Raspberry Jamboree 2014

Alan O’Donohoe writes: I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our Raspberry Jam community for supporting our OCR Raspberry Jamboree, the second annual convention to share the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi community. I’d also like to thank our sponsors OCR, Pimoroni, CPC, Cyntech, ModMyPi, Exa Education, MathWorks, BCS Manchester, MagPi Magazine, Raspberry Pi Geek and Ciseco. In particular I also wish to thank Lisa Mather for organising an excellent party and Dawn Hewitson particularly for support with the hack day.

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Raspberry Pi Bullet Time Rig: Frozen Pi – Technabob (blog)

Technabob (blog) Raspberry Pi Bullet Time Rig: Frozen Pi Technabob (blog) The folks at PiFace – makers of hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi – wanted to make a camera rig that could create the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix, but they didn't want to spend thousands of dollars on cameras. Naturally their …

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Two awesome videos to help you celebrate Raspberry Pi’s 2nd birthday – Ars Technica

Two awesome videos to help you celebrate Raspberry Pi's 2nd birthday Ars Technica The Raspberry Pi launched to great fanfare on Feb. 29, 2012, and since then it has sold more than 2.5 million units in its first two years of life. Available for just $25 or $35, the tiny ARM-based computer has inspired hobbyists to build all manner of ..

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Raspberry Pi video stack open-sourced by Broadcom – Geek

Geek Raspberry Pi video stack open-sourced by Broadcom Geek Your Raspberry Pi is about to start doing several exciting new tricks, as Broadcom decided to finally open source a sister chip to the BCM2835 onboard every RasPi. It's been a short, chaotic ride for the inexpensive computer we know as the Raspberry Pi .

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Get Quake III running on Raspberry Pi using Broadcom’s open-source GPU … – Register

Ars Technica Get Quake III running on Raspberry Pi using Broadcom's open-source GPU … Register Broadcom has released open-source drivers and documentation for the graphics processor that's used in the Raspberry Pi microcomputer, among other devices. “To date, there's been a dearth of documentation and vendor-developed open source drivers for

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Raspberry Pi scores in Broadcom bid for openness – SlashGear

SlashGear Raspberry Pi scores in Broadcom bid for openness SlashGear Raspberry Pi has claimed itself an early birthday present today (technically it was launched on the 29th, but there's no such day this year), praising a newly announced move by Broadcom after hearing the long-lamented plight of developers: it has …

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Make a Portable Raspberry Pi Power Supply from an Old Drill Battery – Lifehacker

Make a Portable Raspberry Pi Power Supply from an Old Drill Battery Lifehacker The best thing about the Raspberry Pi is the fact that it's small and doesn't consume a lot of power, but it's still missing a great solution to make the Pi portable. If you're looking for a lot of juice, Make shows you how to convert an old battery …

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Raspberry Pi marks 2nd birthday with plan for open source graphics driver – Ars Technica

Ars Technica Raspberry Pi marks 2nd birthday with plan for open source graphics driver Ars Technica The Raspberry Pi Foundation, with help from chipmaker Broadcom, is laying out a path toward an open source graphics driver for the tiny computer. Broadcom today “announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a

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A birthday present from Broadcom

Two years ago today*, the Raspberry Pi Model B went on sale, selling 100,000 units on the first day. Since then, over 2.5 million Raspberry Pis have found homes with hobbyists, children and professional engineers around the world. Each Pi in this first pallet now has over 1250 friends

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