Liz: As some of you clever people have pointed out, the new Pi Zero with camera connector might have been designed with one person very much in mind. That person’s Dave “high-altitude ballooning” Akerman
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A new high-altitude ballooning record
It’s not long to BETT now where the Foundation education team will spend four whole earth days doing great works. As well as a non-stop stand schedule of talks, demos and activities we’ve also got a number of off-stand monkeyshines including two live stage shows by Fran Scott , who you may have seen recently on the Royal Institution Christmas lectures
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Fran Scott’s #Error404 show at BETT
Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave has been sending Raspberry Pis to the stratosphere under weather balloons since we launched the Pi in 2012, and his work in helping schools develop their own in-house space programs has been fantastic to watch
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Pi in the Sky: hardware for high-altitude balloonists from Dave Akerman
Heston Blumenthal’s production team got in touch last year to talk to us about an idea they’d had for his new series, the first episode of which was going to be based around pies.
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Heston, we have a potato.
This is just gorgeous. A hand-made, tiny version of the house from Pixar’s Up , a bouquet of helium balloons, a Raspberry Pi, and Paris.
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Upstagram – live photos from a tiny house floating over Paris