Mike Horne, aka Recantha , co-organises the Cambridge Raspberry Jam and Pi Wars , not to mention some amazing parties . He also makes things, most recently this excellent Pi-powered music box. It probably isn’t what you thought of when you read the words “music box”
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Recantha’s Raspberry Pi music box
Alphr Raspberry Pi 3 review: A faster processor plus Bluetooth and built in Wi-Fi take the Pi to the next level Alphr Update, 10/5/2016: I've added a section to the end of this review covering the excellent WD Labs PiDrive – an internal 314GB hard disk designed specifically for the low power demands of the Raspberry Pi 3.
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Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi April 2016 Issue 44 Is Now Available To Download Geeky Gadgets The latest edition of the excellent Raspberry Pi magazine for April 2016, offers readers a chance to win one of three U:Create Astro Pi kits worth £100 or $145 each. The latest issue and can either be purchased from the official MagPi's website or ..
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What do you do if you are given a big old wine barrel? You could make it into a twee garden planter; go over Niagara Falls in it; or cut off the end and make a secret passage like in Scooby Doo.
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Barrel o’ Fun: Arcade machine barrel table
This is something I’ve been meaning to try for myself in some of the ruined iron-age villages up on the moors in Cornwall and Devon one summer. Richard Hayler and his son learned about kite mapping at last year’s EMF festival , where the younger Hayler won the workshop competition. The prize?
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Kite mapping
People have been emulating classic computers and games consoles on Raspberry Pi since we launched back in 2012. For those of us who bough our first hardware in the 1980s, this is a fun way to take a trip down memory lane, but our relatively modest CPU performance restricted us to third – and fourth -generation platforms. Anything with 3d graphics hardware was pretty much out of the question
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Emulation on Raspberry Pi 2
Raspberry Pi turns three (three!) next month and we would love you to come to our birthday party! The party is so huge and packed full of stuff that we couldn’t fit it into one day so we’ll be taking over the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory on Saturday 28 th February and Sunday 1 st March for the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend . It’s going to be a buzzing behemoth benchmark of a birthday bash. Blimey! There will be captivating talks, animated hands-on workshops, informative show and tell sessions and chatty panel discussions.
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Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend 28 Feb – 1 March 2015
As you might have spotted, if you follow us on Twitter, Eben and I spent the last week and a bit touring China, meeting the Raspberry Pi community there and giving interviews to the press, with some sterling organisational help from our friends at RS Components. (A special and huge thank you to Eric Lee, without whom we’d have been absolutely stuffed
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China press and community tour
Are you a primary or secondary teacher in the UK? Do you want some free CPD?
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Glock around the clockenspiel
A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt Timmons-Brown (who you may know better as The Raspberry Pi Guy from his excellent series of YouTube tutorials) sent us this video late last night, we watched it together and found that by the end we had both got salty tears on our Battenberg cake
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A video that made us cry