The Guardian David Braben on Elite, Kickstarter and Raspberry Pi The Guardian There is also Raspberry Pi , the mini-PC designed by Eben Upton and several colleagues from the University of Cambridge, and built with Braben's assistance.
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David Braben on Elite, Kickstarter and Raspberry Pi – The Guardian
Pootling around the Raspberry Pi forums late last night, I found something that rightfully shouldn’t exist. It’s a two-player chess game for the Pi – nothing so unusual there – written in assembly language , with no OS.
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Chess. Bare metal assembly language chess.
Telegraph.co.uk Raspberry Pi inventor joins silver medal table Telegraph.co.uk Proceeds from sales of the Cambridge-developed device – which retails for as little as $25 (£16.26) – go to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charity. The introduction of the computer in February last year was met with such strong demand that the …
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The Hindu A byte of Raspberry Pi The Hindu So when a foundation supported by Cambridge University's computer lab and tech firm Broadcom planned to make and market a low-priced computer, they chose “Raspberry” for themselves and Raspberry Pi (short for Python) for their product.
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A byte of Raspberry Pi – The Hindu
Do you remember the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks this website was undergoing a few months ago?
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Guest post from Mythic Beasts: how we dealt with those DDoS attacks
We’ve seen a number of photographers who have taken to the Pi as a way to bring down the cost of the sort of kit that was, pre-Pi, outside the budgets of mere mortals.
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Gigapi: a Raspberry Pi rig for gigapixel photography
We’re celebrating today: it’s the 75th anniversary of the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory. From its beginnings in 1938 as the Mathematical Laboratory, it’s provided the foundations for much of our computing history; Raspberry Pi is only one of hundreds of successful business set up by academics and alumni, and we’re very proud to be associated with the Lab. The old Mathematical Lab, on the New Museums Site in the centre of Cambridge The University of Cambridge Computer Lab today: the William Gates Building.
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University of Cambridge Computer Lab 75th anniversary
BBC News In pictures: How Cambridge Computer Lab changed the world BBC News The successful prototype was built within a week. Raspberry Pi , copyright University of Cambridge The latest success to come from the Computer Lab is a cheap microcomputer designed to teach children about programming
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In pictures: How Cambridge Computer Lab changed the world – BBC News
Liz: Tomorrow, Eben and I are getting up at sparrowfart to go and stand in a field with Dave Akerman, where we will “help” him launch a balloon equipped with a Pi. This time the balloon, rather than going for an altitude record, is intended to travel a long distance laterally; we’re hoping it’ll make it to Poland in the 24 hours we have before its batteries run out
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Guest post: more high altitude ballooning from Dave Akerman
Raspberry Pi and the new computer science kids Deutsche Welle Eben Upton, a former University of Cambridge professor and co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, agrees.
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