MyBroadband I turned a Raspberry Pi into a mini console for PC gaming MyBroadband While the Steam Link is not officially available in South Africa, you shouldn't be prevented from playing PC games from the comfort of your couch. A good alternative is a Raspberry Pi running as a streaming console connected to a TV and your PC. Unlike ..
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This week, just nine weeks after its launch, we will ship the 250,000th Pi Zero W into the market. As well as hitting that pretty impressive milestone, today we are announcing 13 new Raspberry Pi Zero distributors, so you should find it much easier to get hold of a unit. This significantly extends the reach we can achieve with Pi Zero and Pi Zero W across the globe.
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3ders.org (blog) DIY 3D printed Raspberry Pi laptop case integrates official Pi display 3ders.org (blog) Matthew Rose-Innes, a maker from South Africa, has built a Raspberry Pi “laptop” using the Pi Foundation Display and a 3D printed casing that incorporates a keyboard and touchpad. The laptop is part of a wider trend for printing cool housings for the ..
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TechCentral Interview: Brian Andrew on the new Raspberry Pi [podcast] TechCentral In this episode of the TalkCentral Podcast, Duncan McLeod chats to RS Components GM Brian Andrew on the Raspberry Pi in South Africa, and specifically what to expect from the new Raspberry Pi Compute Model 3. Brian chats to Duncan about how the ..
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Located at the lookout at the summit of Table Mountain’s Kloof Corner hiking route, The Nest was a beautifully crafted replica of a rock that sat snugly alongside the trail. It would have been easy to pass it without noticing the enhancements: the USB port, headphone socket, and microphone. After all, what would such things be doing by a mountain trail in Cape Town, South Africa?
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The Nest: hidden music atop Table Mountain
Back in July we wrote about an exciting project aiming to make computing accessible to school students in South Africa, where most schools have no computers at all and many lack electricity. Solar Powered Learning was raising funds for a Raspberry Pi computer lab at a secondary school in Johannesburg, with the aim of creating a facility that can be reproduced all over South Africa, and powered by solar energy where mains electricity isn’t available. Their Indiegogo campaign was successful; we donated a classroom set of Pis and accessories, and project manager Taskeen Adam and fellow organisers set about coordinating volunteers to sand, drill, paint, lay cables, build desks and fit curtains
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Raspberry Pi Compute Module on sale in SA ITWeb The Raspberry Pi Compute Module is now available in South Africa through reseller RS Components.
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I heard about plans for a new Indiegogo fundraiser last week.
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TechCentral Little taste in SA for Raspberry Pi TechCentral The focus of the low-cost microcomputer Raspberry Pi , which costs as little as R349, has not hit its intended target market in South Africa, says RS Components, one of two global distributors of Raspberry Pi . RS Components GM Brian Andrews says it's ..
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The Lotter brothers have reached Cairo on their epic overland trip to South Africa . (N.B.
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The Lotter brothers reach Cairo, first ARM/Raspberry Pi workshop in Africa a success!