Back in May, we mentioned that we’d been sponsoring the development of the ARM port of PyPy, the high-performance Python interpreter. Earlier today the team released a first beta of the upcoming 2.1 release, which for the first time adds ARM as an officially supported architecture. You can see the announcement here , and download binaries for Raspbian here .
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PyPy 2.1 beta released
Silicon Bus Stop: A change of venue On Monday 1st July we held our Preston Raspberry Jam at the CPC offices in Fulwood, Preston. We normally hold our Jam events at the University, but I wanted to explore the use of different venue. I had been to visit the offices a few times before and wondered if it would make a suitable location for holding events.
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Preston Raspberry Jam, 01.07.13
Your free copy of The MagPi , the magazine created by the Raspberry Pi community, is available from today. This month’s cover star is the camera board; there’s an article from our very own JamesH, who has contributed a huge amount of work to the development of the board, and talks new users through the device
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The MagPi issue 14, out today!
Google funds Raspberry Pi schools scheme Irish Times The Raspberry Pi runs versions of the Linux operating system and by default supports Python, which is seen as a good programming language for novices to tackle. A national coding competition for students and their teachers will also be run as part of ..
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Google funds Raspberry Pi schools scheme – Irish Times
While we love all programming languages equally here at the Foundation, we do love Python an awful lot. Most users run their code under the “default” CPython interpreter, but over the last few years the PyPy project has made great strides in producing an highly compatible alternative interpreter with an integrated tracing JIT compiler. On x86 platforms this can improve the performance of some workloads by a factor of ten or more, and the PyPy team are now bringing the same sort of boost to the ARM world
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PyPy on Pi
Raspberry Pi a Hit at PyCon 2013 Marketwire (press release) Raspberry Pi Foundation founder and trustee Eben Upton delivered a keynote speech to open the conference, explaining Python's place on the computer, including its use in developing the processor at Broadcom. “The wonderful thing for us about Python as …
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Raspberry Pi a Hit at PyCon 2013 – Marketwire (press release)
After a lot of swearing and arguing, we have managed to boil down nearly 700 entries to just ten winners. It was a very hard decision, and if you didn’t win please don’t feel too disheartened; we had some really exceptional entries for this competition and found it really hard to come to a final decision. As you’ll remember if you entered, we were looking for camera projects which would involve the winners in writing some software and doing something interesting with the cameras.
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Camera competition winners!
On Friday, Eben gave the keynote speech at PyCon. Enjoy!
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Eben’s keynote at PyCon
This is brilliant. Livebots is a project which allows you to control a robot (powered by the Pi, of course) over the internet
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Livebots
This is brilliant. Livebots is a project which allows you to control a robot (powered by the Pi, of course) over the internet
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Livebots