Update - I took this further and created a DeathStar to blow up planets too, in a Minecraft Star Wars animation.

The new Raspberry Pi 2 has got twice the RAM and a load more processing power, so will it make a better Minecraft server? The old Pi made an adequate Minecraft server providing you only had a few p...

One of the questions I get asked a lot about the Minecraft: Pi edition APi is “how can I get the direction the player is facing?” and I have always had to say “sorry you can’t do that”.

When the BBC decided to turn off its iPlayer RSS feeds with no up front warning, I was annoyed, really annoyed, which isn’t like me.

This isn’t a particularly new idea and it has certainly been done before… but I like it.

In order to bring a bit of Christmas based fun to the office (I am normally a bit of a ‘bah humbug’) I have created a reaction game using a Raspberry Pi and a GPIO Xmas Tree from pocketmoneytronics.

A couple of months back the ordnance survey created version 2 of their Minecraft map of Great Britain, its got loads more detail than the original, and is even more brilliant than there first one.