If you own a Raspberry Pi 2, congratulations: you’re also the proud owner of an elegant demonstration of the photoelectric effect! At the weekend, Peter Onion, a veteran of our forums and of Raspberry Jams in Cambridge, Bletchley and surrounding areas (visible, costumed, in the background of this photo at the Christmas CamJam), discovered what we think might be the most adorable bug we’ve ever come across.
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Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson
Some of you will be aware that we’ve been working on a new, more responsive and more modern desktop experience for the Raspberry Pi. We thought you might like an update on where we are with the project. The chip at the heart of the Raspberry Pi, BCM2835, contains an extremely powerful and flexible hardware video scaler (HVS), which can be used to assemble a stack of windows on the fly for output to the screen
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Preview the upcoming Maynard desktop
A quick post today: I’m pretty behind on work. (I’ve wasted most of today trying to find a new hotel room in San Francisco that, unlike the one I slept in last night, doesn’t have biting insects. I have now found one, and a wifi connection
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A map of your Pi
Bud Industries Raspberry Pi Case Named a Top 101 Component by Electronic … HispanicBusiness.com CLEVELAND –(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bud Industries , a leading manufacturer of plastic enclosures for electronics, has earned a position on Electronic Design's 2013 Top 101 Components for its case for the Raspberry Pi , a credit-card size microcomputer