So what with everything in my life totally changing during this past year I've barely had time to touch my Raspberry pi. But tonight I sat down with my daughter and gave Scratch a go. Together we made a game where our little dinosaur ran around chasing a chicken drum stick. It's no Ico but it's a start. Anyone else tried using it?

Do something with the GPIO stuff, isn't that your domain? Sensors and actuators.

There are simple dooralarm kits about, there are libraries for attaching PSeyes and getting them to detect movement via OpenCV- then email or post the images somewhere.

I say door alarm as that's fairly basic, learn an input what it's ranges mean and do something when it's within thresholds.

I still haven't done anything with mine yet, will be doing some audio shizzle though, you can get pure data on it which is pretty cool. Check this out -



http://createdigitalmusic.com/2013/07/roll-your-own-looper-cheap-raspberry-pi-pd-korg-monotron-hands-on/ (More vidz and stuff in there, check out the guitar one.)

I've got everything I need to do something like that as well.

Decent little intro to what can be done.

Oh wait - PSeye plugs in the usb dun'it. Not in keeping with the CV stuff.

Maybe if I look at that again it might be using IR to trigger the camera.

Nothing to stop you from using openCV, like.

But just incase you go looking for what I've seen somewhere...

Petey, what you up for doing?

It seems that we're a closet linux society and as such I'll leave this here

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/linux-101-hacks-ebook/

Anyone managed to get RISC OS running on their Pi? I've downloaded the image and extracted it to an SD card, but it refuses to boot properly. (I get the start up screen, but then it chucks up an error message; "Message from Desktop. Machine startup has not completed successfully: 'File '.!BOOT' not found'"

Why do you want to run RISC OS anyway!!?

No, no... Seriously... 

WHY!!?

The original Noobs didnt but the new version has. It's got RISC, Raspian, XBMC, Arch linux and I think another one.

Yup, the new version of NOOBS definitely has RISC OS on it. I now have RPi that can boot into RISC OS or Raspbian. Two steps forward, one back, however as RICS OS throws a wobbly immediately after getting to the desktop and fails to recognise my keyboard and mouse.

I'll keep at it. It's either that or go outside.

Have you considered using the Compute Module?

Anyone got their Pi online via wifi? I bought a stick recently, but even though I appear to have put all the relevant settings in, none of the built-in web browsers in Raspbian can connect to a web page.

I use the Edimax wifi dongle from Amazon. It's one of the recommended dongles to use. If you're using Raspian you boot up the machine and open the wifi tab on the desktop. Do a scan and then figure out which type of Wifi you're using. This bit baffled me a little because theres lots of different types of wifi species. I guess they eat different shaped nuts or something. After that it should all work fine.

One issue with Wifi, there is a good chance the dongle wont have enough power if you have a keyboard/mouse plugged into one USB and the dongle in the other usb. Also if you are using a powered USB hub the Pi doesn't tend to like the wifi dongle being plugged into it. 

I set mine up with mouse, keyboard and USB pen drive plugged into the hub and the Wifi dongle plugged directly into the Pi.

Blue are they any good? I was looking at them a while back but i've seen mixed reviews online.