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The story of Raspberry Pi – and a masterclass with Eben

The Centre for Computing History , with help from the Heritage Lottery fund, conducted a video interview about the story of Raspberry Pi with our very own Eben Upton (founder, Raspberry Pi Trading CEO, fond of Jaffa Cakes) a few months ago. It’s just been made live – if you want to dive deep into the story of Raspberry Pi, this one’s for you. Eben Upton – The Story of Raspberry Pi Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, talks about the Raspberry Pi, how it came to be and the ups and downs of bringing his £25 computer to market.

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Raspberry Pi and Arduino in industrial applications – Embedded Computing Design (blog)

Embedded Computing Design (blog) Raspberry Pi and Arduino in industrial applications Embedded Computing Design (blog) Taking things a few steps further, a technician I worked with at another company was always eager to learn something new, and devised a way to set up a Raspberry Pi to collect data over the plant network from a PLC that was running a test station.

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Is Raspberry Pi Ready for IoT Primetime? myDevices Says Yes – The VAR Guy

The VAR Guy Is Raspberry Pi Ready for IoT Primetime? myDevices Says Yes The VAR Guy The new platform, called Cayenne, provides a user-friendly toolset for connecting Raspberry Pi hardware to the Internet and configuring it to communicate with other devices and sensors.

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Raspberry Pi IoT prototyping, remote management on the fly – Embedded Computing Design

Embedded Computing Design Raspberry Pi IoT prototyping, remote management on the fly Embedded Computing Design If you're like me, you have low-cost development boards strewn across on your desk, packed into drawers, and stacked on shelves.

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Rolling out some Raspberry Pi and Arduino maker projects at Fab Fest – Embedded Computing Design (blog)

Rolling out some Raspberry Pi and Arduino maker projects at Fab Fest Embedded Computing Design (blog) Watch this video that takes you through the steps to get your Raspberry Pi to speak. In the video, the block that wraps the calls to eSpeak library is shown in Figure 1.

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Python in Education – free e-book from O’Reilly

This week PyCon is going on in Montreal – it’s the big worldwide Python conference – and for the occasion, O’Reilly asked our friend Nicholas Tollervey to write a free short book on Python in Education . Click to download the book for free The book tells the story of Python, why Python is a good language for learning, how its community gives great support, and covers Raspberry Pi as a case study

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I spy… Carrie Anne on BBC Technobabble

We were very excited to welcome children’s TV presenter Frankie Vu from CBBC’s Technobabble , a TV show for children dedicated to explaining how technology works in a fun way, to Pi Towers towards the end of 2014 to talk about how computers are often found inside lots of different appliances, toys, and products. In an  episode  dedicated to Computing , Carrie Anne demonstrates some of our fun projects such as the weather station project and hamster party cam , both of which you can make and build with your students thanks to our free resources

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Kano Ships Its First 18000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits, Fueled By $1.5M … – TechCrunch (blog)

TechCrunch (blog) Kano Ships Its First 18000 Learn-To-Code Computer Kits, Fueled By $1.5M … TechCrunch (blog) Kano Computing, a startup that plays in the learn to code space by adding a step-by-step hand-holding layer atop the Raspberry Pi single-board microcomputer to make hacking around with code and learning about computational thinking child's play, has

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Raspberry Pi gets a serious, more powerful, upgradeable rival – Geek

Geek Raspberry Pi gets a serious, more powerful, upgradeable rival Geek The Raspberry Pi is an amazing little board, and it's provided the computing power for loads of awesome geeky creations — but just think what the RPi could do with a little more muscle. The engineers at SolidRun did, and they decided to whip up their …

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