Liz: The wildlife cam kit has landed. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know we’ve been following the Naturebytes team’s work with great interest; we think there’s massive potential for bringing nature to life for kids and for adults with a bit of smart computing.
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Naturebytes wildlife cam kit
Time for an Astro Pi update! The ‘big idea’ phase of the competition, where students were only required to submit an idea, closed at the beginning of April. The fully anonymised judging process took place over two long days at York’s National STEM Centre on the 17th of April
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Astro Pi: Mission Update 2
Martin O’Hanlon is a co-author of Adventures in Minecraft which we featured back in November. The book’s full of incredible projects you can do with Minecraft, involving learning programming skills through building structures and interactive applications within the Minecraft world using the Python API provided in Minecraft: Pi Edition . We don’t know how he comes up with some of the ideas, and we’re amazed by what he shows can be achieved ( solar system in Minecraft , anyone?) but this one really blew us away
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Star Wars Episode 3.14: A New Hope
3DPrint.com Pi-Top, The 3D Printable Raspberry Pi Laptop to Launch on Kickstarter Shortly 3DPrint.com It is when you combine 3D printing with the credit card-sized single-board computer, known as Raspberry Pi , that the ideas can really start to take off. You may be familiar with other 3D printing/ Raspberry Pi projects that we have covered such as that …
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Pi-Top, The 3D Printable Raspberry Pi Laptop to Launch on Kickstarter Shortly – 3DPrint.com
Earlier this year, the Raspberry Pi Foundation supported a University of Cambridge team of two researchers, Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia, in a pilot project exploring the possibilities of providing computing access and education in rural schools in India.
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Exploring computing education in rural schools in India
The first question people usually ask upon meeting me is, “Can you ride a pig?” I’ve never worked out if they mean in Minecraft or in real life.
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Raspberry Pi Minecraft server
Silicon Bus Stop: A change of venue On Monday 1st July we held our Preston Raspberry Jam at the CPC offices in Fulwood, Preston. We normally hold our Jam events at the University, but I wanted to explore the use of different venue. I had been to visit the offices a few times before and wondered if it would make a suitable location for holding events.
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Preston Raspberry Jam, 01.07.13
A thread about Raspberry Pi ended up on the front page of Reddit today , and it’s a doozy. There are thousands of people taking part, and some Pi projects mentioned that we’d never even imagined people taking on. Some of them made our little hearts swell with pride.
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Reddit: what do people use their Pis for?
A few months ago PA Consulting Group ran a competition that challenged young people to make the world a better place using a Raspberry Pi. Last Wednesday I went along to help judge the 14 teams who made it to the final. Walking into the presentation room there was a real creative buzz as the contestants set up their projects and carried out last minute tweaks.
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Raspberry Pi Competition Results
Raspberry Pi competition shortlist drawn up in Cambridge ElectronicsWeekly.com The competition was intended for school and university students to present interesting design ideas demonstrating their programming skills using the Raspberry Pi .
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Raspberry Pi competition shortlist drawn up in Cambridge – ElectronicsWeekly.com