Archive for the ‘Raspberry Pi’ Category
I’ve modified my automated build system for OpenELEC so that it now creates RPi2 builds in addition to regular old RPi builds – https://resources.pichimney.com/OpenELEC/dev_builds/?C=M;O=D
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Tags: openelec, Raspberry Pi, RPi
Cheap HDMI to VGA adaptor
When Paul Simmonds showed up to speak at the privacy and security track I hosted at QCon London last week he brought a Chromebook. After my own experiences using a Chromebook for a presentation my first thought was ‘this isn’t going to end well'[1]. The first issue was connecting to the ubiquitous VGA connector for the […]
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Tags: adaptor, Chromebook, converter, HDMI, Raspberry Pi, RPi, VGA
Update (13 Mar 2014) – this presentation is also available on YouTube I did a presentation at the open source hardware users group (OSHUG) last night. Click to the second slide to get the TL;DR version: With more time I’d like to get some quantitative material on the memory footprint of various cipher suites and […]
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Tags: arduino, ARM, BeagleBone, encryption, IPSEC, keys, Raspberry Pi, RPi, security, SSH, SSL, tls
Pi Lite with Node-RED
This was trivially easy, but it’s a nice example of how simple integration is now becoming due to the strength of various open source communities. Pi-LITE The Pi Lite is an array of lots of LEDs (126 in a 9×14 matrix to be exact). I bought a pair of them during the initial Kickstarter campaign. […]
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Tags: node, Node-RED, node.js, PI, Pi-Lite, Raspberry Pi, raspbian, RPi, serial, serialport, ttyAMA0
Now that OpenELEC 3.2 is out the dev team are moving to 3.3 (which will eventually become stable as 3.4). The dev team have asked me to wait until things are more stable (for around 4 weeks) before doing more builds from the master branch. The dev team have also made a decision to remove […]
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Tags: build, dev, openelec, Raspberry Pi, RPi
I spent Saturday manning the @BrightonPi stand at Brighton Mini Maker Faire showing off various projects with Gareth James. It was great fun, and I really enjoyed talking to people about the potential of the Raspberry Pi. There were a few questions that got asked a lot… hence this post. The projects I was showing off […]
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Tags: BMMF, Brighton, ladder board, maker faire, MAME, Raspberry Pi, RPi, Targ, wifi
Pi Pandora over the Pond
A friend of mine recently returned from working in the US for 3 years, where he’d got to like listening to Internet radio using Pandora. He wanted to get things set up so that he could listen to Pandora on his kitchen stereo. Challenge #1 – be in the US Pandora uses IP geolocation to […]
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Tags: OpenVPN, Pandora, proxy, Raspberry Pi, RPi, SSH, tunnel
Review – BeagleBone Black
I first came across the BeagleBone when Roger Monk presented at OSHUG #18 in April 2012. It was easy at the time to write it off as too expensive and too underpowered – the Raspberry Pi was finally shipping and the lucky first 2000 already had their $35 computers whilst the rest of us waited for […]
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Tags: BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, comparison, GPIO, physical compute, projects, Raspberry Pi, raspbian, review, Ubuntu
Shiva Iyer at Packt Publishing kindly sent me a review copy of Instant OpenELEC Starter. It’s an ebook with a list price of £5.99, and I was able to download .pdf and .mobi versions (with an .epub option too). It’s also available from Amazon as a paperback (£12.99) and for Kindle (£6.17). The book is […]
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Tags: ebook, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, review, RPi, XBMC
OpenELEC dev builds
Over the past week or so my automated build engine for OpenELEC on the Raspberry Pi hasn’t been working. XBMC has grown to a point where it will no longer build on a machine with 1GB RAM. Normal services has now been resumed, as the good people at GreenQloud kindly increased my VM from t1.milli […]
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Tags: cloud, GreenQloud, iaas, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, XBMC
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