This week, just nine weeks after its launch, we will ship the 250,000th Pi Zero W into the market. As well as hitting that pretty impressive milestone, today we are announcing 13 new Raspberry Pi Zero distributors, so you should find it much easier to get hold of a unit. This significantly extends the reach we can achieve with Pi Zero and Pi Zero W across the globe.
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250,000 Pi Zero W units shipped and more Pi Zero distributors announced
Access to clean, safe drinking water is a global problem: as water.org notes, 663 million people lack access to water that’s safe to drink. That’s twice the population of the United States, or one person in every ten. Additionally, a recent review of rural water system sustainability in eight countries in Africa, South Asia, and Central America found an average water project failure rate of 20-40 percent
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Photocatalysis with a Raspberry Pi
htxt.africa Show off your Raspberry Pi project at the Geekulcha MakerHangout htxt.africa What are you making? We shall choose about 15 Makers in Africa who will showcase their Raspberry Pi projects during the Webina,” explained Tiyani Nghonyama, COO and developer at Geekulcha. The showcase will coincide with a Raspberry Pi Hack Day …
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Show off your Raspberry Pi project at the Geekulcha MakerHangout – htxt.africa
African free education project uses Raspberry Pi ElectronicsWeekly.com library Raspberry Pi is being used as a low cost web-server platform for an ambitious project to provide schools and colleges in Africa access to online libraries of articles, books and videos for education. As part of the Kwiizi project a digital …
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Oracle Academy and Raspberry Pi offer new initiative for African schools Developing Telecoms (press release) (blog) Oracle Academy and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have partnered on a project to join thousands of schools in Africa and around the world in a global science experiment. The initiative, known as Oracle Raspberry Pi Weather Station for Schools, will …
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Tech City News Oracle Academy and Raspberry Pi launch global interdisciplinary computing … Tech City News Participating schools will receive a Raspberry Pi hardware kit for students to build and operate their own weather station with the aim of gaining valuable skills spanning computing, meteorology and geography
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At Raspberry Pi, we’re interested in many of the different ways that computers and education converge. To hear more about a new approach, I’ve invited Mark Pavlyukovskyy to write about his project, Piper, which you can find on Kickstarter now . Here’s Mark: I was a junior in college when I first heard about the Raspberry Pi
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Piper: Learning electronics with Minecraft
Forbes Rotarian Hopes To Revolutionize Education In Rural Kenya With 'Rachel' and … Forbes Bob has a plan to revolutionize education in Kenya and across Sub-Saharan Africa with a gadget called a Raspberry Pi developed in the UK by a team from Cambridge's Computer Laboratory. The gadget is a tiny, radically affordable computer.
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Liz: If you’re a regular reader, you’ll have noticed more and more frequent mentions over the last year of a piece of kit called RACHEL-Pi.
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RACHEL-Pi – delivering education worldwide
Alan O’Donohoe writes: I’m often asked how Raspberry Jam started, how the jam spread so quickly, and why I was motivated to start this movement. So here’s a little history of the birth of the Raspberry jam movement. On the 11th February 2012, I organised our very first Hack To The Future event [ film | blogpost ] at my school, Our Lady’s Catholic High School in Preston.
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In the beginning…