Raspberry Pi owners will likely be delighted to hear that they just got a big update to the default Linux installation for their boards. This new distribution of Linux, called Raspbian, is a port of Debian that takes better advantage of the Raspberry Pi’s hardware.
Yes, those are my veins. This series of images was generated by the Christie DLP VeinViewer [PDF]. This device projects infrared light onto your hand. A camera detects areas with blood vessels near the skin because blood doesn’t reflect the IR light, but the surrounding tissue does. The resulting image is projected onto my hand by […]
If you already have your hands on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to make some LEDs blink and read the status of pushbutton switches, I want to share with you this excellent tutorial by Tedb0t. He shows you the ins and outs (so to speak) of how to use the general purpose input/output (GPIO) […]
Biz, a 12 year-old member of the Boreatton Scout Troop’s Robo Team, created this excellent Raspberry Pi enclosure out of Legos and she dutifully documented the entire build process.
If you’re waiting for delivery on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to learn what it’ll take to program it, Element-14, one of the distributors of the highly anticipated credit card-sized computer, will be broadcasting a webinar this morning that you’ll be interested in.
Nuno Alves, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Western New England University, has been experimenting with the BeagleBone and posted an excellent how-to on getting the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780 compatible LCD screens working with the embedded Linux platform.
If you’re excited about getting into embedded Linux platforms for electronics projects, Matt shows you how to get started on the BeagleBone. By the end of this how-to video, you’ll be able to blink and LED, but hopefully you’ll be inspired to to take something on that’s a little more complex.
