I bought a case for my Pi very early on. It seemed sensible: I don’t keep the Pi permanently plugged in, so it’ll always get plenty of handling – not something you want to subject on a naked board to. I got a cheap one – the SB Components case, covered below – but have since begun to wonder whether I needed something better: a case that’s most suited to regular opening and closing while I slip on and off various GPIO add-ons.
Continue readingReview: Raspberry Pi beginners’ books
Over at The Register, you can read my round up of five of the latest Raspberry Pi books:
- The Raspberry Pi User Guide by Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree
- Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace
- Raspberry Pi in Easy Steps by Mike McGrath
- Raspberry Pi for Dummies by Sean McManus and Mike Cook
- Haynes’ Raspberry Pi Owners’ Workshop Manual by Gray Girling
Connect a Raspberry Pi to a Mac using a USB-Serial adapter
I’m enjoying tinkering with the Raspberry Pi. Alas most of the tutorials and guides available online, of which there are many, focus on hooking the tiny board computer to Windows or Linux machines. Mac-centric guidance is sparse, and I could have used some this week.
Beating a bug in OpenElec 3.0’s Mac OS X installation code
Just as I’m about to start using an Intel “Next Unit of Computing” (NUC) as a media device in place of my 1080p-unfriendly original Apple TV, up pops a major new release of OpenElec, the XMBC and Linux-based media centre software.
I’d already installed XBMC on top of Ubuntu 12.10, but I was having some issues with Ubuntu’s Plymouth boot screen loader and HDMI detection. OpenElec, being a more streamlined package, would solve my problems I hoped.
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