Raspberry Pi becomes Raspberry PC via Mini-ITX carrier LXer (press release) Raspberry Pi embedded development firm Geekroo has surpassed its Kickstarter funding goal for a Mini-ITX board and case that extends the RPi into a full-fledged computer (SBC). The Fairywren is equipped with a 24-pin ATX power supply connector,
Control Your Microwave with the Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Web developer Nathan Broadbent hacked his microwave into something awesome. The brains behind it? Yup, the inexpensive Raspberry Pi .
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At this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, Lincoln University’s digital garden, which changed the way it looked depending on what people tweeted, sent messages back to people interacting with it, and did all kinds of interesting things with twenty servo motors and a lot of hinges, won a gold medal. See if you can guess what was powering it. We were sent some BBC news coverage, which, sadly, doesn’t actually mention the Pi behind the scenes (although it is beyond delightful for us to see Ringo Starr looking interestedly at it) – but you can read more about the Pi’s involvement, and the philosophy behind the garden, over at the Times Educational Supplement
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Build your first game using Scratch on the Raspberry Pi TechRadar UK You can use a wide range of programming languages with the Raspberry Pi , but here we're going to use Scratch. It's a great beginner's language, as it introduces many of the concepts of programming while at the same time being easy to use
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Raspberry Pi man on British computer science shakeup: Microsoft is the good guy TechRadar UK Raspberry Pi 's campaign to breathe new life into computer science is well on track, but founder Eben Upton knows that a shake-up of the education system is the real key to a brighter future for Britain's tech industry. Harsh (but fair) words have been …
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Control Your Microwave With The Raspberry Pi Lifehacker Australia Web developer Nathan Broadbent hacked his microwave into something awesome. The brains behind it? Yes, the inexpensive Raspberry Pi
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ExtremeTech $99 ARM-based Utilite gives the Raspberry Pi some competition ExtremeTech Cheap, “dedicated” computers are all the rage these days, in large part thanks to the $25 and $35 Raspberry Pi models.
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How Raspberry Pi taught British tech to be world-class TechRadar UK In some places, people trade arms. In others, drugs are smuggled across borders
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ZDNet (blog) Meet Utilite, new Raspberry Pi rival ZDNet (blog) Cheap, low-end PCs — such as the Raspberry Pi and Parallella — have become quite popular with do-it-yourself fans. Now, CompuLab, an Israeli computer OEM, is throwing its hat into the ring with its $99 Utilite mini-PC, which might also serve … CompuLab adds the Utilite $99 quad-core tiny Ubuntu PC to its line-up Geek (blog) This ARM-Based Ubuntu Box Only Costs $100 Gizmodo Utilite mini PC starts at $99, scales up to quad-core ARM and 512GB SSD TechSpot all 13 news articles