wraggster
July 2nd, 2012, 19:35
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Those Raspberry Pi boards are flying into the mailboxes of tinkerers all around the globe, so our tip line is currently awash in a deluge of Raspi hacks. Here’s two that came in over the weekend:
First up is [reefab]‘s port of Quake II (https://github.com/reefab/yquake2) for the Raspberry Pi. The build is based of Yamagi Quake II (http://www.yamagi.org/quake2/) and is mostly playable. The Quake III port for the Raspberry Pi is old hat (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1139), but we’re happy to relive the pulse-pounding action of Quake II any day.
Next up is [Joonas]‘ take on getting a serial console up and running (http://codeandlife.com/2012/07/01/raspberry-pi-serial-console-with-max3232cpe/) with the Raspi. The Raspberry Pi has a UART serial console on its 26-pin header, but you can’t just connect those pins to a serial port. To shift the +/- 12V down to the 3.3 Volts the Raspi can understand, [Joonas] used a MAX3232 – the 3.3 Volt version of everyone’s favorite RS-232 transceiver. With a breadboard and a couple of caps, it’s easy to connect your Raspi to a serial console. Neat.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/02/getting-a-console-and-quake-ii-running-on-a-raspberry-pi/
Those Raspberry Pi boards are flying into the mailboxes of tinkerers all around the globe, so our tip line is currently awash in a deluge of Raspi hacks. Here’s two that came in over the weekend:
First up is [reefab]‘s port of Quake II (https://github.com/reefab/yquake2) for the Raspberry Pi. The build is based of Yamagi Quake II (http://www.yamagi.org/quake2/) and is mostly playable. The Quake III port for the Raspberry Pi is old hat (http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/1139), but we’re happy to relive the pulse-pounding action of Quake II any day.
Next up is [Joonas]‘ take on getting a serial console up and running (http://codeandlife.com/2012/07/01/raspberry-pi-serial-console-with-max3232cpe/) with the Raspi. The Raspberry Pi has a UART serial console on its 26-pin header, but you can’t just connect those pins to a serial port. To shift the +/- 12V down to the 3.3 Volts the Raspi can understand, [Joonas] used a MAX3232 – the 3.3 Volt version of everyone’s favorite RS-232 transceiver. With a breadboard and a couple of caps, it’s easy to connect your Raspi to a serial console. Neat.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/02/getting-a-console-and-quake-ii-running-on-a-raspberry-pi/