Carrie Anne Philbin, our Education Pioneer and author of the most excellent Adventures in Raspberry Pi , had a dark secret up until last week. She was a Raspberry Pi enthusiast who didn’t know how to solder
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Learn to solder with Carrie Anne
Recently a number of us were lucky enough to fly over to the Bay Area Maker Faire to represent Raspberry Pi at the event.
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Raspberry Pi projects at the Maker Faire Bay Area
You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our team were away in San Francisco last week for Maker Faire. Clive, Carrie Anne and Alex Bradbury joined forces with Pimoroni and ran a stall promoting Raspberry Pi and its use in education. Here’s a video MAKE put out, featuring Clive talking about some of our recent developments such as the free educational material for everyone to teach , learn and make with Raspberry Pi: The team spoke to a lot of people at Maker Faire, gave talks, visited hackspaces and crammed a lot of outreach in to the trip – so once they’ve recovered we’ll be sharing their experiences and adventures in further blog posts.
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‘Educating with Raspberry Pi’ at Maker Faire
CNET UK Fan-built Raspberry Pi tablet the PiPad has plywood case CNET UK “When I set out to build my Raspberry Pi tablet I wanted something different,” Castor writes. “I wanted an all-in-one system that was usable, portable, and Linux based.
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Fan-built Raspberry Pi tablet the PiPad has plywood case – CNET UK
I’ve actually held this project in my very own sweaty little hands: Michael showed it to me at Maker Faire in NY last September. I’m glad he’s written the project up , because it’s a gorgeous build which really deserves sharing
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Wooden tablet: Michael Castor’s PiPad
We met Jon Stam at a Maker Faire last year.
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Bioscope – old-timey-fy your movies
V3.co.uk Intel unveils Quark-based Galileo computer to rival Raspberry Pi V3.co.uk Intel has unveiled a low-cost single-board computer called Galileo aimed at the “maker” and education communities, in a move that can be seen as rivalling that of the popular Raspberry Pi device. Announced at the Maker Faire event in Rome by Intel ..
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Intel unveils Quark-based Galileo computer to rival Raspberry Pi – V3.co.uk
Siliconrepublic.com Intel launches Arduino-compatible open-source Galileo board to rival Raspberry Pi Wired.co.uk Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich has announced the release of Galileo, the first in a line of Intel-made, Arduino-compatible development boards. Speaking at the Maker Faire in Rome, which Wired.co.uk attended, Krzanich explained that it would the … Life of Pi : Intel to give away Arduino-friendly 'Galileo' tiny-puter Register Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board Ars Technica Intel outfits open-source Galileo computer with Quark chip, targets DIY crowd ITworld.com Engadget all 33 news articles
The video of Eben’s LinuxCon keynote has just been made available: enjoy. If you’re one of those people who watches everything we do (we know you are out there, and you fascinate, delight and horrify us in equal measure), you’ll be familiar with most of the first 9 minutes or so. Scroll past that for the juicy stuff
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LinuxCon keynote
You’ll notice I’m posting quite late today: it’s because I’m in the US for LinuxCon, so I’m out by a few time zones. (Thanks to Clive for looking after the blog yesterday.) Eben gave a keynote yesterday, immediately after Gabe Newell (who didn’t give any hints about Half Life 3 – sorry, Ryan)
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LinuxCon keynote, Maker Faire NYC, Cambridge GCSE Computing news