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Arm DS Development tools (Debian edition)

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The Arm DS Development tools is now available for Debian.

Quoted from the website (Which I hope is ok,  as its for promotional purposes)

The ARM® DS-5 Development Studio is a professional toolchain developed by ARM to accelerate the development of native (C/C++) Linux applications. It is available free of charge to Debian Developers and offers 32-bit (armel and armhf) and 64-bit (arm64) ARM application debug and system analysis to help make Debian packages robust and highly optimized for ARM processor-based devices. Learn more about Streamline performance analyzer and DS-5 Debugger.

Please visit:

http://ds.arm.com/debian/

For more information

 

Windows 3.1 in Dosbox

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Last night I decided to have a go at seeing if Windows 3.1 would run in dosbox. Surprisingly it does, and pretty quick too, you need to download the dos mouse driver and run that before starting windows but other than that it works.  The install was pretty quick too.

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Windows 3.1 running in DOSbox

I copied the folder i have all my dosbox items in over to the pi and tried this on that,  you need to run dosbox through x in order for the keyboard to work properly (or it seems by default you do) so this slows things down,  dosbox will run without X but the keyboard mapping was seriously messed up,

I guess this being a more proof of concept idea as I am not really sure what I would need windows 3.1 for,  mind you there was an excellent periodic table program with decay trees for elements which was pretty good.   Kinda out of date now as since then we have discovered and named more elements, and named beyond their initial Latin numerical names.
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Pi jam Write up July 14

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Just got back from the Raspberry Pi jam in Exeter and have included a few photos below of some of the things on show.

 

First off is Tom Broughs Excellent Wii remote scratch game,  this uses Python to take input from the wii remote via bluetooth and pass it on to scratch, so that the cat can be controlled to move around and catch / eat falling fish.

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Still with tom, we had handy (robot arm controlled from scratch) and Bob the robot which as arduino at its heart.

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We also had Lego Rovers Devon make an appearance,  amazing what you can do with lego and the nxt block

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We also helped Chinna out with his buggy made from an old remote control car and raspberry pi.

Chinnas Blog can be found here

http://scientistnobee.wordpress.com/2014/07/05/raspberry-pi-spotter/
And a link to github for the code
https://github.com/scientistnobee/Raspberry-Pi-Spotter

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Scratch game created by one of the young people.

 

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This is the new Raspberry Pi compute module courtesy of Gordon Henderson

 

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Trevor sharp had a Self made IO board on show

 

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Demo of my own Pilte,  More info on my website at http://www.zleap.net

 

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Minecraft on the pi

 

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Arduino based distance measuring project using the ultrasonic module HC-SR04

 

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Simons pi powered music chimer.

 

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Fab lab was open, showcasing the range of things that can be made with some of their kit

 

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Exeter Pi jam – 22/02/2014

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As always an excellent mix of social activity,  techy talk and great demos.

Highlights are illustrated below with photos.

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Over 1/2 term.  Exeter library hosted an event for children that used the raspberry pi camera to make a video of a puppet theatre.   The top photo was of a screen displaying the result of this work.  It looked pretty good and all achieved with the help of the PI.

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Tom Brough recently aquired a doodle bot,  which is using an Arduino based system to draw.  The picture is of the bot, the holder at the front is for the pen.

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A pi set up.  This was used by several people through out the event, python programming,  and by myself to give a quick demo of scratch.

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The chimer, which will be familiar to regular pi jam visitors has now been expanded further.

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This is another ones of Tom Broughs projects,  Helicopter game, which was also demoed at the Torbay jam.  This has now been set up on my pi too,  but Tom helped me get bluetooth support up and running.

As mentioned,  hopefully see more people at the next event,  you never know who will come or what will be demoed, and as a result you could mis out on some real gems of projects.

Next Exeter jam is 22nd March,   The next Torbay Jam is 8th March ( please see the previous jams page for a write up of the Torbay Pi jam for Feb.)

See you at the next jam.
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EXETER PI JAM 25/1/2014

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EXETER PI JAM 25/1/2014

A few photos from the pi jam.

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I  demoed a qr code to turtle graphics program which got fixed on the day thanks to Tom Brough.  So now that is working. Or at the point were I need to iron out a few things. 

For more info please visit my website.

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Toms latest project,  wii controlled and a car racing game

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Music player

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Controlled car hack,  rc car + pi.

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Robot arm.

Another great pi jam,  lots of cool demos, and especially more children / young people programming, which is what the pi is all about.

Big thank you to Simon at Exeter library for organising the event. 🙂

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PI jam Exeter 23/11/2013

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Just got back from the Pi jam in Exeter. Below are some photos / notes from the event.

 

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What the event is all about, the Raspberry Pi.

Upon arrival simon had already set up an interesting demo,

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This project is essentially a frame and windchimes,  being sounded by some motors with wire sticking up, so that when the motor rotates, it hits the chime,  this is all controlled via a raspberry pi, the laptop I think is there to provide a remote link to the Pi.

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The Lego mindstorms robot made its regular appearance.

The website for this is here : http://fullmeasure.co.uk/legoroversdevon

But on a related note these links may be of interest.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/brickpi/

http://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi.html

PIcontrolledcar

This is a hacked radio controlled car with a onboard pi and bluetooth.

Tom brough demonstrated his ball tracking robot and also the wii board controlling the same robot.

Tom's Robot powered by a Pi

Tom’s Robot powered by a Pi

This robot can also be controlled via a wii board.