Pi Plays Poppins.
Attaching your Pi to a simple breadboard or mechanical robot or even a solenoid driven glockenspiel can be alot of fun and will be HUGE with creative kids, watch this space…
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Watching the Apple Event about those filthy Next Gen Laptops, on the worlds cheapest computer the Raspberry Pi, using AirPlay.
Apple TV eat your heart out, it does so much more too and at a fraction of the price.
Imagine what is possible when the RasPi goes mainstream.
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Apple AirPlay and Raspberry Pi were made for each other in heaven.
This shit just works!
Using a RPi with Raspbmc & an iPad @ 1080p res, this is now my no.1 choice of getting hd vid from anywhere to the main TV hassle free.
iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, AppleTV all work seamlessly with the Raspbmc interface on the RPi using AirPlay built into your iOS device.
Techie note: The only extra thing i needed to do to get Raspbmc working correctly with AirPlay was to install the “avahi-daemon”
apt-get install avahi-daemon
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Give Your Pi a Home:
I found a new home for my RasPi.
It’s actually a really neat little case and the Pi fits snuggly inside making setup and use easier and safer. There are not many cases out there yet for the Raspberry Pi, but this one from the UK is not bad for a starter.
If you’re interested you can get them from here: http://www.skpang.co.uk/catalog/raspberry-pi-cover-basic-shape-clear-p-1097.html
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Raspberry Pi Map:
Just added myself to the fast growing Raspberry Pi Tracker, you can add yours here: http://rastrack.ryanteck.org.uk/
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RasPi Geek Tutorial Update for Mac Users:
RasPiWrite is a script that makes it dead easy to install Raspberry Pi disk images to an SD card. Currently, this is the only automated way of preparing an SD card for use as a Raspberry Pi’s file system /’hard drive’ on your Mac.
In short, RasPiWrite allows you to:
Download compatible disk images for use out of the box, or use your own!
Smartly select and unmount an inserted SD card
Install the image to an SD card.
Things are moving so fast in the RasPi developer world and the device isn’t even out yet!
Geeky Tutorial:
How-to Write a Raspberry Pi ARM disk image to an SD card on a Mac:
This brief explanation describes how to write a Raspberry Pi ARM disk image to a SDHC memory card on a Macintosh. Free Raspberry Pi boot images can be found from their download page: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
1. Select the Linux distribution ARM image file you wish to download and save to your “Downloads” folder. Unzip the “xxx.zip” file within a Finder window.
2. Insert a SD or SDHC card (Not SDXC) which should mount to the desktop; you may need a card reader that can attach to a USB port. A 4 GB SDHC should be sufficient to store the Raspberry Pi disk image on.
3. Launch your Terminal application: “Applications ➜ Utilities ➜ Terminal“.
(N.B. only proceed if you understand the basic Command-line Interface and the dangers of Noobs using Terminal)
4. At the Terminal prompt type:
diskutil list
5. Identify the disk volume where the SD card has been mounted, e.g.,
/dev/disk3
6. Dismount the SD disk; be careful not to dismount other disks you have on your computer, such as your “Macintosh HD” or “Time Machine” backup disk.
At the Terminal prompt type:
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskN
(Where “N” is the disk volume no. eg. ”sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk3” )
N.B. You will require administrative (super-user) privileges for sudo commands and will be required to type in your admin password when prompted.
7. Write the disk image to the SD card.
At the Terminal prompt use the dd command to copy the files over.
sudo dd if=/<Path>/xxx.img of=/dev/diskN bs=1m
N.B. *<Path> You need to locate the Path of the Image file .img you previously downloaded. You can drag and drop the file into Terminal to auto complete the correct path at this stage.
For example, the “dd” Command should look something like this:
sudo dd if=/Users/<YourUsername>/Downloads/debian6-17-02-2012/debian6-17-02-2012.img of=/dev/disk3 bs=1m
That’s It!
When complete (10 – 30 minutes) the SD memory card can be ejected and the Terminal application can be closed.
The SD memory card can now be inserted into your Raspberry Pi computer and is ready to Boot.
Please be very careful when using Terminal commands. If you are still unsure what Terminal is or what command line means, then do not attempt any of the steps listed above, for your own safety. This info is for Mac users, if you’re using Windowz then there are thousands of blogs already out there telling you how to do it, just google it.
Great, all we need now is an actual Raspi to boot it on.
