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Pay What You Want for Make’s Collection of Arduino and Raspberry Pi Books – Lifehacker

Lifehacker Pay What You Want for Make's Collection of Arduino and Raspberry Pi Books Lifehacker There's all kinds of ways to get started with electronics, but if you're looking for a collection of books, Humble Book Bundle has several of Make's electronics books—including its Raspberry Pi and Arduino books—for a pay whatever you want bundle. and more »

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Make: and Humble Bundle Books Team Up to Focus on Raspberry Pi and Arduino – Marketwired (press release)

Make: and Humble Bundle Books Team Up to Focus on Raspberry Pi and Arduino Marketwired (press release) SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Dec 2, 2015) – Snap up great deals on the best new books from Make: and purchase your favorite issues of Make: magazine at the price you want to pay. Make: is offering great new ebook bundles, valued at $276, … and more »

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Get your Windows 10 preview for Raspberry Pi 2 while it’s hot – Engadget

Engadget Get your Windows 10 preview for Raspberry Pi 2 while it's hot Engadget Day one of Microsoft's Build 2015 conference is in the books, but that doesn't mean the news has stopped. The Windows 10 IoT Core Insider developer preview (phew!) has launched for small devices including the Raspberry Pi 2. Redmond admits that it's ..

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Adventures in Minecraft

Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale will be familiar to many readers of this blog, whether from the excellent Raspberry Pi and Minecraft resources they’ve authored or from their work with schools, code clubs and Raspberry Jams. Now they’ve teamed up to write a fantastic new book, hot off the press this week. Adventures in Minecraft teaches young people to customise their Minecraft world with amazing structures and new gaming experiences, developing Python programming skills along the way.

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Community, coffee and classrooms in Nicaragua

Liz: Today’s guest post is from David Mitchell, who emailed me last week about some work he’s been doing in Nicaragua with the Raspberry Pi, both at a community level and in a local business environment. We thought that what he’s doing is a real exemplar of how Raspberry Pi can offer whole communities a let up, both economically and in education.

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Books, the digitising and text-to-speechifying thereof

A couple of books projects for you today. One is simple, practical and of great use to the visually-impaired. The other is over-complicated, and a little bit nuts; nonetheless, we think it’s rather wonderful; and actually kind of useful if you’ve got a lot of patience.

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Get Carrie Anne’s book for six quid! (And a competition!)

A lot of you have had huge success in the last few months using our very own Carrie Anne Philbin’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi as a resource for kids of all ages. It’s engaging, friendly and works really well in getting kids excited and confident about using their Raspberry Pi. So much so that we’ve found schools are ordering classroom sets; so are after-school clubs, and we’ve had amazing feedback from kids and their parents

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Carrie Anne Philbin’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi

We are huge, giant, enormous fans of Carrie Anne Philbin. Carrie Anne’s a pioneering computing teacher, whose Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube series we can’t say enough good things about

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Kano – Kickstart a Pi kit for beginners

We first met Alex Klein shortly after we’d launched the Raspberry Pi, when he was working for Newsweek and came to visit to write a story about us. Next we’d heard, he’d left Newsweek to start a company with Raspberry Pi at its heart.

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