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  • Raspberry Pi News Roundup

    Since my last update there have been some new happenings in the Raspberry Pi community. Here's a look at a few of the most significant...

  • Qt Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi 3

    While much attention has been focused on the built-in WiFi hardware, the Raspberry Pi 3 (1) also ships with on-board support for Bluetooth. ...

  • Configuring Qt Creator for the Raspberry Pi

    While it is not the only option, Qt Creator is the integrated development environment (IDE) of choice for Qt. It provides good support for...

  • Yocto on the Raspberry Pi

    Yocto(1) is a software framework for embedded Linux systems. We've looked at it in previous blog posts(2). It forms the basis of many embedded Linux...

  • Raspberry Pi Update

    It has been just over four months since my last blog post on the Raspberry Pi (1). Since then, the project has continued to move forward and I...

  • Getting Started with MRAA on the Raspberry Pi

    The Raspberry Pi (1) is one of the more popular low-cost computers on the market. It has an ARM CPU, hardware video acceleration, RAM, SD card mass...

  • Raspberry Pi Update

    My last blog post on the Raspberry Pi was written last April, when I covered the release of the Raspberry Pi 2. Since then, a number of things...

  • Qt on the Raspberry Pi 2

    The Raspberry Pi 2 computer, released in February 2015, is the latest generation of Raspberry Pi hardware. It is a significantly faster machine...

  • 2014 Year in Review

    As the year draws to a close, I thought it would be good to take a look back at some of the major events of the Qt world in 2014. Qt is now on a...

  • Raspberry Pi Update

    Since my last blog about the Raspberry Pi in August, there have been a number of interesting new developments and the Raspberry Pi project...

  • Summer Grab Bag

    It's summertime here in the Northern hemisphere, and many people are on vacation (I just got back from a week off, myself). Despite that, we are...

  • Retrocomputing: Motif and CDE

    Introduction In this blog post, we'll look at a couple of older graphical user interface toolkits that were popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Why...

  • The Raspberry Pi Camera Module

    Introduction In this post we'll look at the Raspberry Pi camera module, a low cost hardware module that supports still picture and video...

  • Building Qt and QtWayland for Raspberry Pi

    This document will explain how to build Qt 5.2.0 beta1 and QtWayland for Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/). The procedure will likely work...

  • Building Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi

    This is a HOW TO guide for building Qt 5 for the Raspberry Pi, and building and deploying Qt 5 apps using Qt Creator. This guide will be using...

  • Another Name Change

    This week was another slow week as many people were off part of the week due to New Year's or extended holidays. PhoneGap, recently renamed to...

  • Marketing Push

    This week we did some marketing to promote the project. I made a posting to the callback developer mailing list and we put a link to this...

  • Repos Moving

    This week we finished implementing some Cordova APIs (at least for the Qt 4 version). Compass and Accelerometer are done and some of Events was...

  • Move to QML

    Since the last posting we properly set up deployment of Cordova Qt for MeeGo Harmattan (e.g. the Nokia N9 phone). We also got Qt 5 packages...

  • Odds 'n Ends

    Throughout this project one thing that has been constantly changing has been the source code repositories, both due to several project names changes...

  • Qt 5 Alpha Out, Raspberry Pi Shipping

    Work has been slowing down somewhat as Qt 5 has been firming up for release. The Qt 5 alpha came out on April 3rd and we tested our code with it....

  • Testing Continues

    We've recently been running the Cordova tests and making some fixes to get them to run better. We've documented on the Wiki how to run the Cordova...

  • Please, may I have another slice of Raspberry Pi...

    About three weeks ago, Nokia arranged for ICS to gain access to the Raspberry Pi board so that we could help with an exploratory open source effort...

  • Qt Dev Days Munich Recap

    Good talking to you all at Qt Dev Days Munich. We captured some of our Raspberry Pi thoughts in a podcast posted here: This Week in Qt Episode 23...

  • Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi Demo

    Here's a video of my colleague, Roland Krause, demonstrating Qt 5 + Raspberry Pi at Qt Dev Days in Munich. Stop by our booth in San Francisco next...

  • Raspberry Pi Giveaway from ICS at Qt Dev Days

    Be sure to stop by the ICS stand at Qt Developer Days this week for a chance to win a Raspberry Pi. We'll be giving away 50 boards over the course of...

  • 70+ Raspberry Pi boards given away at Qt Developer Days

    As part of the initiative to put Qt 5 on Raspberry Pi, ICS gave away over 70 Raspberry Pi boards to interested developers at Qt Developer Days last...

  • Status Update

    The Raspberry Pi folks report that the first batch of production boards is finally in production. The first 10,000 units should start becoming...

  • Raspberry Pi is Shipping

    The Raspberry Pi boards are now shipping in volume from the distributors and unboxing videos are showing up all over the Internet. If you were one...

  • Raspberry Pi at Qt Developer Days

    We haven't blogged here for some time, in part because many of the folks at ICS have been very busy planning and preparing for the annual Qt...