BBC News Astronaut Tim Peake invites Raspberry Pi challenge BBC News Two Raspberry Pi computers are planned to be flown to the International Space Station (ISS), and both will be connected to a new “Astro Pi” board, loaded with sensors and gadgets. Tim Peake spoke to Rory Cellan-Jones about the challenge.
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Astronaut Tim Peake invites Raspberry Pi challenge – BBC News
IT PRO Raspberry Pi : Top 15 projects to try over Christmas IT PRO Sales of the Raspberry Pi are creeping towards to the four million mark and the web is bursting with examples of practical applications.
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Raspberry Pi: Top 15 projects to try over Christmas – IT PRO
Dave: We’re really happy to announce a new project in partnership with British Astronaut Tim Peake, UK Space and the European Space Agency: we’re sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station! Read on to find out how to get your code running on them… Leading UK space organisations have joined forces with British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake and Raspberry Pi to offer students a chance to devise and code their own apps or experiment to run in space. Two Raspberry Pi computers are planned to be flown to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Tim’s 6 month mission and both will be connected to a new “Astro Pi” board, loaded with a host of sensors and gadgets. Launched today at an event held by the UK Space Agency , the Astro Pi competition will be officially opened at the BETT conference (21-24 January) and will be open to all primary and secondary school aged children who are resident in the United Kingdom.
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Astro Pi: Your Code in Space
Our intrepid education team spends a lot of the year on the road.
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Christmas competition
Our intrepid education team spends a lot of the year on the road. In the last six months, Clive, Ben, Carrie Anne, Dave and Rachel have attended more than fifty events on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s behalf
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Christmas competition – win a B+ and help decorate Pi Towers!
On Saturday, something rather special happened in Cambridge. Tim Richardson and Mike Horne , who run the regular CamJam , were holding a special event: a robotics Raspberry Jam, with competitions for attending teams who had built their Pis into a robot. Eben and I were judging.
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PiWars – Cambridge Jam. With robots.
opensource.com Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+ opensource.com Overall, the new Raspberry Pi A+ is a great board. It has an unbeatable price of $20, which makes it an ideal device for experimental projects.
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Tinkering with the Raspberry Pi A+ – opensource.com
The Guardian How to get the most out of a Raspberry Pi ? Your tech questions answered The Guardian A Great question. Computing and robotics are both amazing fields of study and work and a source of fun for those that get into them
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10 of the best Raspberry Pi projects for kids: How to teach kids to code … PC Advisor This is a really cool project carried out by a Dad with his son: making a mini beast habitat fit for an insect, complete with connected camera via Raspberry Pi .
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Develop Imagination gets into micro-computing with Raspberry Pi rival Develop Imagination Technologies has opened pre-orders for a new micro-computer similar to the Raspberry Pi . The MIPS Creator CI20 has been designed for developers to create a range of applications and projects, including games. The development board