RISC OS FR : The Raspberry Pie contest

Tristan Mumford tried to find a way to easily control the GPIO pins under RISC OS for a robotic project. The result is the library “Lib RO GPIO” (librogpio). It only supports simple pin control so far, but it does it well.

The hardware support for GPIO pin control is now in the source tarballs so that version 1.00 of the GPIO module can now be in ROM for any platform. That should make things easier as well.

12 – Benoît Gilon
Benoît is now back on the development of Tag, “The hAndwriting recognition enGine”. Tag is a small freeware (source provided) dynamic handwriting recognition engine. Tag is written in BBC Basic, without floating point (as much as possible).

Benoît made a live demonstration of this tool two years ago at the A2FF (Apple 2 Festival France):
https://youtu.be/WSU1dZ2FnBY?t=31m10s

More details on the project are here:
http://bgilon.free.fr/RISCOS/tag/main.htm

Benoît wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who will be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

13 – Alain Leraut
Alain made a good joke (in French) about “la mise en bière d’Acorn” (to put Acorn in the coffin / some acorn beer).
Fortunatley, RISC OS is still alive!

Final version: https://www.riscos.fr/fichiers/contests/biere-au-gland.jpg
First version: https://www.riscos.fr/fichiers/contests/biere-au-gland.png

Alain wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who will be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

14 – Rick Murray
Frobnicate is back… en français. Rick delivered a new edition of Frobnicate, in French. Made on a RISC OS computer and published under a Creative Commons license.

“I know that Frobnicate #30, in 2008, was to be the final issue […]. I was not planning on writing another issue of Frobnicate, however the irrepressible David Feugey of RISC OS FR talked me into it. And with Brexit on the horizon, it seemed like a good opportunity to see how much my French sucks!”

Read more here: https://www.riscos.fr/frob31/

Rick wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who will be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

15 – Simon Ferré
Simon has a basic telescope, a Meade 4500. It is on a tripod mount but it only has manual controls.

Simon proposes a system to control the telescope using a Raspberry Pi, a battery to provide power, and software to controls the position of the telescope using motors. It could also include a camera attached to the end of the eyepiece to capture photographs or video, and/or view the image on a TV.

The Raspberry Pi could be attached to the telescope, or simply the controls and motors, and camera attached to the telescope, with the Raspberry Pi connected to a TV inside the house, with a remote control to pan around.

Simon’s wife would love to take part in this hobby but she feels the cold so doesn’t go outside to view the images. But if they were displayed on the family’s TV, she could see what Simon gets to see, from the comfort of the home.

Simon wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who will be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

16 – Jean-Michel Bruck
Jean-Michel is one of the most active RISC OS developers on the French scene today. He won his award for his work around Psion support under RISC OS 5.

Since then, he also worked on math, Midi, USB, XML and other topics. He also wrote Diderot, a tool for managing DDE projects. Many very useful software for RISC OS. More here: https://jeanmichelb.riscos.fr/Programmes.html

Jean-Michel wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who we’ll be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

17 – Jean-Pierre Weber
Jean-Pierre is not only a man of the wave, but also of the ware. Software and hardware. For sailing, he uses today a Raspberry Pi under Raspbian, with open source navigation software.

But Jean-Pierre is also working on several other hardware and software projects, with a RISC OS one… and he needs some hardware for their development.

Jean-Pierre wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who we’ll be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

18 – Michel Osselin
Michel is known for his key role in the FrAUG (French Acorn User Group). He no longer uses RISC OS, but still has a lot of RISC OS hardware and software. You’ve probably seen him at one of the last English shows.

Michel surprised us with a 3D printed case that mimics the RISC PC. The template comes from this site: http://www.dorchester3d.com/printing/blog/2016/06/raspberry-pi-acorn-risc-os-case

Ah, and Michel is also another accomplished sailor.

Michel wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who we’ll be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

19 – Xavier Tardy
Xavier “Zarchos” is well known on the retro scene, with a strong presence on some forums and many projects. For example a future museum, largely dedicated to Acorn computers.

Zarchos made a selection of videos in 2017… some of them for other websites, helping to inform the whole community about the RISC OS ecosystem. This one last 4 hours and was made for a Spanish website, Amiten TV (in English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS3-x9cCZxk

Xavier wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who we’ll be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

David – please scale the images a little smaller next time. NetSurf is too stupid to do this by itself, and it makes page rendering a mess (wider than the screen) when using “traditional” sized monitors.

Thanks. ;-)

PS: Heh… look at those sea photos. So not taken around St. Malo or St. Nazaire. In fact, I don’t think I’ve seen the sea looking anything like that north of, oh, I dunno, Bordeaux?

It’s probably near La Rochelle

Indeed it is near La Rochelle, to judge by that chart, which is here on Googlemaps: https://goo.gl/maps/XXz4KJ9sgs52

You guys have boats and sparkling seas.

Me? More like this, because I’m north of La Loire…

;-)

20 – Jean-Marc Levasseur
Jean-Marc is working on a scenographic project that will implement music and light. being a historical user of Acorn computers, RISC OS is one of the options he is studying. Jean-Marc shares some pictures of his MIDI works.

Jean-Marc wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

Who we’ll be the next one? Feel free to participate: https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html

21 – John Hogg
John would like to work on a home automation project. Both hardware and software, with articles covering the build and software development to show the modern use of RISC OS.

John describes his project: “I was wondering what will bring more people to RISC OS, not just having a quick blast from the past. We need new programmers and people to use it more. RISC OS was always amazing for DIY electronics, control systems, etc. So a project that people could follow over a series of articles, to make something like a thermostat and learn how easy it is to code your project. Then learn some more advanced programming adding the smart functions. It could be a really good thing to get people to try out RISC OS for more than just a bit of fun and learn some programming too that could maybe help in their next project.”Jean-Marc is working on a scenographic project that will implement music and light. RISC OS is one of the options he is studying, being a historical user of Acorn computers. Jean-Marc shares some pictures of his MIDI works.

John wins a Raspberry Pi B Model. Old model, but 100% new.

The Raspberry Pie contest is now officially over!
https://www.riscos.fr/raspberrypie.html