Free dynamic DNS for Raspberry Pi
No matter which services your Raspberry Pi is running, you will want it to have a static address for global access.
With a dynamic IP you will need to constantly verify the global IP address of your system, just to make that it hasn't changed. Fortunately, you can have a small service run on your Raspberry Pi and do this for you automatically, for free.
Mumble VoIP server on a Raspberry Pi
If you have ever heard of the Raspberry Pi you have also definitely considered what kind of services you would use it for. The Raspberry Pi does a good job at hosting websites and many other dedicated server tasks.
One of such services is the Mumble server, which provides free Voice-over-IP in a package similar to what you get from Ventrilo or Teamspeak. This is a guide on how to set up your own Mumble server on a Raspberry Pi.
Raspberry Pi, the XBMC HTPC: OpenELEC
With my recent issues of running XBMC smoothly on the Raspberry Pi I almost gave up on the idea of setting up a HTPC on this platform, but decided to try out the OpenELEC distribution anyway.
And what a success it was!
If you don´t own a Raspberry Pi already, grab a cheap one here via Farnell UK.
UPDATE:
The new Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM is now available!
Raspberry Pi, the XBMC HTPC: RaspBMC
I received my second Raspberry Pi in the mail the other day, and have spend some time on exploring the possible uses for the Raspi as a HTPC. The results are very promising, so I thought I might share what I've concluded so far.
UPDATE:
The new Raspberry Pi with 512MB RAM is now available!
Flexible Mission Execution for Mobile Robots
This last semester I've spent some of my study time on a new project. The goal was to create an easily reconfigurable demonstration of an AGV doing robust towing of carts between predetermined areas.
Whereas the developed solution is created for use with the mobotware platform, the concepts and general documentation could be used in for similar frameworks.
One of the things I had to look into during the project was the Kinect accelerometer.
