 3 porting punter Inquirer “To celebrate, we offered a $10k prize to the first person to port this codebase to the BCM2835 application processor that sits at the heart of the Raspberry Pi , and to get Quake 3 (which already runs on the Pi) running on the newly open ARM driver … Quake III on a Raspberry Pi with Open Source driver Muktware Run Quake III on a Raspberry Pi with new open-source graphics driver Liliputing all 7 news articles
MCV Raspberry Pi passes 2.5 million sales, $10000 Quake 3 contest launched VG247 Raspberry Pi micro-computer sales have passed 2.5 million, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who can make Quake 3: Arena run acceptably on the device. In a post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site, co-founder
Geeky gadgets PiMSO Raspberry Pi Oscilloscope Created (video) Geeky gadgets During the Open Hardware Summit the annual conference organised by the Open Source Hardware Association for a place to showcase open hardware. Adafruit spotted a useful use for the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC to create the PiMSO 200 Msa/S
A guest post today: I’m just off a plane and can barely string a sentence together. Thanks so much to all the progressive maths teachers we met at the Wolfram conference in ew York this week; we’re looking forward to finding out what your pupils do with Mathematica from now on! Over to Adam Kemény, from photobot.co in Hove, where he spends the day making robotic photobooths. This summer Photobot.Co Ltd built what we believe to be the world’s first Twitter-triggered photobooth.
See the rest here:
Twitter-triggered photobooth
Muktware Ubuntu developers start Indiegogo campaign for Raspberry Pi Build Cluster Muktware The project pages says, “We intend to build a cluster of Raspberry Pi devices, initially configured as a build farm and tasked with compiling all the source code of Ubuntu Saucy (current stable 13.10), Precise (Current LTS 12.04) and Trusty (Next …
More:
Ubuntu developers start Indiegogo campaign for Raspberry Pi Build Cluster – Muktware
Muktware Ubuntu developers start Indiegogo campaign for Raspberry Pi Build Cluster Muktware The project pages says, “We intend to build a cluster of Raspberry Pi devices, initially configured as a build farm and tasked with compiling all the source code of Ubuntu Saucy (current stable 13.10), Precise (Current LTS 12.04) and Trusty (Next …
More:
Ubuntu developers start Indiegogo campaign for Raspberry Pi Build Cluster – Muktware
Welcome, foolish mortals. I’m with Cory Doctorow on this one: the Haunted Mansion is the best thing at the Disney parks. It’s a close-run fight with the Tower of Terror, but for me, the Haunted Mansion comes out on top every time
Continued here:
DIY Haunted Mansion portrait
Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton: Open Source Lessons from Wayland Linux.com (blog) In less than two years the Raspberry Pi has sold more than 1 million units and become widely used and adored among DIY hackers and embedded professionals alike. It began in 2006 as a modest idea to provide a low-cost educational computer for students
On the road back from Wales this weekend, we listened to Liz’s Playlist for Driving Long Distances.
Link:
Pi synthesisers
Liz: We’ve had some really interesting conversations this year with visually impaired users of the Raspberry Pi. Accessibility on the Pi is something the community’s been working on since we launched; Michael Ray started a Raspberry-vi (vi stands for visually impaired) mailing list which has been running for a while now, and the group behind it has made some serious advancements in accessibility on the Pi. Jason Miller mailed me to let me know he had Emacs/Emacspeak working, and stable
See original here:
Raspberry-VI: accessibility for visually impaired Pi users