Having had a whale of a time at the Aberdeen Culture Hack (aka #ach13) last weekend it was my intention to write a full blog post, but Kevin Mitchell beat me to it. So, I’ll pick out a few highlights
Book Review Programming the Raspberry Pi: getting started with Python
Whether you are a complete new-comer to the Raspberry Pi, or someone with a bit more experience of the pocket-sized pc or of the Linux Open Source Operating System, you will find lots of valuable information in Simon Monk’s new
Taming the Python – geting started programming on your Raspberry Pi
Last Christmas I got a Raspberry Pi as a present. As you may know it comes with the Python programming language as standard. As a former programmer, who started on punch cards at school, wrote some Sinclair Basic for ZX81,
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 4
If you’ve read the previous parts of this article you’ll find I have set up my Raspberry Pi by formatting the SD card and installing the Raspbian OS, setting it up on my home network and assigning it a static
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 3
I wrote in my last post about how I got SSH working on my Pi allowing me to connect remotely and run command line tasks on the Raspberry Pi. The next step was to set up a means of running
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 2
Having got my Raspberry Pi up and running, I decided to see what else I could do with it. How easy would it be, for example, to administer the Pi remotely? If that worked then it could be set up
Adventures with a Raspberry Pi – Part 1
For Christmas 2012 I received from my wife a Raspberry Pi – a credit card-sized PC which costs little more that £30 on its own. She had kindly bought it bundled with peripherals including a power source, a powered USB