Here’s something rather special, which should resonate with those of you over a certain age . Star Fox was a Nintendo game for the SNES, released back in 1993 with fast, 3D gameplay – the player travels at high speed along a bounded path, avoiding and shooting obstacles and enemies, while picking up power-ups. Those obstacles were filled 3D polygons, which was very unusual at the time (and hard to render)
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PiFox: bare-metal ARM assembly language Star Fox
A quick post today: I’m in a tearing hurry trying to get our display for today’s UK Technology Industry reception at Buckingham Palace ready, in the face a few awkwardnesses. We’ve got an entire education team and half an engineering team that’s off sick with something we’re calling the Raspberry Flu, and an SD card that corrupted when someone who will not be named yanked the power cable at an awkward moment
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James Bond villain-style alarm clock for the deaf
Linux Video of the Week: 40-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer Linux.com (blog) Guill, a recent graduate of the masters in computer science and electrical engineering program at the University of Texas in Dallas, built the 40-node Raspberry Pi cluster for distributed software testing. In addition to a list of technical …
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Linux Video of the Week: 40-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer – Linux.com (blog)
A few days ago, we pushed out some more documentation for the forthcoming Compute Module and Compute Module IO Board, which together make up the Compute Module Development Kit. This new documentation covers power supply and sequencing requirements, temperature limits, and the process for writing an operating system image onto a module; and provides a summary of the various interfaces available on the module edge connector.
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More Compute Module docs, and an interview with James
A quick poll of the office reveals that none of us knows anybody with a smart watch. But we know you’re out there, smart watch owners: this one’s for you. (Let us know in the comments if you really exist: Gordon says he thinks there are only about five of you
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PebblyPi smart doorbell
We put this video up on our various social media sites earlier in the week (here’s our Facebook page , if you’re not familiar with it yet: we’re also on G+ and Twitter if you’d like to chat), but so many of you have emailed me about it since then that I’m giving it a spot here, too.
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Living with lag
VIDEO: Linux engineer builds Raspberry Pi 'PiPhone' PCR-online.biz The components consist of a 2.8-inch 320×420 TFT LCD screen, a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module for inserting a standard SIM, a 2,500mAh battery, and a Raspberry Pi Model B. The mini device runs on custom software, which brings a dial pad to the PiPhone's
Liz: Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, has been pointing the camera board at things, looking at dots on a screen, and cackling a lot over the last couple of weeks. We asked him what he was doing, so he wrote this for me
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Vectors from coarse motion estimation
At the end of February, Broadcom announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack for the BCM21553 cellphone chip. 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, rather on the closed-source VPU driver. Our hope was that the ported driver would be a helpful reference for anyone working on a Mesa / Gallium3D driver for VideoCore IV
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Quake III bounty: we have a winner!
This is a work-in-progress from Ludwig Boltzmann. And we love it
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Home automation. For your Enterprise-class starship.