With Raspberry Pi projects using home assistant services such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home becoming more and more popular, we invited Raspberry Pi maker Matt ‘ Raspberry Pi Spy ‘ Hawkins to write a guest post about his latest project, the Pi Spy Alexa Skill.
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Raspberry Pi Spy’s Alexa Skill
Bob Herzberg, BMO builder and blogger at BYOBMO.com , fills us in on the whys and hows and even the Pen Wards of creating interactive Adventure Time BMO props with the Raspberry Pi. A Conversation With BMO A conversation with BMO showing off some voice recognition capabilities. There is no interaction for BMO’s responses other than voice commands.
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I am Beemo, a little living boy: Adventure Time prop build
Today, we are launching the first Debian Stretch release of the Raspberry Pi Desktop for PCs and Macs, and we’re also releasing the latest version of Raspbian Stretch for your Pi. For PCs and Macs When we released our custom desktop environment on Debian for PCs and Macs last year , we were slightly taken aback by how popular it turned out to be. We really only created it as a result of one of those “Wouldn’t it be cool if…” conversations we sometimes have in the office, so we were delighted by the Pi community’s reaction
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Stretch for PCs and Macs, and a Raspbian update
An ever-growing number of companies take advantage of Raspberry Pi technology and use our boards as part of their end products. Raspberry Pis are now essential components of everything from washing machines to underwater exploration vehicles. We love seeing these commercial applications, and are committed to helping bring Raspberry Pi-powered products to market
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Introducing the Raspberry Pi Integrator Programme
Today we’ve released another update to the Raspbian desktop. In addition to the usual small tweaks and bug fixes, the big new changes are the inclusion of an offline version of Scratch 2.0, and of Thonny (a user-friendly IDE for Python which is excellent for beginners)
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A Raspbian desktop update with some new programming tools
We use Slack all the time at Pi Towers. Granted, we often use it for sharing animated cat GIFs and the latest hacks for the office coffee machine, but we are definitely big fans.
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Slack on the Commodore 64 thanks to Raspberry Pi
Everybody loves cake, right? Cakes have layers. Mmm….
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PiBakery – foolproof custom Raspbian setup
This column is from The MagPi issue 48 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet .
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Software, the unsung hero