Learning Python with Raspberry Pi iProgrammer Python 2 and 3 come ready to run on the Raspberry Pi – is this a good way to get started? Raspberry Pi is a great, little, and very cheap, single-board computer. And for reasons that I can't quite fathom, people buy them to learn Python even though ..
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Learning Python with Raspberry Pi – iProgrammer
There are many things that happen in my bathroom which I wish to keep private. But over at Instructables , member e024576 (about whom all we know is that he’s male and aged 59 – judging by the accent he uses in the video below when he runs out of loo-roll, he’s also from somewhere in the lower half of the USA) has been able to power through any bathroom-related shame to work out what toilet events can be usefully hooked up to the cloud without causing any personal embarrassment, all with the potential for making your toilet experience smoother, more environmentally friendly and less fraught with worry that the paper might have run out
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Internet of Things toilet
Greg Cope mailed us a few weeks ago with a pointer to this project, which has been monitoring DevOps at the Financial Times (FT) here in the UK. It’s hard for everyone in the group to simultaneously maintain an overview of the health of the stack under normal circumstances. They use Nagios , a great piece of kit with one fatal flaw: Nagios emails everybody on the team every time a check changes state
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The big flashing DevOps thing
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
Hey all – Rachel here! I have spent the last year talking with lots of artists who are making amazing things with Raspberry Pis. Every day my inbox is PINGing with exciting progress news. So I’m going to start showcasing some of these projects on the blog
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Art Showcase: Binaudios
ElectronicsWeekly.com The MagPi builds a Pi oscilloscope ElectronicsWeekly.com There's an article describing how to use the Raspberry Pi as a 10 Msps scope, how to build a spectrophotometer using the Raspberry Pi and Wolfram language, using Python with the module 'Turtle' to produce LOGO-style graphics, and a look at C++ and
Doing the social media stuff that I do, I see a lot of cat-related stuff; your cute cat thing has to be pretty darn good to impress me. MouseAir cuts it.
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MouseAir
Liz: A few weeks ago, over the Easter holidays, we had Amy Mather, 14 years old and surpassing fantastic, come and visit us for a week’s work experience. (Check out this talk she gave at last year’s Jamboree, aged only 13; see another talk she gave at Wired with Clive, our Director of Education, and read about her in The MagPi, where she was the cover star last June.
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Amy Mather’s week of work experience
UK teachers: want two days of free, top-class CPD? Check out Picademy , and send us your applications! What do you get if you cross a PiFace with a rubber dinosaur from Marks and Spencer? Twitter magic, that’s what.
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Boris, the Twitter Dino-Bot
We think Craig Richardson’s brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry Pi book (available as a free download) remains one of the very best tools for stealthily teaching rigorous and useful computing concepts and programming tricks to kids that we’ve seen.
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Minecraft Pi recipe cards to download and keep