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The Wheel of (BASIC) Excuses

Back in the day, over at IEEE Spectrum magazine , the editorial elves had a sheet of paper stuck on a wall, with a spinning arm which pointed to any number of plausible excuses for not having handed in homework an article in time. The offices were renovated last year, and Stephen Cass thought that it was time to update the paper version, bringing it kicking and screaming into the 1980s with a Raspberry Pi-based BASIC system. You can’t fit many excuses on wheel drawn on a sheet of paper.

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October Raspberry Pi jam – Torquay Herald Express

October Raspberry Pi jam Torquay Herald Express 2. Sort program, this is was a demo of the article that Tom Brough wrote yesterday You can read the info http://www.dcglug.org.uk/network-sort-algorithm-animation/ If you would like to see the demo come to the Jam on the 8th November 2014.

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Smartphone rocket launcher

Teenage electronics enthusiast Lewis Callaway thought that an ad in which actors launch rockets from their iPhones was really cool, but he couldn’t find out how it was done, so he decided to start from scratch himself, using (of course) a Raspberry Pi. Model rockets are launched by passing an electric current through an igniter, a device that includes a thin piece of wire in contact with the rocket’s propellant; the current causes the wire to heat up, igniting the propellant. Lewis used a relay board and jumper leads to complete the circuit between a 9V battery and the model rocket’s igniter, and connected power and signal wires between the relay board and his Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins so he could flip the switch on the 9V circuit with a signal from the GPIO

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UNICEF Pi Project to Educate Syrian Children in Lebanon

Ben: here’s a guest post from one of our great community members, Alex Eames, who’s providing his Kickstarter-funded HDMIPi screens to a UNICE education project in Lebanon. At the end of December 2013 James Cranwell-Ward ( @jcranwellward ) a Technologist working for UNICEF Lebanon emailed us about HDMIPi .

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Happy second birthday to The MagPi!

We were amazed to learn that this month’s edition represents The MagPi’s second anniversary. The MagPi is the Raspberry Pi magazine, produced by the community for the community; it has no association with us at the Foundation (besides the fact that we love it and think it’s the best thing since sliced maltloaf)

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Bitcoin mining with ASIC mining chips and Raspberry Pi with custom software – Next Big Future

Bitcoin mining with ASIC mining chips and Raspberry Pi with custom software Next Big Future While BitFury offers muscle, Raspberry Pi provides the brains. Carlson and his colleagues wrote their own mining software for the Pi, which communicates with the chips on each rig. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator …

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Exeter Raspberry Pi jam 22/3/2014 – Torquay Herald Express

Torquay Herald Express Exeter Raspberry Pi jam 22/3/2014 Torquay Herald Express If you are in school ask your teacher about the Raspberry Pi or come along to the Torbay Pi jam on Saturday 12th April 2014, 13:00 to 15:00 at Paignton Library. Artile by Paul Sutton @zleap14. Tweet this article

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The MagPi issue 14, out today!

Your free copy of The MagPi , the magazine created by the Raspberry Pi community, is available from today. This month’s cover star is the camera board; there’s an article from our very own JamesH, who has contributed a huge amount of work to the development of the board, and talks new users through the device

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The Kingdom of Bhutan’s first Pi: a Khan Academy server

We were chatting to Natasha Lomas from TechCrunch (no relation to our own Pete) last week about the distribution of Raspberry Pis across the world.

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