Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we take great pride in the wonderful free resources we produce for you to use in classes, at home and in coding clubs. We publish them under a Creative Commons licence, and they’re an excellent way to develop your digital-making skills
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Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we take great pride in the wonderful free resources we produce for you to use in classes, at home and in coding clubs.
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Raspberry Pi Turns 5 and Fans Show Off Its Flexibility Shacknews The Raspberry Pi is five years old now, and fans of the small computer got together at a Pi Party in Cambridge as part of a birthday weekend to celebrate. Much of the event revolved around showcasing what the single-board Pi could do through showcases …
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Boing Boing Help convince LEGO to produce “Lovelace and Babbage” play set / Raspberry Pi case Boing Boing What's more, the lovely, monochromatic Analytical Engine model can be used to house a Raspberry Pi Linux computer. Swoon. Creator Stewart Lamb Cromar also proposes two bonus sets, an “Ada Junior Classroom” and a “Babbage Tea Party”
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Help convince LEGO to produce "Lovelace and Babbage" play set / Raspberry Pi case – Boing Boing
More than 1000 of you have signed up already to come to our Big Birthday Weekend at the end of February. Tickets for Saturday are now sold out, but there are still about 80 left for the Sunday event
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Big Birthday Weekend – what’s happening, where and when
As you may have heard, the Boardroom at Pi Towers contains a wall covered in the poster competition entries from before Christmas 2013. We hold all our meetings in this room, and even run workshops in it during Picademy . It’s also fairly common knowledge that I have a short attention span, and that on occasion when I’m in the boardroom (I’m not going to admit how often in case Lance or Eben reads this!) I find my gaze and mind wandering over to that wall and I wonder if I can make any of those imagined Raspberry Pi project ideas a reality
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Hamster Party Cam
YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk drives.
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Back to the Future theme tune, played by disk drives
I’m about two weeks late to the party on this one – massive apologies to all at The MagPi . It’s been a bit busy around here so far this month. Right now, Picademy’s underway in the office space we’ve got set up as a classroom, and 24 teachers are busy making blooping noises with Sonic Pi while Clive booms at them in Teachervoice
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Last month we released an animation called What is a Raspberry Pi? which explains why the Pi exists, what it’s all about and touches on some application we’ve seen – and we recently discovered a video which points out some great ideas for what you can do with yours! Everyone takes different kinds of inspiration before they start a Pi project – whether it’s following a guide in a book or online, seeing somebody else make something at a Jam or maker faire, or solving a real life problem and getting straight to it. Plenty of people like the idea of the Pi before they have a use for it – sometimes it’s nice just to be presented with some example applications and let one pique your interest
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What can you do with a Raspberry Pi?
Yahoo! News (blog) Bartendro robot mixologist crafts cocktails with Raspberry Pi Yahoo! News (blog) A creation of the awesomely named company Party Robotics, Bartendro is a robot mixologist crafted from peristaltic pumps, Raspberry Pi , custom electronic dispenser boards, and food-grade tubing. It may simultaneously be the least-necessary and … Bartendro cocktail mixing robot lands on Kickstarter, wields Raspberry Pi (video) Engadget all 3 news articles