The Register Raspberry Pi 2 power crashes when exposed to xenon flash ZDNet It seems that the new Raspberry Pi 2 is susceptible to flash photography, with users complaining of the board losing power when put under the glare of a xenon tube flash — commonly used in flash photography.
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TechnoBuffalo Raspberry Pi 2 Can Crash If You Take Its Picture TechnoBuffalo Early adopters of the Raspberry Pi 2 have stumbled across a very strange problem when taking pictures of their unit. If using a camera with a Xenon flash, the machine locks up completely and cannot be used until it has been power cycled.
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Raspberry Pi 2 Can Crash If You Take Its Picture – TechnoBuffalo
Eben: Here’s a guest post from Tom Sherlock, describing how he’s been able to control a telescope using a Raspberry Pi, Mathematica and the Wolfram Language. As an amateur astronomer, I’m always interested in ways to use Mathematica in my hobby. In earlier blog posts, I’ve written about how Mathematica can be used to process and improve images taken of planets and nebulae
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Controlling Telescopes with Raspberry Pi and Mathematica
Our intrepid education team spends a lot of the year on the road.
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Christmas competition
CryptoCoinsNews Bitsmart: Open-Source DIY Bitcoin Wallet with Raspberry Pis CryptoCoinsNews In the picture, a prototype Bitsmart board with an Ethernet cable connecting the two Raspberry Pi units. The cold storage unit is never connected to the Internet. “The BitSmart Wallet device is two small computers in one package.
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Bitsmart: Open-Source DIY Bitcoin Wallet with Raspberry Pis – CryptoCoinsNews
The Raspberry Pi Education team have really hit the ground running over the past few months, creating resources for the new website , running teacher training courses , and attending conferences and events all over the world! We even employed a Minecraft expert in our efforts to reach more young people and teachers. For the first time this year, we get the opportunity to combine our teacher training efforts with a conference and even a Raspberry Jam thanks to our friends in the UK Python community, who run a volunteer-organised annual conference called PyconUK .
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PyConUK Education Track for Teachers
Recently a number of us were lucky enough to fly over to the Bay Area Maker Faire to represent Raspberry Pi at the event.
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Raspberry Pi projects at the Maker Faire Bay Area
A lot of you have had huge success in the last few months using our very own Carrie Anne Philbin’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi as a resource for kids of all ages. It’s engaging, friendly and works really well in getting kids excited and confident about using their Raspberry Pi. So much so that we’ve found schools are ordering classroom sets; so are after-school clubs, and we’ve had amazing feedback from kids and their parents
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Get Carrie Anne’s book for six quid! (And a competition!)
Last Friday night I spotted a tweet with a picture of a Raspberry Pi running on a screen and mini keyboard concealed within a small hinged enclosure: “I christen thee as ‘Porta-Pi’” its officially finished! @Raspberry_Pi pic.twitter.com/UCIqVPoRLR — Jayme Gisbourne (@jaymegisbourne) February 8, 2014 I thought it was great! Then the next morning I spotted the very same box while wandering around the Cambridge Raspberry Jam – and was pleased to be able to see it for real – especially impressed when I discovered the maker behind the project was a 14 year old school boy. Jayme Gisbourne is a very bright and forward thinking fourteen year old. Over to Jayme… My name is Jayme Gisbourne
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Jayme Gisbourne’s Porta-Pi
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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LEGO & Raspberry Pi Reads eBooks Aloud: eReader Reader – Technabob (blog)