When we started thinking about the Raspberry Pi project back in 2009, our ambitions were small, and very focussed on local education. We realised we were doing something bigger than that pretty rapidly, but all the same, some of the projects we come across leave us shocked at their scale, their gravity and their importance. This is one of them
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Pocket FM: independent radio in Syria
BBC News Raspberry Pi -powered transmitters broadcast Syrian radio BBC News The Pocket FMs, as they are called, were designed by a German organisation as a way of providing Syrians with independent radio.
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Raspberry Pi-powered transmitters broadcast Syrian radio – BBC News
Our old friend Norbert “ HomoFaciens ” Heinz has been at it again.
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Hanging wall plotter
Do you live in an area with bats? We do, but they’re so fast that they’re very hard to spot when they’re scudding about after insects at dusk; and, of course, human ears are not equipped to hear the ultrasonic tones that they use to make their echolocation calls, so we can’t hear them either.
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Bat Pi
Myrijam Stoetzer, 14, and Paul Foltin, 15, are from Duisburg in Germany. They have built a system for controlling a wheelchair using eye movements
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A wheelchair controlled by eye movements
I get asked sometimes what my favourite projects from this blog are. Dave Hunt’s water droplet photography’s right up there: Dave rigged up a Pi to trigger a solenoid valve and a camera shutter at the same time, to take perfectly timed macro photos of water drops. You can see his original, beautiful pictures here in our archives.
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Droplet photography
'Stupidest DCMA Notice Ever' Demands Google Blacklist Skype, Raspberry Pi … Huffington Post UK A German copyright group has caused outrage for demanding Google remove links to Skype, Java and the Raspberry Pi in one of the most breathtakingly broad takedown requests of all time
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‘Stupidest DCMA Notice Ever’ Demands Google Blacklist Skype, Raspberry Pi … – Huffington Post UK
On Saturday December 6 (we’re letting you know ahead of time so you’ve got absolutely no excuse for not finishing your build in time), there’s going to be a special event at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, held at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy. Pi Wars is a robot competition: unlike the televised Robot Wars you’ve seen in the past, though, nobody’s robot is going to be destroyed
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ToyCollect. A robot under the sofa.
Last week saw the London Film Festival open with the premier of The Imitation Game , a film which chronicles the awe-inspiring work of Alan Turing cracking the German naval Enigma machine at Bletchley Park, Britain’s code breaking centre during WWII.
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Seeking the next Alan Turing – the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge
We were amazed to learn that this month’s edition represents The MagPi’s second anniversary. The MagPi is the Raspberry Pi magazine, produced by the community for the community; it has no association with us at the Foundation (besides the fact that we love it and think it’s the best thing since sliced maltloaf)
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Happy second birthday to The MagPi!