You met Lance Howarth, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (this means he heads up our charitable giving), when he joined us earlier in the autumn. Today Lance has some news for you – and a very silly hat
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Kids: we’re giving away 2000 Pi kits for your class, or for your home projects!
Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi Wired.co.uk University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi . Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as …
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December’s MagPi was released this morning , and it’s full of Christmas cheer. This month you’ll learn how to make your Pi sing carols with Sonic Pi; and you’ll find out about environmental monitoring, so you can keep your electricity bill down without having to turn off the tree lights. We’re very taken by the first in a new series on building your own quadcopter: and by the second installment from Project Curacao, where a Pi is dangling from a radio tower twelve degrees north of the equator working on environmental monitoring, which makes us feel the cold and dark in Cambridge something rotten.
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MagPi issue 19 – your free Raspberry Pi magazine, out now
Muktware Raspberry Pi was created to a solve talent crisis at Cambridge: Eben Upton …
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Raspberry Pi was created to a solve talent crisis at Cambridge: Eben Upton … – Muktware
Raspberry Pi developer said they only expected to sell 2000 – not 2 million Cambridge News One of the makers of the Raspberry Pi has said their ambition was to sell 2,000 of the tiny plug-in computers – as they near their two millionth sale.
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The University of York asked if we could send someone up to judge a Raspberry Pi contest they’d been running for people joining the Computer Science department over the summer break. Our very own Dr Gordon Hollingworth is a York alumnus, so we sent him to revisit his old stomping grounds (in one of his collection of stylish Raspberry Pi t-shirts – you can buy your own at the Swag Store ). Freshers were given a Raspberry Pi when they won a place at the university back in August, and had been spending the time before arriving in York working on two challenges.
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Blue Pi Thinking from the University of York
I just received an email from Nepal. Sakar is a member of Karkhana , a Kathmandu makerspace, and their Raspberry Pis have just experienced a day quite unlike that of any other Raspberry Pis in the world.
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Email of the month: worshipping Pis in Kathmandu
Raspberry Pi backs launch of online computing courses to teach tech skills V3.co.uk The first massive open online course (MOOC) intended to assist in the teaching and learning of the UK's computing curriculum has been launched. The course, set up through a joint partnership between exam board OCR, Cambridge University Press and the
Raspberry Pi , Cambridge University Press and OCR team up for free computing … Cambridge News A boost has been delivered to the teaching of computing in schools after three Cambridge institutions teamed up to offer free lessons for all
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