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Raspberry Pi Zero: What You Can Do With This $5 Computer – ABC News

Ars Technica Raspberry Pi Zero: What You Can Do With This $5 Computer ABC News “The original Raspberry Pi Model B and its successors put a programmable computer within reach of anyone with $20-35 to spend,” Eben Upton, founder of Raspberry Pi , wrote in a blog post today. “Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to … Pi Zero: A full Raspberry Pi for just $5 Ars Technica Holy Smoke! New Raspberry Pi Zero Costs Just $5… TechCrunch Could Raspberry Pi Zero Be Pivotal To Open Source IOT

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Pi Zero: A full Raspberry Pi for just $5 – Ars Technica

Ars Technica Pi Zero: A full Raspberry Pi for just $5 Ars Technica Have you ever wanted a Raspberry Pi but thought that £16/$25—roughly three packs of cigarettes—was a little exorbitant for a complete computer capable of running Linux?

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Mycroft Raspberry Pi Open Source Artificial Intelligence System (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Mycroft Raspberry Pi Open Source Artificial Intelligence System (video) Geeky Gadgets Joshua Montgomery has this week launched Mycroft a Raspberry Pi open source artificial intelligence system that has been created to play media, controls lights and more. Mycroft is powered by the Raspberry Pi 2 and Arduino platform, allowing the system …

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Roberts R300 Reinvention

Liz: today’s guest post comes from Gordon at IQAudIO , who makes and sells audio accessories for the Pi, which we really, really like – with one of his DACs you can turn your Pi into a proper audiophile-approved piece of kit. Gordon had made a project we really liked the look (and sound) of when we last saw him, so I asked him to write it up. Over to Gordon: When my grandmother passed away many years ago I was asked if there was anything of hers I’d like to have in order to remember her by. The choice at the time was pretty easy for me – her bright red Roberts radio.

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Plotter made from scrap computer parts

Our old friend HomoFaciens (who has the best voice of any Raspberry Pi user we’ve met) has another fantastic piece of work to share. He’s recycled old optical drives for their stepper motors, and made a tiny plotter, controlled over WiFi, from those motors, a servo, four H-bridges and a Raspberry Pi.

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Open Source Hatalogico HAT For The Raspberry Pi (video) – Geeky Gadgets

Geeky Gadgets Open Source Hatalogico HAT For The Raspberry Pi (video) Geeky Gadgets “The Raspberry Pi is an incredible piece of kit, if you're viewing this campaign you probably already know that. And if you're only interested in software then the RPi 2 release likely fulfils all of your dreams

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The Pi Tank – 3D Printed Open Source Smartphone Controlled Raspberry Pi … – 3DPrint.com

3DPrint.com The Pi Tank – 3D Printed Open Source Smartphone Controlled Raspberry Pi … 3DPrint.com We are finally beginning to see trends emerge within the desktop 3D printing space, and these trends are pointing in a direction of convergence between 3D printing and robotics. Thanks in a big way to a credit card-sized computer known as the Raspberry …

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As British as Raspberry Pi? – ComputerworldUK (blog)

As British as Raspberry Pi ? ComputerworldUK (blog) Glyn Moody is a technology writer and blogger for Computerworld UK. He is the author of the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution (2001)

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The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo

Dominique Laloux first got in touch with us in May 2013 when he was on the point of leaving to spend a year in the rural Kuma region of Togo in Western Africa, an area where, until 2012, 75% of teachers had never used a computer. He had previously joined a team of Togolese friends to set up the Kuma Computer Center in the mountain village of Kuma Tokpli for the students and teachers of five local secondary schools, and planned to introduce Raspberry Pis there. The building that currently houses Kuma Computer Center’s first computer room in Kuma Tokpli We next heard from Dominique earlier this month.

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