On 14th and 15th April we ran the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for Teachers: ‘Picademy’ for short. We invited 24 teachers from all over the UK to come to Pi Towers and be part of a very different type of training programme
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Picademy – UK teachers, apply to take part!
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
Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastav are second-year students at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Goa. After a Raspberry Pi workshop they decided they wanted to do something more meaningful than just flash LEDs on and off, and set this month’s PyCon in Montreal as their deadline. Aman Srivastav and Sanskriti Dawle They ended up producing something really special.
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Mudra: a Braille dicta-teacher
Mad Raspberry Pi boffins ripped out its BRAINS and SHRANK them for your … Register The makers of the micro-sized Raspberry Pi teaching computer have come up with an even smaller version of the device, this time aimed at hardware hobbyists and device builders who want to create their own printed circuit boards (PCBs)
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Are you a primary or secondary teacher in the UK? Do you want some free CPD?
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Glock around the clockenspiel
Liz: you’ll notice that this post has no pictures or video. That’s because we’d like you to make some for us, using the new camera mode. Take some 90fps video using our camera board and the information below, slow it down to 30fps and send us a link: if yours is particularly splendid, we’ll feature it here and on the front page
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New camera mode released
A lot of companies are building Raspberry Pi add-ons – Raspberry Pi accessory businesses have been called out by the UK Telegraph this year as one of their top 2014 startup investments . It gives us enormous pleasure to watch people build jobs and businesses around the Raspberry Pi, and we watch the numerous companies which add to the ecosystem with great interest.
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Laika Explorer: what it’s like to build a Raspberry Pi accessory startup
We’ve just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to the World Economic Forum at Davos, where he’s been talking about reshoring. And it got us very excited, because at 1m 03s he talks about Raspberry Pi. It is deeply weird to hear your company being namechecked by the PM.
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David Cameron talks Pi at Davos
Liz: Here’s a guest post from Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts , our brilliant hosts. Christmas this year saw…a LOT of traffic, with thousands and thousands of downloads of NOOBS and other images from our downloads page , alongside pageviews in the many hundreds of thousands on the rest of the website – this on a day when we were expecting you all to be ignoring the internet and socialising with your families
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Coping with Christmas – a guest post from our web hosts at Mythic Beasts
Raspberry Pi : Hands On with Arch Linux and Pidora ZDNet In the first post about my new Raspberry Pi , I explored about NOOBS (the New Out Of Box Software package) and Raspbian, the Debian GNU/Linux spin customised for the Pi. This time I want to take a look at the other two general-purpose Linux …
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