Monthly Archives: March 2013

Generous donation to Harrogate Grammar buys a set of Raspberry Pi’s – Harrogate News

Harrogate News Generous donation to Harrogate Grammar buys a set of Raspberry Pi's Harrogate News A generous donation from an enthusiastic parent has enabled Harrogate Grammar School to purchase a class set of Raspberry Pi's . The Raspberry Pi is a low cost computer designed to help children to program. The donor, William Fish and his father both …

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Blue Pi!

To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there’s something really handsome about that blue. They come with a certificate of authenticity signed by Eben and a matching blue case from One Nine Design in Wales; and blue, as drinkers of Slush Puppy should be aware, is the canonical colour of raspberry flavouring

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Raspberry Pi is one year old – Electronics News

Raspberry Pi is one year old Electronics News element14 is celebrating Raspberry Pi's first birthday with a month-long series of initiatives to celebrate the outstanding success of the microcomputer. Raspberry Pi made its European debut on the element14 stand at Embedded World 2012

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Raspberry Pi competition shortlist drawn up in Cambridge – ElectronicsWeekly.com

Raspberry Pi competition shortlist drawn up in Cambridge ElectronicsWeekly.com The competition was intended for school and university students to present interesting design ideas demonstrating their programming skills using the Raspberry Pi .

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Bits and bobs for Sunday

Pimoroni’s first anniversary competition has ended, and the entries have been sifted through: you can read all about the winner (and the entries that got an honourable mention) on their website . Well done all: we had fun looking at your entries with Paul at our birthday party on Friday. (Special shout-out to Sophie, aged nearly-five, who had a really neat butterfly VESA mount idea.) Paul Clark’s winning entry – congratulations, Paul! Speaking of that birthday party: Transatlantic flight + party == no fun noodles.

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Raspberry Pi-powered Tardis blasts off from ‘Blighty’s Baikonur’ – Southgate Amateur Radio Club

Raspberry Pi -powered Tardis blasts off from 'Blighty's Baikonur' Southgate Amateur Radio Club The launch took place from Brightwalton in Berkshire on Wednesday, February 27, almost exactly one year since the launch of the Raspberry Pi computer board. The balloon carried a 70cm transmitter sending 600 bps radio telemetry and Slow Scan Digital …

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Adafruit’s new Internet of Things Printer goes wireless, uses Raspberry Pi (video) – Engadget

Adafruit's new Internet of Things Printer goes wireless, uses Raspberry Pi (video) Engadget Adafruit's just outed a new Internet of Things Printer kit that's traded in its ethernet connection for WiFi. Instead of using an Arduino Uno like its wired sibling, the new DIY hardware is built with a Raspberry Pi Model B running Raspbian Linux … and more

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Raspberry Pi Cake – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Cake Geeky gadgets Surprisingly it isn't raspberry flavor. raspberry – pi -cake. This Raspberry Pi cake was specially made and presented to Pete Lomas of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Andrew Robinson at the Embedded World conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

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