TechRadar How to set up your Raspberry Pi in Linux TechRadar It doesn't make the installation any better, but it gives you a great opportunity to try it out before plugging in your Raspberry Pi .
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As Chicken Week here at Pi Towers draws to a close, we are all thinking deep thoughts about roasting temperatures and the very best fillings for omelettes. The eggs Dennis Hejselbak is working with are not for omelettes. Dennis, who lives in Denmark, has built a Raspberry Pi-powered incubator, complete with camera.
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A chicken incubation system
Myrijam Stoetzer, 14, and Paul Foltin, 15, are from Duisburg in Germany. They have built a system for controlling a wheelchair using eye movements
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A wheelchair controlled by eye movements
Here at Pi Towers, Astro Pi fever is taking hold! Over the last few weeks there have been a number of things happening which we’re really excited about, so it’s time for an update. The first and most crucial bit of news for those of you furiously writing your competition entries is that you now have just a little more time
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Astro Pi Mission Update 3
By 2020 there will be twelvety gigajillion of Internet Things all shouting at each other and sulking – Alice Bevel The Internet of Things had been around for a while ( since 1982 apparently) but it’s still a bit of a mystery to many.
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Getting started with the Internet of Things
Hackaday LED Notification Cube is a Good First Project Hackaday The brain of the system is a Raspberry Pi . [Matt] found a Python library that allowed him to directly control an RGB LED strip based on the LPD8806 chip. He wired the data pins directly to the Pi and used an old 5V cell phone charger to power the LEDs
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LED Notification Cube is a Good First Project – Hackaday
Hopefully the dust has now settled on the first batch of changes to the Raspbian desktop which were made available at Christmas, and you’ve either a) decided you like them, or b) decided you hate them and have rolled back to a previous version, never to upgrade again. If you are in group b), I suggest you stop reading now… The next set of desktop changes are now available.
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Another Raspbian Desktop User Interface Update
opensource.com Getting started with Minecraft Pi opensource.com The free version Raspberry Pi version of the game is the only one that comes with a programming interface, allowing players write code and manipulate the world around them. It's based on Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android, and a Python API is provided
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In February Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, announced and opened entries for the new Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists mentorship programme. We selected final participants from the applicants at the beginning of this month – we’ve got a wonderful group of young people. Last weekend we held the induction weekend here at Pi Towers in Cambridge, which involved Pecha Kucha presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) from participants and mentors; introducing the CTs to their new Raspberry Pi starter kits; getting them up and running with their Pis with a Python and GPIO workshop using the CamJam EduKit and the camera module; and a punting trip through the heart of Cambridge.
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Meet the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists
This week PyCon is going on in Montreal – it’s the big worldwide Python conference – and for the occasion, O’Reilly asked our friend Nicholas Tollervey to write a free short book on Python in Education . Click to download the book for free The book tells the story of Python, why Python is a good language for learning, how its community gives great support, and covers Raspberry Pi as a case study
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Python in Education – free e-book from O’Reilly