I found this while just researching how to do this, after seeing it for myself
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1173
Looks very useful, esp if you want to help new users migrate from win7 to Linux and help may transition smooth. Or at least try to 🙂
I have made up a few ID badges for some of the lug members who are attending the pi jam in Torbay to demo etc.
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
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
This robot can also be controlled via a wii board.
Combo of the Gertboard, Arduino and AT mega, According to Element 14 the price is <£18.87*
Pi site info : http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/5308
Element 14 more detailed description : http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-64326
Price is quoted from the website.
Looks interesting.
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Mathematica now available on the Raspberry pi for free, also the wolfran language is available for free
This was posted to the list but does highlight that it IS possible to reject microsoft.
Two million Pi’s have now been sold, that is a big milestone. Here’s to the Next 1 million and beyond.
Earlier today, Raspberry Pi enthusiast, Amy Mather posted a tweet about a Mini Mini Maker Faire, which is aimed to inspire under 18s to get involved with the Maker culture.
Amy is conducting a survey on when the time is best and if people can help, there is also more information regarding the Mini Mini Maker Faire on the survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eGMLtlnM-DFEhVZ2PfUmcU5di8V-_xRSEu5kijcWI4c/viewform
This article may be of interest if you :
have a pi, and want to use either nginx or apache webserver.
Lubuntu (1) is a Lightweight Ubuntu Linux based operating system that is built for low power, lower memory computers. It uses the lxde (2) front end, which is the same as the Raspberry pi uses.
The documentation team would like some help in writing both a manual and a wiki (online manual) for the next major Long Term Support release in April 2014.
If you would like to get involved then please see some of the links below.
1) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu – lubuntu wiki introduction to Lubuntu
2) http://lxde.org/ – LXDE website.
3) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/GettingInvolved – How to get involved.
4 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/DocumentationTeam – Main team page.
5) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation – Work so far