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Monitoring insects at the Victoria and Albert Museum

A simple Raspberry Pi camera setup is helping staff at the Victoria and Albert Museum track and identify insects that are threatening priceless exhibits. “Fiacre, I need an image of bug infestation at the V&A!” The problem with bugs Bugs: there’s no escaping them. Whether it’s ants in your kitchen or cockroaches in your post-apocalyptic fallout shelter, insects have a habit of inconveniently infesting edifices, intent on damaging beloved belongings

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Take part in Hour of Code 2018

Every year for the last five years, Hour of Code has encouraged school students to spend just one hour writing some code, in the hope that they get bitten by the bug rather than generating too many bugs! This year, you can find activities from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Code Club, and CoderDojo on the official Hour of Code website . Boat race Boat race , a Code Club resource, is a one-hour project aimed at beginners

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Raspberry-Pi DVB transmitter: The benefits of open-source hardware – Southgate Amateur Radio Club

Raspberry – Pi DVB transmitter: The benefits of open-source hardware Southgate Amateur Radio Club I was first alerted to the benefits of open-source some years ago while talking to a couple of very experienced engineers. These guys, who worked for a multi-billion-dollar company with a global footprint, had been asked by their manager to complete a ..

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#CharityTuesday: Code Club for libraries

Code Clubs aren’t just for the classroom, as today’s blog post shows. Last week, we announced that we are extending Code Club to 9- to 13-year-olds: as well as supporting more schools to offer Code Clubs, this means that non-school venues, like libraries, will be able to offer their clubs to a wider age group.

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Raspberry Pi TV Time Machine Project (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi TV Time Machine Project (video) Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts might be interested in a new Raspberry Pi project which is being created by Wellington Duraes, Senior Program Manager for Microsoft in the form of the TV Time Machine. Which uses a Raspberry Pi together with some some readily …

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TV Time Machine

Back when home television sets were thin on the ground and programmes were monochrome, TV maintained a magical aura, a ‘how do they fit the people in that little box’ wonder which has been lost now that sets are common and almost everyone has their own video camera or recording device. Many older shows were filmed specifically to be watched in black and white, and, in much the same way that plugging your SNES into an HD monitor doesn’t quite look right, old classics just don’t look the same when viewed on the modern screen. 50’s televisions were so pretty.

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Raspberry Pi 3 to be produced in Japan – Electronics EETimes (registration)

Electronics EETimes (registration) Raspberry Pi 3 to be produced in Japan Electronics EETimes (registration) “Existing models of the Raspberry Pi will continue to be manufactured in South Wales, UK, with the dual manufacturing locations in place to cater for future demand growth globally,” commented Rob Maycroft, Global Product Manager for Raspberry Pi at RS.

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CoderDojo Coolest Projects 2016

This weekend Philip and I went to Dublin to attend CoderDojo Coolest Projects . We got to meet hundreds of brilliant young digital makers and amazing volunteers. CoderDojo Coolest Projects: a free tech event for the world’s youngest innovators, creators and entrepreneurs As the event kicked off the news broke that Tim Peake had landed safely back on Earth, which meant Philip had to make some last minute changes to his presentation… Ben Nuttall on Twitter “Who knows who this is?” “It’s Tim Peake” “Where is he?” “In space” “No – he’s back on Earth!”pic.twitter.com/elfNXcAwsX As we walked around the venue we grew more and more impressed by the projects on show

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