We’ve just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos, where he’s been talking about reshoring. And it got us very excited, because at 1m 03s he talks about Raspberry Pi. It is deeply weird to hear your company being namechecked by the PM.
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David Cameron talks Pi at Davos
As you may have gathered from large hints we’ve been dropping, we’re partway through a complete redesign and overhaul of this website. All the stuff that you’re familiar with here will be staying, but there will also be lots of new content, easy-to-download projects, and areas for teachers, learners and makers with classroom materials, worksheets and much more. The new site will come online (as a beta – we’ll be looking for your feedback later) in the spring; right now we’re working on architecture, design, and, most importantly, content.
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A sneak peek at some content from our new website
A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt Timmons-Brown (who you may know better as The Raspberry Pi Guy from his excellent series of YouTube tutorials) sent us this video late last night, we watched it together and found that by the end we had both got salty tears on our Battenberg cake
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A video that made us cry
Sandy Walsh thought it’d be cool to host a trivia night in his living room. Most of us would make do with paper, biros and shouting: but it’s from little ideas like this that splendidly grandiose Raspberry Pi projects are born. In this case , projects involving a shipment of Chinese bike handles and a very large amount of speaker wire
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Triviabox: a DIY quiz show setup
I don’t think there’s anyone here at Pi Towers who doesn’t use Steam for PC gaming, and we were all watching the various Steam Machines that got trotted out at this year’s CES with great interest. There was one $500 Steam Machine from iBuyPower which pleased and surprised us by appearing to have a Raspberry Pi jammed into the bottom of the case. (Word of God here is that they’re using it as a temporary measure while in development to control the LEDs around the edges of the box, but we like to imagine that they’re using if for other, super-seekrit stuff.) The iBuyPower Steam Machine
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Limelight: who needs a Steam Machine when you have a Pi?
LadyAda from Adafruit is one of my very favourite people. We have a tradition of spending at least one evening eating Korean barbecue whenever I visit New York. We have told each other many secrets over bowls of fizzy fermented rice beverage, posed for photographs in front of plastic meats, been filmed pointing at electronics for the New York Times, and behaved very badly together in Pinkberry in September
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Touchscreen point-and-shoot, from Adafruit
I’ve actually held this project in my very own sweaty little hands: Michael showed it to me at Maker Faire in NY last September. I’m glad he’s written the project up , because it’s a gorgeous build which really deserves sharing
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Wooden tablet: Michael Castor’s PiPad
I had mail from Jürgen Huber at Logi.cals , an Austrian software firm, who have been using a Raspberry Pi in a demo at trade fairs to show off logi.CAD 3 , their new, free, software tool for automation.
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Automated decanter
Carrie Anne wasn’t our only new starter on Monday: we’ve also welcomed Dave Honess to the team. Dave will be familiar to many of you as Davespice from our forums, where he’s one of our moderators; he’s also been helping me moderate the comments on this blog for a year or so now, and he’s a mod on the Freenode #raspberrypi IRC channel. Dave writes for The MagPi (as Davespice), and he’s behind the porting and uploading of lots of the retro games you’ll see at the Pi Store
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Welcome Dave!
Liz: Here’s a guest post from Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts , our brilliant hosts. Christmas this year saw…a LOT of traffic, with thousands and thousands of downloads of NOOBS and other images from our downloads page , alongside pageviews in the many hundreds of thousands on the rest of the website – this on a day when we were expecting you all to be ignoring the internet and socialising with your families
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Coping with Christmas – a guest post from our web hosts at Mythic Beasts