ZDNet Hands-On with the Raspberry Pi Zero ZDNet When the Raspberry Pi Zero was announced last week, I thought that I had very little chance of getting one anytime soon. It was obvious to me that this wonderful little computer would sell like the proverbial hotcakes, plus the fact that they were … New Raspberry Pi Zero micro computer is smaller, faster, and more capable …
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Hands-On with the Raspberry Pi Zero – ZDNet
Sherry Coutu CBE has been a member of the board of Raspberry Pi Trading for a couple of years now; she’s an exceptionally valuable member of the team, and we’re very grateful to her for donating her time and expertise to our organisation.
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Computer History Museum and Raspberry Pi Foundation Launch Picademy USA GlobeNewswire (press release) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 12, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In partnership with the Computer History Museum the Raspberry Pi Foundation will bring Picademy, its educator training workshop, to the United States in early 2016.
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Computer History Museum and Raspberry Pi Foundation Launch Picademy USA – GlobeNewswire (press release)
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A history of Raspberry Pi in LEGO
Just before the launch of Raspberry Pi 2, RS Components , one of our two main manufacturing/distribution partners, sent a film crew to point some cameras at Eben for the day to talk about the history of Pi, about the new device, and about what we do. (He had a cold, which is why he sounds like Darth Vader.) This is the resulting video – we hope you like it!
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Portrait of an Inventor
To celebrate the launch of Sonic Pi 2 we held the inaugural Sonic Pi competition. We were looking for some of the best space-themed music, coded with Sonic Pi v2.0 on a Raspberry Pi by school children in the UK aged between 7-16 years – and we were not disappointed.
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The results are in for the Sonic Pi Competition!
Rachel here! This week we came across a fantastic application of Raspberry Pi to make a National Trust medieval castle come alive undead. I’ll hand you over to the National Trust and Splash and Ripple , the creative agency behind the work, who explain more about what they’re doing
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Art Showcase: A Knight’s Peril
I’m not alone at Pi Towers (hi Lorna! Hi Rachel!) in being a textiles nerd. There’s a 200-year-old cushion made of strips of worn-out Regency clothes (which nobody is allowed to sit on) in my living room; Mandarin sleeves I’ve rescued from rummage bins in Hong Kong and framed on the walls, and a rotation of vintage wedding kimonos and obis that hang up at the end of the hall.
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Jacquard looms, and a Pi simulator
On this day 100 years ago, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in response to the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
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100 years since World War I: build a Morse code virtual radio
Rob’s in the US at the moment for a few weeks, covering the bits of the country we’ve not been to before, and he’s filled every waking moment with Pi-vangelism.
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Video: Rob Bishop talks to MAKE