David Braben talks Kickstarter, Raspberry Pi – and Elite: Dangerous Stuff.tv David Braben created the open-world game with Elite. And he did it in 1984, with 22KB of memory to play with.
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Carrie Anne wasn’t our only new starter on Monday: we’ve also welcomed Dave Honess to the team. Dave will be familiar to many of you as Davespice from our forums, where he’s one of our moderators; he’s also been helping me moderate the comments on this blog for a year or so now, and he’s a mod on the Freenode #raspberrypi IRC channel. Dave writes for The MagPi (as Davespice), and he’s behind the porting and uploading of lots of the retro games you’ll see at the Pi Store
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The Raspberry Pi User Guide , co-authored by our very own Eben Upton with Gareth Halfacree, is your complete guide to the Raspberry Pi, from setup and installing software to learning how to use the Pi to play music and video, using it in electronics projects, learning your first programming language, learning about networking – it’s a complete guide to everything you need to get going, and even if Eben wasn’t involved in this book, it’d be our first recommendation for adults and older kids interested in getting started with the Raspberry Pi. This second edition is a much, much fatter book than the first – there’s almost half a book’s extra content in there. The first edition only covered the earliest revision of our hardware, and much of the software we now take for granted hadn’t been written back when it was published: this new edition is bang up to date, with new chapters covering use of the camera board, how to use NOOBS to set up your Pi, the introduction of the Pi Store and much more
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Official Raspberry Pi User Guide: 2nd edition out now!
Raspberry Pi Pens Wolfram Partnership for Free Mathematica Tom’s Hardware Guide Raspberry Pi might be huge among the developer community, but the teeny computer was originally intended for the educational market. The fine folks behind the Raspberry Pi Foundation wanted to make it possible for kids to learn how to code and build
Geeky gadgets Kano Computer Kit Powered By A Raspberry Pi (video) Geeky gadgets This week the Raspberry Pi mini PC revealed that its already passed the 2 million sales milestone and interest for the educational mini personal computer is still increasing. Using the device Kano the London based firm has created a complete kit that …
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Today we’ve all been running around like squirrels preparing for winter, trying to get organised for a visit from the fella on the right of the picture below, who is holding the Raspberry Pi. We made it in the end: the office is tidy, there are cupcakes, and we’re all wearing name badges and sweating gently
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A visitor at Raspberry Towers
Raspberry Pi on the menu in Jersey schools Jersey Isle News One of the team behind Raspberry Pi , the pioneering mini-computer, will be visiting Jersey schools next month to help launch the new vision for IT in education. Clive Beale, Director of Educational Development at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, will be …
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As you’ve probably noticed, Raspberry Pi is a rather unusual organisation. We have two functions: we make and sell tiny computers, and we promote children’s education
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We had some requests from people watching the video of What Gordon Did On His Holidays In Florida for more information about the Fireball Pinball machine that was being worked on at Familab, a huge and splendiferous hackspace. I wanted to learn more too, so I got in touch with Ian Cole, who is refurbishing the pinball machine. He’s been kind enough to prepare a blog post about the project, the educational reasons for starting it with his kids, and a blow-by-blow account of the build, along with a huge number of photographs documenting what he’s been doing
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Fireball Pinball HD
Every year, Eben raises sponsorship money and does the 75-mile London to Cambridge bike ride for Breakthrough Breast Cancer . This year, several of the folk working at Pi Towers and some of the volunteers who work on Raspberry Pi will be joining him on Sunday 28 July (Gordon, our keenest and most competitive cyclist will not be there, because he’ll be on holiday – this is probably a good thing, because cycling with Gordon can be very discouraging as he vanishes into the distance and leaves you crying your way up a hill).
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Join us on the London to Cambridge bike ride for Breakthrough Breast Cancer