We’re back again with yet another amazing book in our Essentials series. We know you love them, and we also know that a lot of you love Minecraft
Read this article:
Mod Minecraft Pi with our latest Essentials books
It’s with an almost rude amount of excitement I can announce that issue 36 of the Official Raspberry Pi Magazine, The MagPi, is here ! It’s bigger and – dare I say it – better than ever too, with 100 pages of amazing projects, interviews, features, tutorials and reviews. Click the pic to buy the print edition from the Swag Store today & have it delivered to your door. It’s not just here in the virtual – download your free PDF edition today – sense, though. It’s also here in the physical – take me to the smallest room of the house – sense too.
Read more:
The MagPi issue 36 is here and we’re in print!
I can’t believe we’re on our third issue of the new MagPi already. Your free Raspberry Pi magazine is ready to download here
Go here to see the original:
MagPi issue 33 – out now!
Carrie Anne: A few weeks ago, Raspberry Pi hosted its first ever Young Rewired State centre and took part in the Festival of Code. We had a lot of fun
Go here to read the rest:
Getting hooked on programming with YRS project ‘Hook’
After a workshop last week, Clive, our Director of Educational Development, sent me the following in an email: A parent came up to me, and said: “I’m concerned that on Minecraft you can blow things up with TNT, it’s all about destruction, I’m worried about the effect on children…” If you ever want to make a six-foot-one Liverpudlian with a motorcycle cry, just repeat that sentence to him. Clive has been inconsolable for days.
Read this article:
Using Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to get kids computing
Martin O’Hanlon’s a familiar name in these parts, especially for fans of Minecraft: his repository of Pi Minecraft tricks and tutorials is one of our favourite resources. But Martin’s not all about magicking Menger- Sierpinski Sponges into the Minecraft universe: he does wonderful stuff with hardware and the Raspberry Pi too
Read more:
GPS-tracking helmet cam
Nicholas Harris is 11 years old , and he’s been learning to code with a Raspberry Pi. He’s set up a website to share his progress, and yesterday I was pointed at a project video he’d made. Kids like Nicholas are the whole reason we started the Raspberry Pi project: seeing videos like this makes our day, and makes our job feel so worthwhile
Read more:
Nicholas, some breadboard and a passcode
If you’re a Minecraft fan and a Pi owner, you’ve probably already downloaded a copy of Minecraft: Pi Edition . But are you getting the most out of the fact that you can modify the world with code in-game? If you’re not sure where to start, or if you’re looking for ideas (sometimes being given a blank canvas can be lousy for getting the brain sparking), Martin O’Hanlon at the marvellous has several tutorials on Minecraft: Pi Edition, from installing the game to using the Minecraft API to build wonderful things, like magical bridges that appear where’er you walk, games of hide and seek, and in-game analogue clocks.
View post:
Hacking the Minecraft world