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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Happy second birthday to The MagPi!
Sandy Walsh thought it’d be cool to host a trivia night in his living room. Most of us would make do with paper, biros and shouting: but it’s from little ideas like this that splendidly grandiose Raspberry Pi projects are born. In this case , projects involving a shipment of Chinese bike handles and a very large amount of speaker wire
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Triviabox: a DIY quiz show setup
Welsh factory makes one millionth Raspberry Pi IDG News Service Both Raspberry Pi manufacturing partners – RS Components and Premier Farnell – have now re-shored all their production of the Raspberry Pi to the Welsh factory, which has now reached the millionth Pi milestone.With the Chinese-made machines, there are
Raspberry Pi slices off sales of 1.75 million CNET (blog) “Add these to the existing Chinese ones, and that makes one and three quarter million Raspberry Pis out there worldwide, the majority of them made right here at home,” the Raspberry Pi Foundation said. Designed for hobbyists, developers, and students …
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Raspberry Pi slices off sales of 1.75 million – CNET (blog)
We’ve reached a bit a landmark. As you’ll know if you’ve been following us since we started documenting what happens when you decide to make a tiny computer for education back in 2011, the first Raspberry Pis were made in China
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1.75 million sold so far – and 1 million made in the UK
Liz: I was going to post this tomorrow, but it’s so good I just couldn’t wait. We’ve just had some mail from Geert Maertens, from Anzegem in Belgium. He’s been working with a small group of volunteers to raise money to bring computing to a school in a remote area of Cameroon.
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Bringing computing to rural Cameroon
Inquirer More Raspberry Pi manufacturing moves back to the UK ZDNet UK distributor Premier Farnell, which owns Raspberry Pi -maker element14, announced on Friday that 100 percent of element14's manufacturing is now back in the UK, marking the completion of a transition away from Chinese manufacturing it began last …
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Sad news for collectors: unless you’re in China, you won’t be able to get your hands on one of these. We’ve been working on how to improve availability of the Raspberry Pi in China. China represents a massive potential market for the Pi, and one which comes with its own unique set of challenges
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Red Pi at night
Star Wars fan uses Raspberry Pi to build working R2-D2 (video) Pocket-lint.com As a birthday present for his girlfriend, Chinese Star Wars fan greensheller built a working R2-D2 robot using just an old, broken interactive toy version of the movie droid, a Raspberry Pi running Raspian software, and some bits and bobs he bought online. Open Source Computing Brings Everybody's Favorite Droid To Life WebProNews Hacked R2-D2 Toy Now Almost Rivals Skywalker's On-Screen Companion Gizmodo all 3 news articles