We’ve been nominated for the People’s Choice Award in next week’s Index Award: Design to Improve Life. The competition makers have encouraged us to share the news with you, and we’d be really grateful if you could visit CNN’s page about the awards and click on the Pi button. The Index Awards are a very big deal for us: they’re the world’s biggest design awards, and we were overwhelmed to be told we were finalists in this year’s event.
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Conservation, hackspaces and Raspberry Pis. And sharks.
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Long term, deep water, satellite connected ocean monitoring system
You may have noticed that a little while ago, we quietly withdrew Raspberry Pi branded t-shirts from sale. Since then, we’ve been working on a reboot of the store .
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MAKE held a Raspberry Pi Design competition with MCM Electronics for US-based Pi owners, and have just released the results. I’m not sure what’s more impressive: the outstanding quality of the entries, or the fact that even though we spend much of the day furiously googling for new Pi projects, many of the submissions were new to us here at the Foundation. It’s great for us to watch other organisations running contests like this: not least because it’s a real relief not to have to judge them ourselves! The Grand Prize went to Intonarumori, a collection of magic sound boxes made by a hacker/art collective called urbanSTEW.
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MAKE and MCM Raspberry Pi Design Competition: the winners!
bit-tech.net UDOO looks to take on Arduino, Raspberry Pi bit-tech.net Dubbed UDOO – to be pronounced, the project's founders explain, as 'you do' – the design combines two already successful projects: the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino Due. For those not familiar, the Raspberry Pi is an impressive single-board computer …
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Alan O’Donohoe writes: You may already know that only 6 months ago, I set up this Raspberry Jam network called to help teachers, parents, childen and learners of all ages to understand the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi computer. In a short space of a few months, this has spread to 40 groups around the UK and many more around the World
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Webcast – Raspberry Jamboree LIVE
To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main manufacturing distributors, are releasing a limited edition of 1000 blue Raspberry Pis. These Pis are very cute: there’s something really handsome about that blue. They come with a certificate of authenticity signed by Eben and a matching blue case from One Nine Design in Wales; and blue, as drinkers of Slush Puppy should be aware, is the canonical colour of raspberry flavouring
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The Guardian Raspberry Pi and royal treasures – the week in art The Guardian What we learned this week. That the sale of the controversial Banksy mural, stripped from Poundland in Haringey only to turn up at auction in Miami, was put on hold at the last minute
Gizmodo UK Genius With a Raspberry Pi ? You Might Want to Enter This Gizmodo UK The Raspberry Pi truly is a mini-marvel, and it's ignited hackers everywhere — people can make almost anything with it, including sending the thing into space. In fact, it's gotten so mainstream that even the Design Museum is holding Pi-hacking ..
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Digital Arts Online Create a Raspberry Pi project and have it shown in the Design Museum Digital Arts Online The Design Museum is asking the public to enter their home-made Raspberry Pi inventions into a competition to go on display in the forthcoming Designs of the Year exhibition. The Raspberry Pi is cheap and tiny single-board computer that's designed to … Genius With a Raspberry Pi ?
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