Posts Tagged ‘Raspi’
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Pi Zero W, a variant of the Pi Zero that comes with onboard WiFi and Bluetooth. At $10 it’s double the price of the Pi Zero, but still substantially cheaper than $35 for the original Raspberry Pi Model B which launched 5 years ago. By having connectivity onboard the […]
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Tags: InfoQ, Pi Zero W, Raspi, RPi
For the last few years the fantastic chaps at GreenQloud have been hosting my automated builds for OpenELEC. Sadly (for me) their business is shifting from running a cloud to selling their ‘QStack‘ cloud platform to others, so GreenQloud are shutting down their IaaS (so that they’re not competing with their customers). I’m pleased to say that […]
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Tags: BigV, Bytemark, GreenQloud, hosting, openelec, PiChimney, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi
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
Needy Jelly Babies
Two years ago I took my son along to Maker Faire UK in Newcastle (which is where I grew up). This year the whole family came along. Whilst I queued with the kids for the ‘laser caper'[1] my wife went along to a talk by Clive from the Raspberry Pi Team. I can’t blame her […]
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Tags: audio, dependency, github, GPIO, jelly baby, mpg321, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, Rob Bishop, RPi, wifi
Sous Vide Roast Beef redux
Last week I cooked tri-tip with my Raspberry Pi controlled water bath. This week I used a much more ordinary cut, some topside from my local Co-Op supermarket that had cost me just over £5 for 1.6kg. Some time ago I stopped buying this kind of meat because if you cook it per the instructions […]
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Tags: beef, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, Sous vide, water bath
Best roast beef ever
I cooked tri-tip with my Raspberry Pi controlled sous vide water bath today. It came out brilliantly – on a par with the best Chateaubriand I’ve had (which for the record was at Casa Ferlin in Zurich – well worth a visit if you’re ever in that neck of the woods). The meat I got […]
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Tags: beef, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, Sous vide, tafelspitz, tri-tip, tritip, water bath
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
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