Over the last year, we’ve seen big improvements in Scratch performance on the Pi. To date these have resulted from tweaks to the Scratch codebase and the addition of ARMv6-optimized blitting routines to the Squeak Smalltalk VM on which it runs
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Test Tim’s NuScratch alpha
One of the goals we’ve been working towards with our friends at Collabora over the last few months is the provision of an up-to-date, HTML5-capable web browser for the Pi.
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Web browser beta
ElectronicsWeekly.com Raspberry Pi gets an Eye ElectronicsWeekly.com “Over the last few months, we've been working on tuning and refining the Raspberry Pi camera module,” said Gordon Hollingworth, Head of Software at Raspberry Pi . “We're very pleased to be able to release the camera board today. It's tiny, it only ..
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Raspberry Pi gets an Eye – ElectronicsWeekly.com
Raspberry Pi Camera Module Now Shipping From RS Components – Marketwire Marketwire (press release) “Over the last few months, we've been working on tuning and refining the Raspberry Pi camera module,” said Gordon Hollingworth, Head of Software at Raspberry Pi . “We're very pleased to be able to release the camera board today.
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ZDNet Raspberry Pi gets photo and video capabilities with £20 camera module ZDNet The £20 camera module, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation over the last year, costs roughly the same as the Raspberry Pi itself and allows the Linux mini-computer to take both still images and video. The module went on sale through Raspberry Pi … Raspberry Pi camera module comes to the UK May 14th, lands early for some Engadget Pictures from Raspberry Pi's new camera add-on BBC News Raspberry Pi Camera Module now available bit-tech.net Geeky gadgets
While we love all programming languages equally here at the Foundation, we do love Python an awful lot. Most users run their code under the “default” CPython interpreter, but over the last few years the PyPy project has made great strides in producing an highly compatible alternative interpreter with an integrated tracing JIT compiler. On x86 platforms this can improve the performance of some workloads by a factor of ten or more, and the PyPy team are now bringing the same sort of boost to the ARM world
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PyPy on Pi
The MagPi is a free magazine made by Raspberry Pi fans for Raspberry Pi fans. It’s the example of just how remarkable the Raspberry Pi community is that we point to most often: volunteer enthusiasts with no publishing experience have been producing a really tight, entertaining, and educational magazine for twelve months now, and it’s just getting better and better.
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A very happy first birthday to The MagPi!
Alex Eames from RasPi.tv has really outdone himself this time: he’s using a Wiimote and a Gertboard to make his Pi control a splendid array of motors and solenoids, complete with little flags and metal teacups that go ping. More flap-whizz-ding-vroom to your elbow, Alex.
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RasPi.tv goes whackadoodle with a Gertboard and a Wiimote
Eben and I flew to the US yesterday, and bought a copy of the New York Times at the airport the moment we landed to read in the cab on the way to our hotel, because we’d been told just before we took off that there was a long article about Raspberry Pi in the business section. A bit of a Total Perspective Vortex moment. We’ve been so busy over the last few months that I’d actually forgotten that we’d spent half a day with a video photographer from the NYT in September, when we were at Maker Faire NY.
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New York Times article and video