Raspberry Pi Boards and Starter Kits Now Available in the Maker Shed!
Are you bummed you couldn’t get to Maker Faire New York to get a Raspberry Pi? Don’t fret, they are now available online in the Maker Shed!
Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi is an incredibly versatile microcomputer that is perfect for any kind of DIY projects. From programming robots to building home automation systems, there are so many possibilities when it comes to designing creative and innovative raspberry pi projects. With its powerful yet low-cost hardware, plus plenty of open source software available, raspberry pi has become one of the most popular tinkering tools out there. But what kinds of projects can you make with this small but mighty computer? Read on for ideas and tutorials that will shake up your next project idea or two!
Adafruit’s WebIDE Is Live and Available
The Adafruit team has been hard at work on a new programming tool for the Raspberry Pi: WebIDE. It launched today and is live and available. This is similar to the Beaglebone’s Cloud9 IDE/Node.JS/Bonescript solution, but seems friendlier; point your web browser at the Pi and start programming (well, almost). We finally have the Raspberry […]
Adafruit Offers Sneak Peek at Raspberry Pi WebIDE
Adafruit’s new WebIDE will let you code and run programs for your Raspberry Pi from a web browser on any computer.
Baking Pi: Free Course in Basic “Bare Metal” Raspberry Pi Development
Bare metal programming is the practice of writing code for the CPU without an operating system (like Linux) on board. In this online course from Alex Chadwick of the University of Cambridge Computer Lab, you can learn how to use assembly code to write your own OS for the Raspberry Pi.
Adafruit’s Custom Raspberry Pi Distro Gets an Upgrade
There are some great features packed into Adafruit’s latest update to Occidentalis, their custom Raspberry Pi distro.
Musical Hacks For Raspberry Pi
Peter Kirn writes about the first wave of musical hacks for Raspberry Pi over at Create Digital Music: Apple may have started the conversation about the “post-PC” age. But part of what this means is that a “computer” doesn’t necessarily have to be something costing hundreds of dollars, in a conventional desktop or laptop form […]
Two-Way USB Communication Between iPhone and Raspberry Pi (and BeagleBone)
Alasdair Allan (author of iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino) and David House spent the weekend getting their iPhones to talk to their BeagleBones and Raspberry Pis over PeerTalk. Alasdair writes: Following up on the work I was doing last night connecting the iPhone to the BeagleBone using PeerTalk. I’ve now reached the blinking LED stage, […]