Posts Tagged ‘Raspberry Pi’
OpenELEC 3.0 Released
OpenELEC 3.0.0 has been released, which means that this popular distribution for XBMC is now in a stable version on Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi downloads for an SD card image file (.img.zip) and a copy of the release bundle (.tar.bz2) are on the Pi Chimney resources site. I’ve done some tidying up on the site, […]
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Tags: 3.0, 3.0.0, download, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, release, RPi, stable, XBMC
I first came across GreenQloud at GigaOm Structure Europe last year. It’s a cloud service based in Iceland that is powered entirely from renewable energy. I bumped into Eiki and Bala again last week at London CloudCamp, and gave them my sob story about hosting. They’ve very kindly offered to provide free hosting for my […]
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Tags: bandwidth, GreenCloud, hosting, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi
After bringing my Nanode based temperature sensor back to life I thought about some other projects that I might do. One was simply to add an external sensor to the Nanode project, and another was to turn my slow cooker into a sous vide water bath (along the lines of ‘Sous Vader‘). Those projects would need […]
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Tags: 18B20, 1wire, DS18B20, kernel, modprobe, module, onewire, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, sensor, temperature, thermometer, w1-gpio, w1-therm
OpenELEC 3.0 RC2
The second release candidate for OpenELEC 3.0 (featuring XBMC 12 ‘Frodo’) is now available (official announcement). There have been a flurry of changes over the past few weeks (over 275 by my count), but the OpenELEC team are saying that this will be one of the final release candidates before 3.0 final. If you’d like […]
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Tags: 3.0, file, Frodo, howto, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RC2, release, RPi, SD card, update, upgrade, XBMC
In earlier posts of this series I’ve looked at ladder board and Quick2Wire’s boards. This post is about the official expansion project board for the Raspberry Pi, named after its creator Gert van Loo, the Gertboard. Construction Like the other boards I’ve looked at Gertboard comes as a kit of parts. The two things that […]
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Tags: ADC, DAC, dev board, Gertboard, GPIO, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SMT, soldering, surface mount
In part 1 of this series I looked at ladder board, and in the next part I plan to review the Gertboard. This post is about Quick2Wire‘s boards, where I’ve been fortunate enough to try out some alpha and beta samples. Quick2Wire concept There’s an interface board that connects to the general purpose input output […]
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Tags: ADC, API, DAC, dev board, github, GPIO, I2C, PCF8591, python, Quick2Wire, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, soldering, Wiring Pi
The Quick version Get OpenELEC Download an SD Card image file from resources.pichimney.com (latest version at the time of writing is RC1 – 2.99.1). Install OpenELEC Unzip the image file and burn it onto a (1GB or bigger) SD card using Win32DiskImager (for Windows) or dd (for Mac or Linux). Plug Everything in Plug the […]
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Tags: AirPlay, image, iOS, iPad, iphone, ipod, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD card, wifi, XBMC
This is the first post in what will be (at least) a three part series. I’m also planning to look at the Quick2Wire board(s) and Gertboard. The ladder board (sold by Tandy for the bargain price of £5.99) is designed for Gordon at Drogon’s ladder game[1], but can be used for various other purposes – basically anything […]
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Tags: board, GPIO, Ladder, LED, makers, project, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, review, RPi, switch
OpenELEC 3.0 RC1
The first release candidate for OpenELEC 3.0 (featuring XBMC 12 ‘Frodo’) is now available (official announcement). If you’d like to download an SD card image to install on a Raspberry Pi then it’s available from the official_images section of the Pi Chimney resources site. RC1 is 2.99.1, and later builds will be available from the […]
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Tags: 3.0, file, Frodo, howto, image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RC1, release, RPi, SD card, update, upgrade, XBMC
3TB
When I have to move resources.pichimney.com (and its older predecessor openelec.thestateofme.com) to a new VPS I was using a little over 1TB of bandwidth per month. I found a plan with 3TB to give me a little head room. Christmas has obviously been busy with people getting new Pis and playing with OpenELEC – this […]
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Tags: bandwidth, download, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, VPS
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