Hackaday Czech Out Raspberry Pi Riding the Rails Hackaday If you were wandering around Prague this Christmas season you may have spotted a Raspberry Pi 2 controlled Christmas tree. But you had to look quick because it was on the back of a special tram car that lubricates the rails around the city to reduce noise.
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Czech Out Raspberry Pi Riding the Rails – Hackaday
Music hacks are my favourite hacks of all, and this one had me bounding around the office with the video below playing on my laptop so I could share it with people yesterday. Meet Quaver, the multiplayer piano. With a Raspberry Pi, some magnetic pickups, and the open-source Sooper Looper (which I am downloading as soon as I have finished writing this post), Mike and Sean from MajorMega hacked an old upright piano into an instrument that can loop up to four separate tracks, and then upload your results to the internet to be listened to when you get home
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Quaver, the analogue looping piano
At Raspberry Pi, we’re interested in many of the different ways that computers and education converge. To hear more about a new approach, I’ve invited Mark Pavlyukovskyy to write about his project, Piper, which you can find on Kickstarter now . Here’s Mark: I was a junior in college when I first heard about the Raspberry Pi
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Piper: Learning electronics with Minecraft
Raspberry Pi trumps Amstrad as fastest-selling British computer CITY A.M. While Amstrad's PC range remains the biggest-selling British computer, with 12m sold in the 1980s and 1990s, the Raspberry Pi's rapid adoption by schools, computer enthusiasts and industry has soared in the past three years
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Raspberry Pi trumps Amstrad as fastest-selling British computer – CITY A.M.
We were directed to a Facebook page from Hong Kong this week. It’s been set up by one of the people involved in the peaceful demonstrations that are being called the Umbrella Revolution , protesting about Beijing’s insistence on vetting and controlling the list of candidates for they city’s Chief Executive, effectively preventing free elections in Hong Kong. Our very own Dave Honess is in Hong Kong this week (nothing to do with the demonstrations – he’s gone to see some Hong Kong friends for a holiday that’s been planned for a long time).
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Chinese Democracy
Hey all – Rachel here! I have spent the last year talking with lots of artists who are making amazing things with Raspberry Pis. Every day my inbox is PINGing with exciting progress news. So I’m going to start showcasing some of these projects on the blog
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Art Showcase: Binaudios
Raspberry Pi chips in sales rise for distributor Premier Farnell CITY A.M. ELECTRONICS distributor Premier Farnell yesterday said the Raspberry Pi had helped drive sales in the three months to 3 November. The firm said the gadget, which allows users to build a computer from a basic credit card-sized motherboard, pushed sales
Microsoft man and Raspberry Pi both get Silver Medals Cambridge News He currently works at Broadcom in the city, while his wife, Liz, friends and colleagues runs the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which sold out within a few minutes of launching its Model B and took more than 100,000 pre-orders. To date more than 1.3 million …
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Microsoft man and Raspberry Pi both get Silver Medals – Cambridge News