Liz: Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, makes a habit of finding interesting people for us to talk to. She works with the creative industries on supporting their work with the Pi, and introducing people who aren’t the usual maths/physics suspects to computing – and while she does that, she discovers some really amazing projects
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KittenGroomer/CIRClean – data security for journalists and activists
One of the biggest (and nicest) surprises for us over the last two years has been the Raspberry Pi project’s popularity outside the UK. Over three quarters of our sales are now to overseas customers, and while the US and mainland Europe are our largest markets (with honorable mentions to Australia, New Zealand and Japan), there’s also been a lot of interest from the developing world. Robotics with Raspberry Pi at Kids Hacker Camp, iHub Nairobi .
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More on Raspberry Pi in Africa
With a mix of Arduino, Raspberry Pi and fun, Maker Box hopes to bolster Africa … ZDNet Each Maker Box contains a Raspberry Pi , an Adruino controller, an RFID starter kit, a soldering station and several sensors and other tools
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With a mix of Arduino, Raspberry Pi and fun, Maker Box hopes to bolster Africa … – ZDNet
Wall Street Journal (blog) Raspberry Pi Helping to Save the Rhino Wall Street Journal (blog) Protecting endangered species from poachers and helping track the migration habits of animals in Africa has to be one of the most glamorous uses of the Raspberry Pi . The credit-card-sized computer, developed in Cambridge, U.K., sits at the heart of a … and more
Liz: I was going to post this tomorrow, but it’s so good I just couldn’t wait. We’ve just had some mail from Geert Maertens, from Anzegem in Belgium. He’s been working with a small group of volunteers to raise money to bring computing to a school in a remote area of Cameroon.
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Bringing computing to rural Cameroon