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Making Robot Friends with the Crickit HAT for Raspberry Pi

Here’s a guest post from our good friend Limor Fried, MIT hacker and engineer, Forbes Top Woman in Tech, and, of course, Founder of Adafruit. She’s just released a new add-on for the Pi that we’re really excited about: we think you’ll like the look of it too.

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Dealmaster: Take 20% off a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ starter kit – Ars Technica

Ars Technica Dealmaster: Take 20% off a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ starter kit Ars Technica Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by a handful of standout deals, including a nice discount on CanaKit's Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ starter bundle

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UK Scouts! New resources to support the Digital Maker badge

Six months ago, we announced our partnership with the Scout Association in the UK: we launched the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge, releasing new badge requirements , along with resources for stages 1 and 2, to help tens of thousands of young people learn how to create with technology.

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Whimsical builds and messing things up

Today is the early May bank holiday in England and Wales, a public holiday, and while this blog rarely rests, the Pi Towers team does. So, while we take a day with our families, our friends, and/or our favourite pastimes, I thought I’d point you at a couple of features from HackSpace magazine , our monthly magazine for makers

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I am Beemo, a little living boy: Adventure Time prop build

Bob Herzberg, BMO builder and blogger at BYOBMO.com , fills us in on the whys and hows and even the Pen Wards of creating interactive Adventure Time BMO props with the Raspberry Pi. A Conversation With BMO A conversation with BMO showing off some voice recognition capabilities. There is no interaction for BMO’s responses other than voice commands.

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Visualising Weather Station data with Initial State

Since we launched the Oracle Weather Station project , we’ve collected more than six million records from our network of stations at schools and colleges around the world.

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Build a Flick-controlled marble maze

Wiggle your fingers to guide a ball through a 3D-printed marble maze using the Pi Supply Flick board for Raspberry Pi! https://giant.gfycat.com/ForsakenFirmHummingbird.webm Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, yeah Using the Flick , previously seen in last week’s  Hacker House’s gesture-controlled holographic visualiser , South Africa–based Tom Van den Bon has created a touch-free marble maze. He was motivated by, if his Twitter is any indication, his love for game-making and 3D printing.

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Prank your friends with the WhooPi Cushion

Learn about using switches and programming GPIO pins while you prank your friends with the Raspberry Pi-powered  whoopee WhooPi Cushion! Whoopee cushion PRANK with a Raspberry Pi: HOW-TO Explore the world of Raspberry Pi physical computing with our free FutureLearn courses: http://rpf.io/futurelearn Free make your own Whoopi Cushion resource: http://rpf.io/whoopi For more information on Raspberry Pi and the charitable work of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, including Code Club and CoderDojo, visit http://rpf.io Our resources are free to use in schools, clubs, at home and at events. The WhooPi Cushion You might remember Carrie Anne and me showing off the WhooPi Cushion live on Facebook last year .

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Derek Woodroffe’s steampunk tentacle hat

Halloween: that glorious time of year when you’re officially allowed to make your friends jump out of their skin with your pranks. For those among us who enjoy dressing up, Halloween is also the occasion to go all out with costumes

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