As many of you know, our very own Carrie Anne Philbin spent most of last year writing Adventures in Raspberry Pi . For some reason she keeps reminding me that, with 4.8 stars out of 5, it’s currently the highest-rated Raspberry Pi book on Amazon; I can’t imagine why . Five star, schmive star The last few chapters of the book concentrate on hardware interfacing using the Pi, and require a variety of electronic components.
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Adventures in Raspberry Pi kits in the Swag Store
A few days ago, we pushed out some more documentation for the forthcoming Compute Module and Compute Module IO Board, which together make up the Compute Module Development Kit. This new documentation covers power supply and sequencing requirements, temperature limits, and the process for writing an operating system image onto a module; and provides a summary of the various interfaces available on the module edge connector.
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More Compute Module docs, and an interview with James
Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Injection Moulded Case Design Process Unveiled Geeky gadgets Adafruit has designed to case to fit both Model A and B versions of the Raspberry Pi and provides access for a GPIO ribbon cable so you can connect a Pi Cobbler if desired.
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You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our team were away in San Francisco last week for Maker Faire. Clive, Carrie Anne and Alex Bradbury joined forces with Pimoroni and ran a stall promoting Raspberry Pi and its use in education. Here’s a video MAKE put out, featuring Clive talking about some of our recent developments such as the free educational material for everyone to teach , learn and make with Raspberry Pi: The team spoke to a lot of people at Maker Faire, gave talks, visited hackspaces and crammed a lot of outreach in to the trip – so once they’ve recovered we’ll be sharing their experiences and adventures in further blog posts.
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‘Educating with Raspberry Pi’ at Maker Faire
Gizmodo UK 25MB is All You Need for the PiCore 5.3 Raspberry Pi Linux OS Gizmodo UK With a pint-sized PC like the Raspberry Pi , it's fitting that it be paired with similarly small software.
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Gizmodo UK PiCore 5.3 Linux is a 25MB operating system for the Raspberry Pi Liliputing The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer. Tiny Core Linux is a tiny operating system designed to offer the bare minimum you need to get started while taking up as little disk space as possible.
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Digital Trends Otto is the Raspberry Pi camera that insists you hack it, so it can do awesome … Digital Trends Powering the camera is actually a mini computer, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, a smaller version of the Raspberry Pi Model B; according to the company, the Otto is the first product to be powered by the module, and the small size allows the camera …
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Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Case4-Kits and HapPi-Robot (video) Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts looking for affordable robot kits and cases for the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC that are both strong and lightweight might be interested in a new solution created by TLBRC and Kre8 based in Northampton in the UK. The Raspberry
YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk drives.
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Back to the Future theme tune, played by disk drives
Pi-Tab Transforms Your Raspberry Pi Into A Tablet (Video) Geeky gadgets Dr William Lockitt has created a new kit using the Raspberry Pi that transforms the mini PC into a 7 inch tablet powered by the Raspberry Pi minicomputer. The new Pi-Tab tablet has been created to eliminate the need for the wires that the R-Pi requires ..
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