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Welcome Marc – our new Head of Curriculum

Yesterday we welcomed a new member of staff to the Foundation’s growing Education Team. Marc Scott is a former teacher, joining as our new Head of Curriculum

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Raspberry Pi and micro:bit need a HAT – ElectronicsWeekly.com

ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi and micro:bit need a HAT ElectronicsWeekly.com it seems to me that mains-powered display-enabled child-friendly Raspberry Pi would make a great host programmer for battery-sipping child-friendly microcontroller-like micro:bit. Micro:bit is programmed over Bluetooth, but also – I am guessing – over …

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How Raspberry Pi is priming the pump for a new generation of innovation – ITBusiness.ca (blog)

How Raspberry Pi is priming the pump for a new generation of innovation ITBusiness.ca (blog) One of the main platforms of learning IoT is Raspberry Pi (RasPi), a popular platform offering a full Linux server within a small platform for the lowest of costs. Raspberry Pi refers to a compute the size of a credit card plugged into a TV or computer …

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Got a Raspberry Pi? Meet its new best friend – BGR

BGR Got a Raspberry Pi ? Meet its new best friend BGR The Raspberry Pi mini computer, as you may already know, is an awesome tool for learning popular programming languages and building interactive projects.

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Autonomous recording for marine ecology

Cetacean species, including whales, dolphins and porpoises, are considered indicators of the health of marine ecosystems around the world. While a number are known to be endangered, a lack of data means that the population size and conservation status of many species are impossible to estimate. These animals are vulnerable to the effects of human activities and the noise they cause

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Raspberry Pi is a PoE switch for industrial control – ElectronicsWeekly.com

ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi is a PoE switch for industrial control ElectronicsWeekly.com An industrial application for the Raspberry Pi educational computer is as a power over Ethernet (PoE) switch for remote power over the communications link.

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Raspberry Jams bring Pi enthusiasts together – opensource.com

opensource.com Raspberry Jams bring Pi enthusiasts together opensource.com When the first Raspberry Pi came out in 2012, it was no surprise when people in the tech community started to organize events focused around using the device. Software developers, hardware engineers, makers, teachers, children, and parents alike …

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Rebroadcast Internet Radio on FM with a Raspberry Pi – Lifehacker

Lifehacker Rebroadcast Internet Radio on FM with a Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Internet radio's great, but you need an internet connected device to listen to it. If you have an old radio sitting around and you want to listen to some tunes, Make shows you how to rebroadcast those stations on the FM band using a Raspberry Pi .

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Learn to code for hardware with the Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle – The Next Web

The Next Web Learn to code for hardware with the Raspberry Pi Hacker Bundle The Next Web Schools around the world have adopted the Raspberry Pi as a tremendously effective platform for learning to code.

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Pimoroni is 3

For Pimoroni’s second birthday, we finally outgrew the old spring-storage workshop in Neepsend. After hunting for a while, we found a new home near the train station in Sheffield. The new Pirate Ship is almost 8,000 sq ft of workshop and office that works pretty well for us, especially since it’s close to Street Food Chef and the Rutland Arms

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