Raspberry Pi Geek 09

A new year begins for the Raspberry Pi community. If 2015 is anything like last year, it will find the Pi in thousands of new projects – controlling sensors, animating toys, enabling new media art expositions, bringing wonder to museum displays, and helping adults and children learn about computers.

NOOBS (New Out Of the Box Software) version 1.3.10, provides beginners an easy way to install operating systems on their Rasp Pis.

As with everything in the technology industry, things move quickly in the Raspberry Pi ecosystem – so much so that it is sometimes hard to keep up! This regular column rounds up the best Raspberry Pi and open source hardware news to keep you up to date on the latest developments, projects, products, and events.

The Kano Kit learning platform puts the Pi in easy reach for even the youngest users.

We talk with Alex Klein about Kano – a computer anyone can make.

The HummingBoard with its quad-core power, larger storage space, and faster interfaces is a strong competitor for the Raspberry Pi.

Pydio transforms the Raspberry Pi into a powerful file sharing and collaboration platform.

The human eye is sensitive to a narrow range of wavelengths that make up the visible light spectrum, but not to the infrared range. However, a Rasp Pi outfitted with an IR camera module offers a low-cost solution for taking photographs using infrared light.

In this article, we hack a popular toy from the 2000s, the Robosapien v1, and show you how to upgrade it with a new Arduino brain.

Managing connectors for the Raspberry Pi can be a problem; sometimes cables stick out every which way, and true chaos sets in when you need a USB hub. The MediaPi case from SB Components offers an organizing solution.