HyperPie

The Hyperpie team are at it again with an official release of Hyperpie 2 (for the Raspberry Pi (3b and 3b+) – This official release comes with a huge changelog from the previous releases, as well as some serious modifications and the multi-threaded media downloader (get that media FASTER!).

CHANGELOG:

• Fixed Extend and Remove HDD Sscripts

• Fixed Issues found by Freddy Poli

• Updated Attract Mode to latest version

• Added Updated Rom Lists from Will

• Install mkarcadejoystick driver

• Installed ps3 controller driver

• Renamed Nintendo BS-X Satellaview to Nintendo Satellaview in Media and Rom lists

• Removed Sufami Turbo.mp4 in the menu art – snaps folder

• Removed king of fighters.mp4 from Menuart – Wheels folder

• Moved Game Descriptions to the correct place and Structure

• Fixed HDD Script again

• Added updated Themes

• Added update game Descriptions

• Added Eazy Hax RetroPie Toolkit

• Added Bezel Project

• Updated IMG to latest RetroPie 4.4.2

• Reinstalled XPAD driver

• Removed Love and Macintosh from es_systems.cfg

• Removed the ps3 configurations in Bluetooth options

• Fixed Star Wars Snap missing the space between Star and Wars, so it does not play

• GameBoy xml swapped with snap

• Added more system snaps

• Added multi-thread to media downloader

Download:

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_r5u1uv1qXzZJIgkJPTCXKxUmx7lwccZ/view

Surrogate.TV

Creating the bridge between the physical world and the internet is what we are all about. Create advanced robotics and remote-play experiences and share them with the world. No coding skills required. Get running in just 20 minutes!. Full Review in MagPi nº 110

SSID: surrogate-rpi

Password: surrogatetv

Download:

• https://image.surrogate.tv/surrogate-raspbian-latest.img.gz

Documentation:

• https://docs.surrogate.tv

Github:

• https://github.com/SurrogateInc/surrortg-sdk

Free Acount needed:

• https://www.surrogate.tv

NULL 2

VMWare ESXi

Pre-requisitos:

• 1 SD (Donde residirá nuestro sistema finalmente)

• 1 Pendrive o Adaptador USB SD Card (Contendra la ISO de ESXi)

• Raspberry Pi 4B de 4GB u 8GB

Firmware Raspberry Pi:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/archive/master.zip

Descomprimimos y eliminamos todos los archivos kernel.img de la carpeta boot, desde la Terminal tecleamos:

• cd Downloads && unzip firmware-master.zip  && cd firmware-master/boot && rm k*

Firmware UEFI Raspberry Pi Latest:

• https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases

• https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/download/v1.32/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.32.zip

Descomprimimos y movemos todos los archivos a la carpeta boot:

• unzip -o /home/pi/Downloads/RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.32.zip  -d /home/pi/Downloads/firmware-master/boot/

Copiaremos todo el contenido dentro de la carpeta boot a nuestra SD, en Raspberry Pi 4 de 4GB editamos el config.txt y agregamos la linea:

• gpu_mem=16

La ISO la flasheamos al Pendrive con Raspberry Pi Imager, Rufus o Etcher

Descarga, requiere cuenta gratuita:

• https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition

AmogOS

AmogOS is a meme OS based on the hit game Among Us, in the same vain as Hannah Montana Linux, but it's also developed and made to be a highly lightweight operating system that can be used as a desktop OS if one really wanted to, and it's a bit ironic that AmogOS is lighter and less bloated than most mainstream distros (chad AmogOS vs bloated mainstream distro as youtuber TechHut put it). It packs so many features in only 1.6GB that we gave up adding them all to our features list since it was so long.

Features

• Too sus.

• Custom wallpapers and start menu icon that can be found in ~/Pictures/.amogOS/.

• Grey color palette to match Among Us.

• Custom neofetch logo.

• MCPI Reborn (It's recommended you use the included gMCPIL launcher to launch the game).

• Uses Openbox WM and LXDE, allowing you to switch to 2 desktop spaces with the scroll wheel, similar to macOS.

• among-sus, an open-source among us alternative playable in terminal (use among-sus-server to host a localhost server and among-sus to connect to a server hosted on the current device, or nc <ip on your LAN network> to join a game on your network).

• DollarSkip, a simple C app to ignore $ signs inputted at the start of a command, for copying commands from online tutorials.

• ncdu and tldr.

• Pi-Apps x86 for the x64 build.

• 69.420% compliance with the SUS specification.

RPI only features

• 64-bit kernel enabled by default for speed, as well as to enable Wine support on RPI 3.

• Preinstalled CommanderPi, piwiz, Box86, Pi Power Tools, pi-apps, Colour Emoji Font, Stacer, legendary launcher (to replace Epic Games Launcher), and a 64-bit container to run aarch64 apps.

• Wine + box86 preinstalled for x86 windows syscall translation.

• piKiss and Pi-Apps preinstalled so you can install some games and also A M O N G U S. (Among Us will run at ~5 fps on multiplayer play. It runs rather poorly, but for a game never intended to run on a CPU the size of a thumb with 2 layers of syscall translation (x86 windows -> x86 linux -> arm linux), it's decent. A small resolution is needed for the game to run without poor framerates).

• You can overclock your RPI with Commander Pi to get slightly more performace.

Download:

• https://github.com/Amog-OS/AmogOS/releases/download/1.7.0/AmogOSv1-7-0_armhf.img.xz

• https://github.com/Amog-OS/AmogOS/releases/download/1.7.0/AmogOSv1-7-0_armhf.torrent

GitHub Releases:

• https://github.com/Amog-OS/AmogOS/releases

GitHub:

• https://github.com/Amog-OS/AmogOS

Balena Sound

Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect

• Audio source plugins

Stream audio from your favourite music services: Bluetooth, Airplay, Spotify Connect, UPnP and more!

• Multi-room synchronous playing

Play perfectly synchronized audio on multiple devices all over your place.

• Extended DAC support

Upgrade your audio quality with one of our supported DACs

Requirements:

• Sign up for or login to the balenaCloud dashboard

• Create an application, selecting the correct device type. If you are using a Raspberry Pi (any model) we recommend setting the type as Raspberry Pi (v1 / Zero / Zero W) as your application will then be compatible with all Raspberry Pi versions.

• Add a device to the application, enabling you to download the OS

• Flash the downloaded OS to your SD card with balenaEtcher or Imager

• Power up your device and check it's online in the dashboard

Getting Started:

• https://sound.balenalabs.io/docs/

GitHub Page:

• https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound

MtigOS

An out of the box Raspberry Pi "Raspberry Pi OS" distro that lets you receive, store and graph sensor information from ESP8266 chips.

It uses and MTIG stack: Mosquitto, Telegraf, InfluxDB and Grafana which are all pre-configured to work together. They automatically update using Docker.

This project started from a hackathon, where the organiser dumps a pile of esp8266 chips and sensors on a table that were up for grabs. I wanted build something that would take about 10 seconds to assemble and flash, and would be functional anywhere, no hardcoding of wifi settings and servers. Since I am the developer of CustomPiOS I also made a Raspberry Pi distro that has all the fancy dashboards pre-installed.

This work is also modular and written in a way you could build long lasting solutions, the code is all arranged so it’s easy to contribute and have a monitoring solution which is easy to customize.

What I am going to provide here is a set of tools, that would let you get pretty graphs from sensors with:

• NO coding required

• NO hardcoded wifi passwords or server settings

• NO soldering

• About 2-5 minutes assemble the hardware

• You get a standard which is supported in my distro and other devices. So you can use MQTT apps that are out there.

• Raspberry Pi image that sets up all the software that lets you see fancy graphs right away. Calling it MtigOS. It also automatically updates and is maintained.

• You are going to use Docker, without the need to know how to use Docker.

Cool tricks I am going to use:

1. You press the reset button a couple of times to enter a web config interface available in an access point so you can set up your wifi and MQTT server

2. I am saving you hosting this on a server and giving you the option to host this locally using a Raspberry Pi image.

3. docker + docker-compose that sets up a database and graphing tool – everything is already all set up. So if you want a server instead of a Raspberry Pi you can use that too no need to know docker.

Default credentials and hostname:

• Initial username for login in the web browser is admin password: admin

• SSH login is user: pi password: raspberry

• Set your wifi ssid and password at: mtigos-wpa-supplicant.txt

• hostname is: mtigos Likely you need to connect to it using mtigos.local

Download:

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/MtigOS/2020-02-29_2020-02-13-mtigos-buster-lite-0.1.0.zip

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/MtigOS/nightly/2021-10-08_2021-05-07-mtigos-buster-armhf-lite-0.2.0.zip

GitHub:

• https://github.com/guysoft/MtigOS

PleromaPi

The latest Raspeberry Pi I am releasing is a distro that lets you flash and run social network called Pleroma. Its part of a group federated social networks known as the Fediverse. There are about 4 million users to date, although this does not compare to the giants today, its enough that the software is fairly mature and it looks and feel like networks you know, and there are enough people to follow and get a decent feed to read. It also mean you can use it for different uses not covered by mainsteam social networks.

An out of the box Raspberry Pi Raspbian distro that runs Pleroma using Docker and Nginx-proxy as a reverse proxy, with letsencrypt.

Requirements:

• A domain name that redirects to your Raspsberry Pi – you need a domain name because communication from server-to-server happens on HTTPs, which needs a domain for the signature to work. And laso because usernames are in format @user@server.tld .

• Raspberry Pi prefrebly 3B+ , 4B and above.

• Pi should be connected to internet.

Initial Setup:

• https://guysoft.wordpress.com/2020/11/05/pleromapi/

Download:

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/PleromaPi/

• https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/PleromaPi/2021-05-30_pleromapi-20.04.2-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-0.2.0.zip

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/PleromaPi/nightly/2021-11-17_pleromapi-21.10-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi-0.3.0.zip

GitHub:

• https://github.com/guysoft/PleromaPi

BackupFriendPi

The idea is you get a RaspberryPi and plug a harddrive to it, put it at your friends, family or just in your house and backup up to it using a desktop client that should have the feel like Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. You also get history! The RaspberryPi can also be changed to a remote server (instructions here). This guide focuses on self-hosted instructions, because I think its strange all backup solutions out there require you to pay rent for your own data.

Using a 4TB drive for under $100 and a Pi, you can get much more storage which is not ephemeral.

The desktop client has been tested on both Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Requirements:

• A Raspberry Pi, preferably 4B because of the USB3

• A home network with a computer running Linux, MacOS or Windows, which you will be backing up from

• An external hard drive that can connect to the Pi (I use a 4TB WD My Passport drive, you can also just use a thumb drive for testing).

Default credentials and hostname:

Initial username for login in the web browser is admin password: admin

SSH login is user: pi password: raspberry

Set your wifi ssid and password at: backupfriendpi-wpa-supplicant.txt

hostname is: backupfriend Likely you need to connect to it using backupfriend or backupfriend.local

Download:

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/BackupFriendPi/

• https://unofficialpi.org/Distros/BackupFriendPi/2021-07-18_2021-05-07-backupfriend-buster-armhf-lite-0.1.0.zip

GitHub:

• https://github.com/guysoft/BackupFriendPi

Zynthian OS

Imagine having all the sounds you ever dreamed of in the palm of your hand.

Concept:

Zynthian is a new class of musical device. A powerful multitimbral synthesizer and audio processor, capable of managing up to 16 audio chains simultaneously. Also, it's a MIDI processor and router, equipped with standard MIDI ports, USB, WIFI & wired networks. It features:

• Accurate Emulations of Classic Instruments: Grand piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, pipe organ, Hammond organ, combo organ, Minimoog, DX-7, Oberheim OB-X, JX-10.

• Amazing Virtual Analog Synthesizers: ZynAddSubFX, Helm, NoizeMaker, Surge, AMSynth, SynthV1, PadthV1.

• SoundFont support: SF2, SF3, SFZ and GIG formats are supported. A 4GB collection of soundfonts is included.

• Lots of Effects: Reverb, delay, echo, chorus, distortion, EQ, compressor, wahwah, flanger, phaser, granulator, vocoder, auto-tune.

• MIDI filters & tools: Map, chorder, arpeggiator, LFO, sequencer, quantization, split, velocity map.

• Step Sequencer: A powerful step sequencer is integrated, allowing to use the unit as a groovebox.

• MOD-UI & Pure Data

• Audio & MIDI recorder/player: You can record audio & MIDI tracks, play them and overdub.

You can use it for live performing, studio production or as a tool for sound exploration. 

Zynthian is a community-driven project and it's 100% open source. Free software on Open hardware. 

Completely configurable and fully hackable! Free as in Freedom. 

An open platform for sound synthesis & processing.

Building instructions:

• https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_Box_Building

Wiki:

• https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_Wiki_Home

Download:

• https://os.zynthian.org/zynthianos-last-stable.zip

• https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php/Zynthian_Software#Official_Aruk_Buster_SD-Images_.28Buster-based.29

• http://unofficialpi.org/Distros/ZynthianOS/nightly/2018-04-09_2018-03-13-zynthianos-stretch-lite-1.0.0.zip

GitHub:

• https://github.com/zynthian/ZynthianOS