Jude's Solder Buddy
Jude Pullen's clever little contraption that uses an old bike brake cable and a servo to feed solder.
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bladeRF: a low cost wideband SDR transceiver
- Analogue
- Communication
- Communication Applications
- Consumer Applications
- Development Kits - Electronics
- DSP
- FPGA
- GSM
- Raspberry Pi
- Test
- Wireless
With a 300MHz to 3.8GHZ range, 40MHz bandwidth, USB 3.0 interface and priced at only $400, it's hardly surprising bladeRF reached its $100,000 Kickstarter goal in under 8 days.
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Coconut Pi: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development Project
We are a team of Undergraduate Engineers embarking on an exciting journey into the embedded realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development. Follow us on our facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi or stay up to date as we post our fortnightly blog updates to Designspark! Our team is also open to suggestions and opinions from the Designspark Engineering community. You can either comment on our blog posts or just scroll through our daily pictures and updates on our facebook page and leave a helpful comment or suggestion for us to consider in our development process!
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Selected 2012 Highlights
A small selection of personal highlights from over the last 12 months.
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The PI and the APC
A few months ago DesignSpark had a brief review of the APC or Android Personal Computer, seen as a possible rival to the Raspberry Pi. I say possible, because despite a flashy website proclaiming the arrival of a ‘$49 Bicycle for the Mind’, it seemed remarkably difficult to get hold of. Things have moved quickly and RS is now the European distributer for the APC and has it in stock. Is it a ‘Pi-Killer’ though?
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Time-lapse Photography with the Raspberry Pi Camera
A simple time-lapse photography project using the new Raspberry Pi Camera with a Raspberry Pi Model A and a battery pack.
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Quick2Wire Hardware Beta
- Consumer Applications
- Development Kits - Electronics
- LED
- Microprocessors
- Raspberry Pi
- Solder
- Switches
- Test
Back in March I spoke with Romilly Cocking of Quick2Wire about the Raspberry Pi experimenter's kit they were developing. The first two boards from the kit have now gone into beta testing and this post takes a closer look at them and covers initial hands-on experience.
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Oxford Raspberry Jam - Jan 2013
A quick round up of some of the show and tells this month that included a Raspberry Pi Powered 3D Printer and an Electronic Drum Machine.
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OSHUG #23 — Products
A report from the twenty-third Open Source Hardware User Group meeting.
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Limited Edition Raspberry Pi
This week marks the 1st Anniversary of the Raspberry Pi. To celebrate this, RS has produced a Limited Edition Blue Raspberry Pi in celebration of Model B.
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Machines for Mining the Bitcoin Gold Rush
There's a new gold rush, but this time the tools of choice are algorithms and HDL skills instead of pick axes and pans, and machines not people are doing the mining.
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Ten essential Raspberry Pi projects
Ten projects for the Raspberry Pi that range from educational to fun via highly useful.This is by no means an attempt at a definitive list and the term essential is somewhat subjective, but if you're
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Get your Raspberry Pi from RS Components
Do you want a slice of Raspberry Pi? RS and DesignSpark are proud to be announced today as a Raspberry Pi Partner. Demand for these boards is very high!
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Raspberry Pi and Custard for Schools
- Arduino
- ARM
- Manufacture
- PIC
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Serial Peripheral Interface
- Software Design
- Test
Ok, so this isn't a post about food! but it is a story about a recipe destined for success.Raspberry Pi is a low cost credit card sized ARM/GNU based single board computer that runs on a Linux Platfor
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Arduino or Raspberry Pi?
- Arduino
- ARM
- Design Phase
- Ethernet
- Microcontroller Dev Kits
- Microcontrollers
- Microprocessor Dev Kits
- Microprocessors
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Sensors
A comparison of the respective benefits of the low cost embedded development platforms that may help with making a decision as to which to use when.
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Raspberry Pi is put through its paces (part 1)
The last few days have been incredibly frustrating, but they've ended really well.We've been expecting a Raspberry Pi for a while now, along with many, many others.
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Running GEORGE 3 on a Raspberry Pi
Thanks to the Computer Conservation Society it's now possible to use a Raspberry Pi to run a classic British mainframe computer operating system.
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Raspberry Pi goes to the movies - Part 2
In my last blog Raspberry Pi goes to the movies I took an initial look at using the Raspberry Pi as a media centre.In this blog I thought I’d talk you through putting XBMC onto an SD card and running it on a Raspberry Pi.
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Make your own walking, talking, living….robot
- Accelerometers
- ARM
- Beagle
- Coldfire
- Communication
- Cortex-M
- Development Kits - Electronics
- DSP
- dsPIC
- Freescale
- Interconnect
- Manufacture
- Mbed
- Memory
- Microcontrollers
- PIC
- PIC32
- Power
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Robots
- Sensors
- Serial Peripheral Interface
- Test
As I wrote this blog Raspberry Pi exploded on the scene taking everyone by surprise with the sheer volume of people wanting to buy it. Many readers will have to wait a while to get their hands on one so why not use the time to investigate rather more interesting projects than just writing games? How about giving a humanoid walking robot some Artificial Intelligence…
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Using the DrDAQ with a Raspberry Pi
- ARM
- Human Machine Interface
- Manufacture
- Oscilloscopes
- PIC
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Sensors
- Signal Generators
- Test
- x86
The DrDAQ is a multifunction USB device that incorporates sensors for light, sound and temperature, supports external sensors including a pH electrode, and has inputs and outputs...
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DesignSpark celebrates it’s 2nd birthday this week.
This week marks DesignSpark’s 2nd Birthday and here at RS we are extremely proud of what we have achieved so far. Since DesignSpark launched back in July 2010, we’ve had almost 2 million vis
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Hacking the TP-Link TL-WR703N
- Beagle
- Capacitors
- Display & Lighting
- Ethernet
- FLASH
- Human Machine Interface
- MIPS
- PIC
- Power
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- RX
- SERIAL
- Solder
- Test
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- Wired
- Wireless
The TL-WR703N is a 3G travel router that has become a hit with the hacking community due its low cost, compact size and the ease at which it can be re-purposed. This post covers initial experiences wi
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Raspberry Pi switch on occurred!
So finally after much coursework had got in the way, simple organisational errors and other assorted nonsense I finally had 3 pupils, all the kit for switching on the the Pi and a promise that if it w
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Raspbian Arrives!
Wednesday 18th July saw the first release of the new official Raspberry Pi Linux distribution, Raspbian. This post covers initial experiences with Raspbian and looks at the major differences between t
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PiGo Sneak Preview
- Arduino
- Design Phase
- Development Kits - Electronics
- LED
- Microcontrollers
- Microprocessors
- Power
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Sensors
- SERIAL
A first look at the upcoming modular expansion system for Raspberry Pi.
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Raspberry Pi Model A
The $25 Raspberry Pi Model A is scheduled to be on sale mid Jan/early Feb 2013.
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My Raspberry Pi Thinks It's a Mainframe!
As the Raspberry Pi started to ship the Sinclair ZX Spectrum turned 30 years old, and comparisons were being made between the two and their role in providing access to affordable computer hardware.
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Raspberry Pi first experiences
Raspberry Pi running Debian/LXDE and displaying the DesignSpark homepageExcitement surrounding the Raspberry Pi has reached fever pitch as enthusiasts, engineers, and software developers and hardware
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Raspberry Pi with an ancient ancestor….
- Development Kits - Electronics
- Enclosures
- Mbed
- Memory
- PIC
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Robots
- Serial Peripheral Interface
- Test
It’s extraordinary: the release of a new piece of computing technology has generated a huge wave of nostalgia for 30 year old kit such as the Sinclair ZX81, ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro.
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Happy 2nd Birthday, DesignSpark!
DesignSpark celebrates its second birthday this week and it turns out that in a matter of days it will also be my second anniversary here. But if I'm honest I had to check the date, because an awful l
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Five ways to get your Arduino project online
This post takes a look at five different ways of getting your Arduino project online.
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Oxford Raspberry Jam: April 2013
Lots of cool projects shown at the April Raspberry Jam including a giant Video Wall, a Pi Controlled Car and a Kids Electronic Message Phone
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Raspberry Pi + iRacer + Bluetooth + Makey Makey = Cheese Controlled Car (CCC)
We had a lot of fun this Christmas using a Raspberry Pi and MaKey MaKey to control a Bluetooth RC car called the i-Racer.
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Raspberry Pi joystick
- Enclosures
- Interconnect
- PIC
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Resistors
- SERIAL
- Serial Peripheral Interface
- Test
After getting MAME going on my Raspberry Pi so that I could play old arcade games. I wanted to hook up a proper joystick. Back in the 80′s I had the excellent and ubiquitous Competition Pr
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Slight delay in proceedings
I realise I have slightly disappeared from the blogging scene here for a bit. I blame those monstrous things known as coursework assignments! I don't think there is as big a barrier to cre
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Raspberry Pi as a media player
The System On Chip (SOC) used by the Raspberry Pi looks like it was designed for set top boxes, and gives it some pretty impressive video performance. The first thing I wanted to do with my Pi was see
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Using the eZ430 Chronos with a Raspberry Pi
- Accelerometers
- Communication
- Development Kits - Electronics
- Microcontrollers
- MSP430
- PIC
- Power
- Pressure Sensors
- Raspberry Pi
- Sensors
- SERIAL
- Test
- Wireless
- x86
The eZ430 Chronos development kit from Texas Instruments represents great value for money and provides a wristwatch with a wireless-enabled microcontroller, accelerometers and temperature...
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Cobbling together a Pi Cobbler
Today saw the launch of the Raspberry Pi Cobbler, a kit to attach your Pi to a breadboard. It looks great, but I won’t be buying one as I made my own over the weekend.The observant amongst you will
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A step back in time to the 1980's with a Raspberry Pi...
- Analogue
- Capacitors
- Ethernet
- Memory
- PIC
- Power
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- Standards
- Test
Over the weekend I took home one of the Raspberry Pi prototypes. From the moment I took the first byte of the Pi, memories came flooding back...
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Fun, Forth and FIGnition
- ARM
- Assembly
- Development Kits - Electronics
- FLASH
- Interconnect
- Memory
- Microcontrollers
- PIC
- Power
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Robots
- RX
- SERIAL
- Solder
- Test
This post is not about Raspberry Pi. Sorry about that; I thought I'd take a break from all that heady stuff about HD graphics and ARM processors to look at a similar sized and priced beginners' computer board, but located towards the Arduino end of the processor power spectrum. It comes as a kit of parts and you have to solder it together yourself.
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Processing on the Raspberry Pi
- Accelerometers
- Arduino
- ARM
- Development Kits - Electronics
- PCB Etching
- PIC
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- RX
- SERIAL
- Wireless
A look at getting the Processing programming language and IDE up and running on a Raspberry Pi, and example code working with the TI Chronos eZ430 development kit.Processing is a programming language
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The Pi in Education - first lesson
I am a Head of ICT at a small girls school in Oxfordshire. I say Head of ICT but with DfE putting in the boot to the subject (quite rightly I think) my title will probably be changing soon!
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Atomic Time for the Raspberry Pi
One of the ways the Raspberry Pi keeps costs low is by omitting a real-time clock (RTC) chip. When connected to the Internet system time can be set from NTP servers, but when you don't have Internet a
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Installing Linux software on Raspberry Pi
A number of readers have commented in posts that they are not familiar with Linux so I thought I would explain the process of installing software on Raspberry Pi.
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Raspberry Pi, Childs Play…
My son Ben is 9, a mirror image of myself at his age, into Lego, Star Wars and computer games. We’ve been following the Raspberry Pi story together for sometime now with great interest.
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Raspberry Pi Arcade
- Arduino
- ARM
- Enclosures
- GAL
- Human Machine Interface
- PIC
- Raspberry Pi
- Serial Peripheral Interface
- Test
I grew up in the dawn of arcade games, and living at the coast meant that I had access to a couple of decent arcades where I could play all the classics as they came out - Space Invaders, Galaxian, De
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Pi Perspectives: Miles Berry (Naace)
Miles Berry is Chair of the National Association of Advisers for Computers in Education, Subject Leader for ICT Education at the University of Roehampton, and a consultant and frequent speaker and aut
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Accessorize your Pi for £10
Much has been said about how the cheap (as in low cost) the Raspberry Pi is, but I wanted to find out how cheap I could buy all the peripherals for.SD-Card 2G/4G £3.00 &n
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Adventures with the 'Pi - Initial Thoughts
- Arduino
- Communication
- Display & Lighting
- Manufacture
- Mbed
- Memory
- PIC
- Power
- Programming
- Raspberry Pi
- Research Phase
- SERIAL
- Test
- USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- WiFi
I was fortunate enough to receive a Raspberry Pi board for review (Thanks, DesignSpark!) a couple of days ago and I have been playing with it pretty much non-stop ever since. (More photos availab
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A Raspberry Pi (VAX) Cluster
In a blog post last month I looked at how a Raspberry Pi can be used to emulate a formidable IBM mainframe, and in this post I describe how a pair can be used to emulate VAX computers