Liz: Tomorrow, Eben and I are getting up at sparrowfart to go and stand in a field with Dave Akerman, where we will “help” him launch a balloon equipped with a Pi. This time the balloon, rather than going for an altitude record, is intended to travel a long distance laterally; we’re hoping it’ll make it to Poland in the 24 hours we have before its batteries run out
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Guest post: more high altitude ballooning from Dave Akerman
This video of the closing panel discussion from last month’s Raspberry Jamboree has just appeared, and if you’re interested in applications of the Pi in schools, it’s well worth your time. If you want to find out more about the successful teaching of Computing in schools, this is a great place to start
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Raspberry Pi in schools: discussion
The name Mike Cook echoes around the corridors of Pi Towers every now and then when we make awed conversation about our hardware heroes.
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Raspberry Pi for Dummies
DW Radio in Germany (which is broadcast in the English language) broadcast a short piece on coding in schools in the UK, with emphasis on the Pi. You can listen to it here ; it’s well worth six minutes of your time, and it’s just the sort of thing we think parents and educators, here and outside the UK, should be made aware of
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DW radio on coding in schools and Pi
Australian Personal Computer Raspberry Pi 512MB review Australian Personal Computer By the time you go from the original stock 700MHz/256MB Raspberry Pi with the Debian Squeeze OS to an overclocked 1GHz/512MB version with floating point Debian Wheezy, you're getting a bench tested performance boost of approximately 39% — not a …
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Raspberry Pi 512MB review – Australian Personal Computer
Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Low Power NAS Lifehacker Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Low Power NAS A network storage device is one of the best ways to keep your data backed up, but it can be a little pricey to set up and leaving a computer on all the time sucks a lot of power. If you're looking for a cheap ..
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Turn a Raspberry Pi Into a Low Power NAS – Lifehacker
The first ever Raspberry Jamboree is being held on March 9 in Manchester, organised by the indefatigable Alan O’Donohoe.
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Raspberry Jamboree
Pete Lomas, the Raspberry Pi’s hardware designer and all-round good egg, has just been in São Paulo, Brazil, speaking at Campus Party . He sent me this report with a stern warning to edit it thoroughly
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Pete reports from Campus Party, São Paulo
Yahoo! News Canada (blog) Raspberry Pi model A available at $25 Hardware.Info Last year, Raspberry Pi started producing model A of its successful mini-PC.
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Raspberry Pi model A available at $25 – Hardware.Info