Want to build this project?View Parts Abstract: I recently acquired a Motorola Atrix Lapdock and tried to get it working with my RasPi. Unfortunately, something was wrong with the micro HDMI cable, specifically some cheap HDMI cables...
www.youtube.com/watch The Raspberry Pi has been creating quite the stir within the engineering communities since the beginning of its production in February earlier this year. Once released, many projects began to appear over the internet from t...
I have created a new blog devoted to covering my experiences interfacing the Raspberry Pi to various devices. http://raspberrypihobbyist.blogspot.com/ While I am an experienced hobbyist and professional, the blog is targeted at the b...
The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new Raspbian SD card image yesterday with some interesting new features including dynamic overclocking. I had the July Raspbian image on an SD card which I already setup with everything I need to do a demo...
Want to build this project?View Parts My last post showed how I assembled a portable Pi using a 3.5" composite LCD. Well, I've got a better option this time around, the Motorola Atrix lapdock!The Atrix lapdock was originally intended for M...
Today we have announced a deal to manufacture the Raspberry Pi in the UK, something that many people have been asking for on the forums and in the media. So it is great to be working with Sony UK Technology Centre in Pencoed, Wales to bring this to a...
(via Raspberry Pi) Very significant update for Raspberry Pi users! As I am sure most of you were aware, until now, Raspberry Pi has not supported M-PEG2 or VC-1 standard video, and although the hardware has always been capable of H.264 encoding ...
Adafruit recently released their own Raspberry Pi image, Occidentalis v0.1:This is our first distro, Occidentalis v0.1. Rubus occidentalis is the black raspberry. It is derived from Raspbian Wheezy July 15We have made a few key changes to...
My guide to opening your home Pi-based web server up to the world using Dynamic DNS. Might be useful to someone - I was trying to get the Raspcontrol project page on my Pi up so I can reboot from elsewhere! I use ddclient and dnsdynamic.org to d...
Want to build this project?View Parts In my previous post, I showed how to add a real-time clock (RTC) to Raspberry Pi via the I2C bus. Another device that is simple to interface with the Raspberry Pi via the I2C bus is the TMP102 tempera...
Just published a new blog post bringing together everything I've found about determining the Pi's IP at boot time and reporting it vocally over the 3.5" jack using the Festival text-to-speech package.. http://raspberrypipod.blogspot.co.uk/2012/0...
Want to build this project?View Parts UPDATE: Adafruit shows how to interace with the DS1307 RTC without a level converter in their Adding a Real Time Clock to Raspberry Pi tutorial Yesterday, I described how to access the Raspberry Pi'...
Want to build this project?View Parts The serial console is a convenient way to interact with the Raspberry Pi when a display isn't handy. From the pinout on the eLinux wiki, I can see that the serial port (aka UART) on the Pi is on GP...
Pi Cobbler for the Raspberry Pi (via adafruit) Perfect example of finding a demand and filling it. The Raspberry Pi makes building your own computing projects conveniently simple and has the potential for endless applications. Among its gre...
I've been wanting a small portable display for the Pi. Unfortunately, portable HDMI displays are quite expensive, and the DSI connector is not an option currently as far as I know. Then I realized that there a large number of small compos...
Howdy, I had been using the current official Debian "squeeze" image (debian6-19-04-2012) for awhile now, so I decided to try out some of the newer images last weekend. First off, I tried out the Debian "Wheezy" Beta ima...
