Beating the contestants at Countdown: is it cheating if you happen to know every word in the English dictionary? Rosie plays Countdown Allow your robots to join in the fun this Christmas with a round of Channel 4’s Countdown. https://www.rosietheredrobot.com/2017/12/tea-minus-30.html Rosie the Red Robot First, a little bit of backstory
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Hackaday Hackaday Prize Entry: Raspberry Pi Zero Smart Glass Hackaday Raspberry Pi Zero Smart Glass aims to provide an entry into this world, with image recognition and OCR text recognition in a pair of glasses courtesy of a Raspberry Pi Zero. Unusually though it does not take the display option of other devices of …
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Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi PyID Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Algorithm (video) Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi makers and developers looking to add extra functionality to their projects might be interested in a new Raspberry Pi PyID optical character recognition (OCR) algorithm which has been created specifically for the single board mini PC by …
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Technabob (blog) LEGO & Raspberry Pi Reads eBooks Aloud: eReader Reader Technabob (blog) Aside from a Raspberry Pi and LEGO, the BrickPi Reader also has a Raspberry Pi camera. The camera takes a picture of an eReader's screen.
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A very short, but very important post today (I’d write more, but I have to hop on a plane). As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we’ve been supporting the exam board OCR in their production of Cambridge GCSE Computing , a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) for kids and teachers – and everybody else – which is structured around their highly regarded Computing GCSE.
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Raspberry Pi backs launch of online computing courses to teach tech skills V3.co.uk The first massive open online course (MOOC) intended to assist in the teaching and learning of the UK's computing curriculum has been launched. The course, set up through a joint partnership between exam board OCR, Cambridge University Press and the
Raspberry Pi , Cambridge University Press and OCR team up for free computing … Cambridge News A boost has been delivered to the teaching of computing in schools after three Cambridge institutions teamed up to offer free lessons for all
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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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This video of the closing panel discussion from last month’s Raspberry Jamboree has just appeared, and if you’re interested in applications of the Pi in schools, it’s well worth your time. If you want to find out more about the successful teaching of Computing in schools, this is a great place to start
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ComputerActive.co.uk Top 5 stories: CES madness, porn on Vine, Office 365, Raspberry Pi and Sphero … ComputerActive.co.uk The Raspberry Pi Foundation said it was “made up” over the news, which will also see 15,000 Raspberry Pi teaching and learning packs distributed to schools from examining body OCR.
