Leeds museum event aims to tackle the tech gender gap Yorkshire Evening Post It’s a much-loved Leeds landmark with roots that lie firmly in the past.
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Armley Mills’ STEAM Hack gives girls digital boost West Leeds Dispatch Working at one of the world’s foremost industrial powerhouses, the women of Armley Mills were no strangers to cutting-edge technology.
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Why it’s taken me seven months to type ‘Star Wars Raspberry Pi’ into Google is beyond me. But this morning, as I sat on a bus in traffic with BB8 in my bag and memories of watching Rogue One last night, the thought finally came to me.
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Build your own Death Star…sort of
Running Windows on Raspberry Pi DZone News Last year, you may remember me talking about playing with a Raspberry Pi . Well since then my Raspberry Pi has been sat on a desk collecting dust
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EE Times Raspberry Pi Maker Sells For $877M EE Times One of the largest manufacturers of Raspberry Pi computers agreed to be acquired, bringing to an end the British-owned manufacture of the incredibly popular tiny computer. Premier Farnell PLC, based in Leeds, began manufacturing Raspberry Pi systems in …
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ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi teams with Google to train teachers ElectronicsWeekly.com Dubbed the Picademy@Google programme, the first will be the Google Digital Garage situated at Leeds Docks and others are planned. The training courses will be a mix of hands-on and project-based learning and will be free to attend for teachers.
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We love introducing educators to the Raspberry Pi; that’s why the education team are always on the road, at conferences, shows and events, sharing the Pi’s learning potential. Last year, we started a teacher training programme, and invited educators from all over the world to our headquarters for some fun hands-on learning. We called it Picademy
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Launching Picademy@Google Leeds
We’re always really excited to see the resources and tools we make being used by kids in school. This video is from Benton Park School in Leeds, where a Sonic Pi orchestra put on a live coding performance recently
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The Benton Park Live Coding Orchestra
Liz: Here’s a guest post from Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts , our brilliant hosts. Christmas this year saw…a LOT of traffic, with thousands and thousands of downloads of NOOBS and other images from our downloads page , alongside pageviews in the many hundreds of thousands on the rest of the website – this on a day when we were expecting you all to be ignoring the internet and socialising with your families
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Coping with Christmas – a guest post from our web hosts at Mythic Beasts
This Death Star Hologram Was Made Using A Raspberry Pi Gizmodo Australia A group at the University of Leeds in the UK could make your dreams come true, as long as you don't mind the requirements: a plastic enclosure containing a ring of LEDs spinning at 300rpm, a Raspberry Pi and uh, electricity.
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