For many people they would be interested in buying a Pi just so they can watch Netflix on Raspberry Pi. Unfortunately, I don’t think Netflix will work on the Raspberry Pi yet because Netflix doesn’t support Linux system. However there are solutions to some Linux platforms:
http://www.iheartubuntu.com/2012/11/ppa-for-netflix-desktop-app.html
But this solution relies on WINE, which is a emulator of Windows OS For Linux and Mac.
If your Raspberry Pi Power Supply is not good enough, you will probably encounter this embarrassing situations.
A great feature on the Raspberry Pi is the GPIO pins (stands for General Purpose Input Output). These GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi can be found in 2×13 header pins which can perform tasks include SPI, I2C, serial UART, 3V3 and 5V power.
In this project I implemented OpenCV color recognition on the Raspberry Pi that uses PID to control the pan-tilt servo system. In this post, I will explain briefly how color tracking works, and how to use PID control algorithm to improve tracking performance. Like my previous face recognition tutorial, I will be using the Wall-E robot in this Raspberry Pi Color Tracking project as an example.
About a year ago, I created a Wall-E robot that does object and face recognition. It uses Arduino as the controller and need to communicate with a computer that runs the face detection program to track the target. Raspberry Pi face recognition has become very popular recently.
This tutorial demonstrate how to use voice recognition on the Raspberry Pi. By the end of this demonstration, we should have a working application that understand and answers your oral question.
With Raspberry Pi and I2C communication, we can connect the Pi with single or multiple Arduino boards. The Raspberry Pi has only 8 GPIO’s, so it would be really useful to have additional Inputs and outputs by combining the Raspberry Pi and Arduino.
One way to connect the Raspberry Pi and Arduino is by connecting the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi and the Serial Pins on the Arduino.
There are many ways of connecting the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, such as using the GPIO and Serial pins and using I2C. But this could be one of the easiest way to get them talking, because hardware that required is minimal: all you will need is a micro USB cable that comes with the Arduino. To Setup your Raspberry Pi, check out this article.
In this article, I will show you how to setup your Raspberry Pi and access it remotely, using SSH for command line access and VNC for GUI access. With successful setup, you can say good bye to the monitor, mouse and keyboard, and you can view and control your Raspberry Pi from your laptop.
One of the reasons people would still want to use the expensive Windows over the free open source Linux is because there isn’t much games available on Linux. By introducing more raspberry pi open source games could encourage people to play and develop them.
To make life easier, here is a list of open source games that should be able to play on the Raspberry Pi I found. Be aware that I haven’t got my Pi yet and not tested these games.
The most popular type of open source multi-player games are first-person shooters based on the Quake 3 engine. Many of them either package the engine with all their file or are just a mod that runs on the Quake 3 engine. This should be easy to compile for ARM as it’s on Github.
World of Padman – it would require downloading the 1.5 full version from here and then compiling the 1.6 engine using the source here and installing it over the top of the 1.5 stuff.
UrbanTerror – I’ve discovered that although the game is free, it is closed source and is used as a mod on top of the opensource ioUrbanTerror engine that can be compiled following this guide. Then all you would need to do is download the linux files in a zip from here and put them in the right place for the engine to use them.
OpenArena – This is the original remake of Quake 3 using free textures etc. The source code for the game and the engine is here and it also has an SVN here
Spring RTS – this game may be too much for the Raspberry Pi. Anyway, There is a really nice guide for compiling the engine and lobby (server connection app) here. They have a Server that runs on java that can be downloaded from here. I don’t think an R-Pi could handle the server and the client though.
Digital Paint: Paintball 2.0 – This is a paintball game based on the Quake 2 engine. It’s good fun. The guns etc are pretty realistic and the maps are good fun. The graphics are a bit dated, but it is still being updated even now! You can get the source code etc here.
Hedgewars – This is a worms clone made using hedgehogs for some reason. Everyone knows what worms is so it doesn’t need any more explanations. The kids aren’t quite as into it as the 3D games or Teeworlds, but the multiplayer is good. You can get the code etc here.
Scorched3D – It’s a “shoot the hell out of the other person with big mortars” sort of game. Lots of download/compile options here. Looks pretty nice in this video.
Red Eclipse – it has an SVN etc here. Yet another FPS. Nice graphics, but dreadful sound effects if you watch this video.
BZFlag – it should run nicely on the R-Pi. Source is here and other files if needed will also be on Sourceforge.
Warzone 2100 – The source etc can be got from here and the main site is here.