Friday, November 28, 2014

OwnCloud installation on Banana Pi- Personal Cloud and NAS


Pumpkin Pi is an mere idea, a seed, of great potential. It aims to bring to your fingertips a personal cloud experience and a fun Do-It-Yourself project. Powered by an embedded board running on Linux, Pumpkin Pi is all the imagination and work of developers and programmer worldwide. To be loaded with an open source cloud software, Pumpkin Pi stores all of your information on a hard drive in your house.

https://pumpkinpi.cu.cc/generic.html

Linux command "$ sudo !!", to run last command with sudo

To run last command with sudo right, enter:
$ sudo !!

Thursday, November 27, 2014

Code Java on the Raspberry Pi, BlueJ on the Raspberry Pi

BlueJ, start from version 3.14, fully supports the Raspberry Pi. BlueJ is a Java development environment that allows development as well as program execution on the Pi.

BlueJ on the Raspberry Pi provides full access to hardware attached to the Raspberry Pi via the open source Pi4J library, from the the familiar Java SE language, including the new Java 8.

link:
http://bluej.org/raspberrypi/index.html



Current issue of Java Magazine, november/december 2014, have a charter of "Code Java on Raspberry Pi" introduce how BlueJ brings Java SE 8 development directly to the Raspberry Pi.



Friday, November 21, 2014

Raspberry Pi Challenge Day @ UKFast

UKFast hosted a challenge day for The Dean Trust Ashton-On-Mersey School to inspire the next generation of software engineers. Guided by our industry experts; the students learned to program the Raspberry Pi to control bedroom lamps with their smartphones and modified Minecraft.

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Banana Pi Camera & LCD

An overview of the LeMaker Banana Pi camera and five inch LCD module, including connection and driver information.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

How much current does the Raspberry Pi Model A+ need


Raspberry Pi A+ power measurements. How much current does the A+ need to do various things? Comparison with B+ and older model A. Blog article here http://raspi.tv/?p=7238

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

Develop C# program on Raspberry Pi, with mono

Sponsored by Xamarin, Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. A growing family of solutions and an active and enthusiastic contributing community is helping position Mono to become the leading choice for development of cross platform applications.

To install mono on Raspberry Pi, run the command:
$ sudo apt-get install mono-complete


Currently, the installed version is 3.2.8.


Create a simple console program of HelloWorld using C# language, HelloWorld.cs.
using System;

public class HelloWorld
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello Raspberry Pi...using c#");
    }
}


Compile it with the command:
$ gmcs HelloWorld.cs

And run it:
$ mono HelloWorld.exe



Updated post: Install Mono/MonoDevelop on Raspberry Pi/Raspbian