Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we take great pride in the wonderful free resources we produce for you to use in classes, at home and in coding clubs. We publish them under a Creative Commons licence, and they’re an excellent way to develop your digital-making skills
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Get wordy with our free resources
Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we take great pride in the wonderful free resources we produce for you to use in classes, at home and in coding clubs.
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Get wordy with our free resources
Yesterday we welcomed a new member of staff to the Foundation’s growing Education Team. Marc Scott is a former teacher, joining as our new Head of Curriculum
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Welcome Marc – our new Head of Curriculum
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
Back in April, when we launched a revamp of our whole website , we introduced a section of free learning resources .
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Resources Restyled
At Picademy , our awesome free training course for teachers, I run a workshop to introduce teachers to using the camera module with Python, and show them how to wire up a GPIO button they can use to trigger the camera. I always make a point of saying “now you know this, what can you make it do?” and suggest some uses for the setup – stop-motion animation, motion sensing or sending pictures to Twitter
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Make a Tweeting Babbage
As you may have heard, the Boardroom at Pi Towers contains a wall covered in the poster competition entries from before Christmas 2013. We hold all our meetings in this room, and even run workshops in it during Picademy . It’s also fairly common knowledge that I have a short attention span, and that on occasion when I’m in the boardroom (I’m not going to admit how often in case Lance or Eben reads this!) I find my gaze and mind wandering over to that wall and I wonder if I can make any of those imagined Raspberry Pi project ideas a reality
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Hamster Party Cam
This week started with the second run of Picademy – our free CPD course for teachers. Two days at Pi Towers learning interesting and engaging ways to use Raspberry Pi in the classroom, led by Carrie Anne and supported by our education team
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Creating Resources on GitHub Guide from Picademy 2
Our friends at Pimoroni have some good news for you. To celebrate making their 100,000th Pibow case , they’re giving away 512 Pibow Rainbow cases (and some accessories) to good causes. Updated to add: Cyntech have just thrown their hat into the ring too: they’ll be supplementing the prize pool with some more PiHubs and Pibrellas, alongside some seven-segment displays – all of which are very useful in the classroom. Thanks folks! The Pibow Rainbow – Raspberry Pi case and thing of beauty Are you a charity, educational establishment or other worthy cause with a bunch of naked Model B Raspberry Pis?
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Free goodies for good causes from Pimoroni
You’ll notice that things round here don’t look like they used to. This website has had a comprehensive overhaul: we hope you like what you see. ( That stuff from yesterday
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Welcome to our new website