Here at Pi Towers, Astro Pi fever is taking hold! Over the last few weeks there have been a number of things happening which we’re really excited about, so it’s time for an update. The first and most crucial bit of news for those of you furiously writing your competition entries is that you now have just a little more time
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Astro Pi Mission Update 3
The blog today is that there is no blog today. It’s Spring bank holiday here in the UK which means that we are all too busy rolling cheeses down hills, re-enacting obscure battles against baddies and doing stuff like this: Also, the education team are all en route to York for Picademy North .
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Bank Holiday kind of blog
Having looked at the chunky outside goodness of the Astro Pi case yesterday it seems only fair to take another look at the heart of the Astro Pi, the Sense HAT .
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The Sense HAT: headgear for the terminally curious
Next stop on the great Raspberry Pi Education Team Tour of Great Britain is the South West of England ! That’s right: we’re taking Picademy , the offical Raspberry Pi Professional Development for course for Teachers, on the road again, thanks to our friends at Exeter Library in Devon! I’m already packing my bucket, spade and kiss-me-quick hat. As always, Picademy is completely free to attend .
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Picademy South West
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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Python in Education – free e-book from O’Reilly
Recently you may have seen some of the awesome things that Dave Akerman has been doing with Raspberry Pi and Balloons . For the eclipse he was able to capture this image from his high altitude payload. Dave who’s been doing high altitude flights for some time has racked up some pretty impressive bragging rights including the first Raspberry Pi (B, A and A+) in near space
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First Pi in space
Helen: Over the past year and a half, Raspi-LTSP has become very popular as a simple and easy-to-set-up way of managing Raspberry Pi users and files in a classroom setting. Today its 18-year-old developer Andrew Mulholland launches PiNet , the new incarnation of this very valuable, free, open source project.
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Raspi-LTSP is now PiNet: easily manage a Raspberry Pi classroom
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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I spy… Carrie Anne on BBC Technobabble
Cambridge News Hundreds flock to Cambridge's Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend Cambridge News 28/02/15 the Raspberry Pi Foundation's third birthday Raspberry Pi Foundation's third birthday. From left are Pete Lomas Co-Founder and trustee Raspberry Pi , Liz Upton – Head of Communications Raspberry Pi , Clive Beale who heads up Education at
Hey everyone! After much preparation we are super happy to announce an exciting new project from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.