Last summer a team of developers designed a media center called the Slice. It’s basically a low-power living room PC which you can use to play videos, listen to music, stream internet media, and more. Now the first Slice units are ready to ship to backers of the of last year’s Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. The […]
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Slice is a simple media center based on XBMC, Raspberry Pi (crowdfunding)
You can build your own media center PC by installing XBMC software on a $35 Raspberry Pi mini-computer. But while the process is pretty simple for advanced users, it can be a bit daunting for folks who are new to Linux. Plus you end up with a media center that looks a bit like a circuit […]
Raspberry Pi Compute Module development kit now available
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is a tiny PC that’s about the size of a laptop memory stick. It has the same basic guts as a Raspberry Pi single-board computer, including a 700 MHz Broadcom BCM2835 ARM11 processor and 512MB of RAM. But it also has 4GB of flash storage attached the the board. Announced […]
OTTO: Raspberry Pi-powered camera for shooting animated GIFs (crowdfunding)
There are plenty of ways to turn video files into animated GIF images. But a new camera is designed to cut out the middleman by allowing you to shoot straight to animated GIF. But that’s not even the most unusual thing about the OTTO camera. It also happens to have a hand-crank, hardware that’s powered by […]
Design your own PC with Raspberry Pi Compute Module system-on-a-stick
The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, tiny computer that’s about the size of a deck of cards. Now the group behind the mini-computer are going even smaller with the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It looks like a stick of laptop memory, and actually uses the same connector as a DDR2 SODIMM. But it’s got […]