Wireless Raspberry Pi for Minecraft

We took some time out of our day today when Ethan simply wanted to try Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi.

1st challenge was that Chloe's room doesn't have wired ethernet connected, so we need a Pi that had wireless enabled - humm.

Ethan had successfully followed the instructions to create an SD card with the latest Wheezy from the beginning of February (2013) performed all the necessary mods with raspi-config to enlarge the filesystem, split the memory (as he as a 512MB version), but we stopped short at the wireless config stage.

Off to reliable tutorials on youtube - maybe not - they are pretty much all too old, based on older or non-wheezy distributions.

Alas Minecraft Pi style didn't quite come together in the time we had, we did try it but there were error messages being displayed on the console window and it was pretty non-responsive most of the time.

Tonight I stumbled across this quick tutorial, which has all the correct markers for what we had in out interfaces file - hopefully in the next few days we'll get chance to try it out.....

Car music sync with home

When the car is close enough to home to access the wireless network, the RPi can sync a music folder or collection with what's in the car.

Having a USB stick or small drive or iPod situated in the car to hold the music and either use the iPod to control (via http etc) the music output from the RPi's audio jack to aux input in car or direct output from iPod to car.

The RPi can be wireless guest when close to home or wireless AP in car. Or if myfi mobile access in car, maybe use the myfi for the AP for everything.