Windows 10 IoT Core Public Released and Home Automation Contest

Windows 10 IoT Core Team are excited to announce the public release of Windows 10 IoT Core! With this are bringing the capabilities of Windows 10 to boards like the Raspberry Pi 2. Learn more about this exciting new release in the blog post, "Hello, Windows 10 IoT Core". You can download it now for free to use in your projects.

To celebrate the release, the "Windows 10 IoT Core - Home Automation Contest" is announced in collaboration with http://www.hackster.io/. To participate, build a home automation solution that leverages the power of Windows 10 IoT Core running on Raspberry Pi 2. The two grand prizes are a trip to Maker Faire, New York for a winner from US and to Maker Faire, Rome for a winner from Europe to demo your projects to your fellow Makers. Other prizes include up to $2000 in gift certificates and a free Raspberry Pi 2 kit to the top 100 shortlisted projects!

* See ‘Challenge Rules’ on https://www.hackster.io/challenges/Windows10Automation for more details about the contest.

Get Raspberry Pi Board Information in Python + RPi.GPIO

Example to discover information about your Raspberry Pi Board, with GPIO.RPI_INFO introduced since 0.5.10.
(reference: http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/BasicUsage/)

import sys
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

print(sys.version)
print("GPIO.VERSION: " + GPIO.VERSION)
print("GPIO.RPI_REVISION (deprecated): " + str(GPIO.RPI_REVISION))

print("")
print("GPIO.RPI_INFO:")
print(GPIO.RPI_INFO)

print("")
for keys,values in GPIO.RPI_INFO.items():
    print(keys + " : " + str(values))

Run on Python 2.7.3 + RPi.GPIO 0.5.11

Run on Python 3.2.3 + RPi.GPIO 0.5.11

Banana Pi BPI-M3 octa-core development board

Banana PI BPI-M3 is the open source hardware platform,Banana PI BPI-M3 is an octa core version of Banana Pi ,Banana PI M3 is the octa core more better than the Banana Pi M2,it support WIFI onboard.

Banana Pi BPI-M3 series run Android,Debian linux,Ubuntu linux, Raspberry Pi imange and others imange.

Banana PI BPI-M3 hardware: 1Ghz ARM7 octa-core processor, 2GB LPDDR3 SDRAM, add 8G eMMC flash on board

Banana PI with Gigabit ethernet port, It can run with Android 5.1.1 smoothly. The size of Banana PI BPI-M3 same as banana pi M1, it can easily run with the game it support 1080P high definition video output, the GPIO compatible with Raspberry Pi B+ and can run the ROM Image

• Eight-core CPU Allwinner A83T (Higher Performance than Raspberry pi 2)
• 40 PIN compatible Rapberry Pi 2 generations
• RAM: 2G LPDDR3
• Storage : Onboard 8G eMMC flash.
• SDIO interfaces on-board wireless WIFI&Bluetooth BT4.0
• Provides CSI,DSI,Audio,2*USB ,1*OTG interfaces
• Support TF card
• Fiexible(External) WIFI&BT antenna Connection or on-board antenna
• Support SATA port

Details: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-m3-octa-core-development-board/29

Banana pi BPI-M3 will send free sample for test
1 if you have website or blogs, can help us review, test BPI-M3, and help us advertise our product.
2 if you have experience with many open source development and want to help us development software and fixed issue.
3 you have a good idea and want to use BPI-M3 in a cool project .

link to ask sample: http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-bpi-m3-will-send-free-sample-for-test/106