mildbyte's notes tagged 'raspberry pi'

'grasping the Pi, part 4: traceberry Pi'
@mildbyte 10 years, 9 months ago | programming | raspberry pi |
I wanted to take a break from compiling kernel modules and making hardware work and so decided to compile tRayce, a raytracer that I wrote recently, on the Pi and see how slower it exactly was. The first problem arose ...

'grasping the Pi, part 3: wireless notworking'
@mildbyte 10 years, 9 months ago | programming | raspberry pi |
Linux is very famous for having problems with certain hardware, including NVIDIA Hybrid SLI (and its successor, the infamous NVIDIA Optimus) -enabled GPUs and various wireless chips. The situation has been improving recently -- there are a lot of open- ...

'grasping the Pi, part 2: an SD card full of awesome'
@mildbyte 10 years, 9 months ago | programming | raspberry pi |
I don't really know much about minimalistic window managers: I use GNOME 3 (which is a story of its own), but have tinkered with xmonad (a window manager written in Haskell), so I decided to install in onto the Pi ...

'grasping the pi, part 1: setting up'
@mildbyte 10 years, 9 months ago | programming | raspberry pi |
So to probably help their Computer Science students get some programming practice before the start of term, University of Cambridge provided each one of them with a Raspberry Pi computer. I guess there is no need to introduce the Pi ...