Luca wrote a short tutorial on how to install and use Raspbmc. ‘Raspbmc is a Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi; it already includes the fantastic XBMC media player’: The Raspberry Pi, thanks to the Videocore 4 GPU integrated in … Read more
Old Display Reverse Engineered to work with a Raspberry Pi: Dimitri, Frank, Kevin and Robin from Eectronique have sent in some details of a project that they have been working on. They had an old early 90′s LED matrix sign … Read more
Ryan Longo and Michu worked together to make this cool DIY Daft Punk helmet with Raspberry Pi - software by Michu, the idea and hardware by Ryan Longo: So I wrote a Netty based Java application using Pi4J which does exactly … Read more
The OpenWrt Release Team has announced the final Attitude Adjustment Release (12.09) OpenWrt is a famous Linux distribution for embedded devices. It was started as a replacement for the original firmware of routers and access points. On April 25, they announced the … Read more
Glyn Hudson over at OpenEnergyMonitor posted an update on the RFM12Pi Raspberry Pi wireless expansion board: Here is the latest version of the RFM12Pi Raspberry Pi wireless expansion board. Like the V1 the RFM12Pi V2 allows the Raspberry Pi to receive and … Read more
IronJungle built this Twitter robot hand and wrote a detailed explanation describing the build. Control a Robot Hand by sending a tweet to @OurCatDoor. The Robot Hand understand the following commands. If your tweet includes one these commands in the … Read more
Hertaville posted a detailed tutorial on interfacing the MCP23017 to the Raspberry Pi using C++ (SYSFS): In this blog entry I will demonstrate how to successfully interface the MCP23017 general purpose input/output (GPIO) expander from Microchip, to the Raspberry Pi over … Read more
Bit-tech is holding a Raspberry Pi case making competition: We’re offering you the chance to win your very own Rasberry Pi Model B. All you have to do is build your own case for the Model B Rev 2. Of course, … Read more
This web-enabled rain sensor will automatically turn-off an irrigation system when it rains using a Raspberry Pi: This Raspberry Pi Irrigation System Rain Bypass uses a web connected Raspberry Pi to look up rain predictions and disable the irrigation system … Read more
Give Judd (Visla breed K9) treats through emails, and get back a picture of him eating it. This is the idea behind the Raspberry Pi powered Judd treat machine. The Judd Treat Machine, as shown in the youtube video below, … Read more
The Raspberry Pi crew is in the midst of a charity auction event dubbed the Twelve Pi’s of Christmas. The R-Pi crew explains: Last year, we auctioned the very first Raspberry Pi Model Bs to come off the line to … Read more
The Raspberry Pi crew reports that the VideoCore driver code which runs on the ARM is now available under a FOSS license (3-Clause BSD to be precise. “The BCM2835 used in the Raspberry Pi is the first ARM-based multimedia SoC … Read more
Garyservin shared his latest electronics score in our “I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?” forum thread. He got a few Raspberry Pis and a Stellaris LaunchPad. Last week I received a Stellaris Launchpad and some … Read more
Giorgio designed a PIC programmer using a Raspberry Pie and a few external components. Always great to see a new way to program chips. Will the R-Pi become a universal programmer? Via Hack a Day.
Michu writes: My OpenSource LED Matrix software support the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to Scott Gibson, he wrote and it accepts data from PixelController via UDP. I wrote a little Blog post about it Via the forum.
Zuzebox writes in about Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins: There seems to be some misunderstanding about how h/w hackable to RPi is? It’s got 17 i/o lines which is only 3 less than an Arduino which has 20 i/o. It’s got … Read more
Osbock let us know about his Raspberry Pi stackable Arduino compatible board design. An Arduino is gently introduces to a Raspberry Pi header. Most will find the UART connection the easiest way to communicate between the boards. A header is … Read more
Jbeale reviewed how much current small USB WiFi routers draw. His intent is to connect them to the Raspberry Pi which can only provide 140mA over the USB port. It turns out that from Internet connectivity the routers draw under … Read more
Brian designed a CPLD expansion board for the Raspberry Pi. It features a Xilinx XC9572 CPLD, and a i2c buffer connected to Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins, and I2C port. It is designed to extend R-Pi’s GPIO, and allow for easy … Read more
We like Irongeek’s recipe for installing Metasploit on the Raspberry Pi. He presents a simple straightforward install method to install Metasploit on his board running the Debian “wheezy” public beta. For those looking for something more, you may want to … Read more
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