Monthly Archives: June 2013

A preview of the new Cambridge GCSE Computing Online!

We get a lot of emails saying: “Why aren’t you working on any schools stuff? We want to see materials!” The answer, up until now, has always been: “We’re working on it!” Here’s a sneak preview of what we’ve been doing. Working with OCR and Cambridge University Press, we’ve been producing a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) based around the GCSE Computing syllabus

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PiMiner Bitcoin mining machine

Email arrived from LadyAda on Friday. In between the usual advice about good Korean barbecue technique and pointers to cool things that just happen to be conductive, she mentioned that Adafruit have been on a real roll this week with Pi projects. You’ll already have seen Adafruit’s Onion Pi , a Pi-based wireless Tor proxy.

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Digital Life | Raspberry Pi: A computer for $25 – The Courier-Journal

Digital Life | Raspberry Pi : A computer for $25 The Courier-Journal The Pi has no internal storage; it boots from a standard SD card. You can buy a card pre-loaded with a compatible operating system

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Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days – TechCrunch

Rapiro Kit Robot For Raspberry Pi Gets Funded On Kickstarter In Two Days TechCrunch Meet Rapiro, the kit robot with a space inside its kawaii head to accomodate the Raspberry Pi microcomputer. The gizmo is the creation of Shota Ishiwatari, the Japanese gadgeteer who came up with a brain-wave controlled cat-ear headband and a heart …

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RAPIRO: The affordable robot kit for your Raspberry Pi – Gizmag

RAPIRO: The affordable robot kit for your Raspberry Pi Gizmag Have you been reading Gizmag's robot articles and ever thought you'd like to get your hands dirty with a robot of your own? Well, there's a Kickstarter for that. Shota Ishiwatari has just launched RAPIRO, his custom designed Raspberry Pi Robot.

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At US$354, RAPIRO is a fraction the cost of other hobby robot kits – Gizmag

At US$354, RAPIRO is a fraction the cost of other hobby robot kits Gizmag Have you been reading Gizmag's robot articles and ever thought you'd like to get your hands dirty with a robot of your own? Well, there's a Kickstarter for that.

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Kickstarter UK’s ‘Rapiro’ Robot Kit for Raspberry Pi is Adorable – Tom’s Hardware Guide

Kickstarter UK's 'Rapiro' Robot Kit for Raspberry Pi is Adorable Tom’s Hardware Guide Raspberry Pi has got to be one of the cutest little boards we've ever seen. That said, at the end of the day, it's still a board

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Turn the Raspberry Pi into an inexpensive home media center – Examiner.com

Examiner.com Turn the Raspberry Pi into an inexpensive home media center Examiner.com Owners of the Raspberry Pi are able to turn their systems into an inexpensive media centre to be used with the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) bundle. According to the EDN Network on Thursday, June 20 the XBMC bundle is currently available from Farnell

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Raspberry Pi and Tor: Meet Adafruit’s Onion Pi Wireless Privacy Router – SiliconANGLE (blog)

Raspberry Pi and Tor: Meet Adafruit's Onion Pi Wireless Privacy Router SiliconANGLE (blog) The amazing Adafruit Industries has come up with a combination of the Raspberry Pi –a small, micro form factor general purpose computer–with a wireless card and Tor–a powerful Internet anonymizing network and service–in one device: the Onion Pi.

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