Our very own Matthew Bennett talks about the last two years with Raspberry Pi and his recent educational workshop on “Excitement in Computer Programming”.
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Guest Blog #4: Excitement in Computer Programming
Laika is a modular add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that allows control of motors, switches, lamps, robots and more. There are plenty of great hardware control boards out there for the Raspberry Pi but we especially like this one because of the educational focus .There’s lots more information on what it can do and how you can use it on their Kickstarter page
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Laika: a hardware control platform for the Raspberry Pi
We’ve been very keen to see schools set up high altitude ballooning (HAB) projects with the Pi.
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High Altitude Ballooning, sixth-form style
Raspberry Pi man on British computer science shakeup: Microsoft is the good guy TechRadar UK Raspberry Pi 's campaign to breathe new life into computer science is well on track, but founder Eben Upton knows that a shake-up of the education system is the real key to a brighter future for Britain's tech industry. Harsh (but fair) words have been …
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Raspberry ( Pi ) Jamboree heads to Education Innovation Exhibition ElectronicsWeekly.com (blog) The Jamboree will provide hands-on Raspberry Pi workshops to 350 teachers and educators, with the sessions helping to educate t5he educators, filling – they believe – a critical gap in the current ICT curriculum (with coding-focused revisions being … and more
Today’s been a bit unlike most Tuesdays at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Today we’re the recipients of a very generous grant from Google Giving, which will provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model Bs for schoolkids around the UK
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15,000 Raspberry Pis for UK schools – thanks Google!