Monthly Archives: February 2013

Supercharge your Raspberry Pi – TechRadar UK

Supercharge your Raspberry Pi TechRadar UK We first featured the Raspberry Pi early last year when they were launched. We loved them, but we didn’t realise just how much the rest of the world loved them too.

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Americans! Want a visit from Eben at your hackspace next week?

Eben is doing some work on the west coast of the US until Wednesday, then he’s at a loose end before flying out to NYC on Saturday morning. He’s decided he’d like to fill those two days visiting bits of the country we’ve not been to before with Raspberry Pi, so we’re looking for folks at hackspaces who might want him to drop by to give a talk on one of those days.

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The true cost of a Raspberry Pi is more than you think – ExtremeTech

ExtremeTech The true cost of a Raspberry Pi is more than you think ExtremeTech As the Raspberry Pi craze sweeps the internet, you might have found yourself wanting to purchase the little computer to see what projects you can use it for. You may have thought to yourself that even if you can't think of a nifty project, who cares …

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Minecraft comes to the Raspberry Pi – ComputerActive.co.uk (blog)

ComputerActive.co.uk (blog) Minecraft comes to the Raspberry Pi ComputerActive.co.uk (blog) Great news for all Raspberry Pi owners, especially those hoping to keep their children interesting in the device.

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Beer Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi Tap List for His Home Brews – Wired

Beer Maker Builds a Raspberry Pi Tap List for His Home Brews Wired The Raspberry Pi has a reputation for being beginner-friendly, but even slightly buzzed hackers have been able use the mini microprocessor to improve their microbrews. Now one tinkerer is using his board, plus a 7-inch Sony touchscreen and a little PHP ..

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Under the Hood of the World’s Smallest, Cheapest Computer – Mashable

Under the Hood of the World's Smallest, Cheapest Computer Mashable In 2006, several members of the Cambridge faculty and other UK computer scientists joined together to form the charitable Raspberry Pi Foundation with one simple goal: get more computers into the hands of more children.

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BBC Wales Science Cafe broadcast from the Pi factory

BBC Radio Wales’ Science Cafe programme this week came from the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales , that makes the Raspberry Pi for us under licence. It’s only available for UK listeners (my mistake – the BBC’s territorial thingbat doesn’t extend to radio broadcasts, so you can listen anywhere in the world – as long as you aren’t Gert, who is still having problems), and only for the next five days

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Raspbmc – final version released

News for all you media-player types from Sam Nazarko, the terrifyingly young developer of Raspbmc: Although the Raspberry Pi’s real goal is education, its powerful GPU has made the device very popular amongst HTPC tinkerers and enthusiasts.

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Raspberry Pi Arcade Coffee Table – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Arcade Coffee Table Geeky gadgets We have featured a number of different projects here on Geeky Gadgets created using the awesome Raspberry Pi $35 mini PC, but this Raspberry Pi Arcade Coffee Table created by Instructables user grahamgelding which was created last year is definitely …

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