Raspberry Pi programming language more popular than French ElectronicsWeekly.com The Raspberry Pi programming language, called Python, has overtaken French as the most popular language taught in primary schools, according to a survey of school pupils and parents.
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Today is a public holiday here in the UK, and Pi Towers is silent and still. Clive’s in a field “with no network (not even mobile),” he specifies, just in case someone were tempted to try and make him do something anyway
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Joker: a Raspberry Pi + Python joke machine
At the end of July, a subset of our Education Team went to Bilbao in Spain for EuroPython . As well as giving a number of talks at the conference, we’d arranged with the organising committee to run an Education Summit and invite teachers along
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Education Summit Videos from EuroPython
Summer Program(ming), Raspberry Pi and Python Illinois State University Stories At the end of the week, the Raspberry Pi was theirs to keep, and hopefully keep them programming. The Pi is eminently suited to being used as a media center, talking to other electronic devices (I have one running my garage door via a webpage!), or ..
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Summer Program(ming), Raspberry Pi and Python – Illinois State University Stories
Back in the heady days of the late ’90s, a number of my friends and fellow students were irritatingly good at Dance Dance Revolution . They devoted countless hours to it, and carried on earnest and lengthy discussions about technique. So I can feel only gratitude that this appealing crossover wasn’t around to further detain their attention
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DDR meets the Simon game
Just over a week ago now we closed the Secondary School phase of the Astro Pi competition after a one week extension to the deadline.
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Astro Pi: Mission Update 4
Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi GPIO Quick Reference Ruler (video) Geeky Gadgets GPIO ruler fits neatly in your pencil case or toolbox and acts as a perfect aide memoire for GPIO programming, in Python, on the Raspberry Pi . It's also a port ID board and you can even use it to measure things and draw straight lines
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Raspberry Pi GPIO Quick Reference Ruler (video) – Geeky Gadgets
The People Who Support Linux: SysAdmin Rigs Raspberry Pi for Racing Pigeons Linux.com (blog) Using hardware from Adafruit and their tutorials, Threet looked over the Python methods for accessing the temperature probe and the motion detector on the Raspberry Pi and wrote some simple Perl code to monitor the weather and the birds' activities.
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Dan Aldred, of Pig Love Pi Glove fame, has been working on a new project. He’s been using an Energenie Pi-mote IR sensor board with his Pi to record the signals from a remote control and then transmit these signals back to a device
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Remote twerking robot
opensource.com Python and Raspberry Pi in education opensource.com We love Python at the Raspberry Pi Foundation—it's our go-to general purpose programming language for most projects and activities.
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