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2018 Picademy dates in the United States

Cue the lights! Cue the music! Picademy is back for another year stateside. We’re excited to bring our free computer science and digital making professional development program for educators to four new cities this summer — you can apply right now

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Raspberry Pi clusters come of age

In today’s guest post, Bruce Tulloch, CEO and Managing Director of BitScope Designs , discusses the uses of cluster computing with the Raspberry Pi, and the recent pilot of the Los Alamos National Laboratory 3000-Pi cluster built with the BitScope Blade . High-performance computing and Raspberry Pi are not normally uttered in the same breath, but Los Alamos National Laboratory is building a Raspberry Pi cluster with 3000 cores as a pilot before scaling up to 40000 cores or more next year. That’s amazing, but why

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Learn how to build Raspberry Pi computers with this $15 online class – Mashable

Mashable Learn how to build Raspberry Pi computers with this $15 online class Mashable A partnership between Broadcom and the University of Cambridge, the U.K.

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Get up to speed on all things Raspberry Pi with this course – Mashable

Mashable Get up to speed on all things Raspberry Pi with this course Mashable A partnership between Broadcom and the University of Cambridge, the U.K. based Raspberry Pi Foundation creates credit card-sized computers that promote learning how to code and educational research. Since the computers went on the market in 2012, ..

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IBM Fits AI Wave Forecaster on Raspberry Pi – Geek

Geek IBM Fits AI Wave Forecaster on Raspberry Pi Geek Scientists have developed an advanced wave forecasting system that can run speedy simulations on a Raspberry Pi .

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RaspiReader: build your own fingerprint reader

Three researchers from Michigan State University have developed a low-cost, open-source fingerprint reader which can detect fake prints. They call it RaspiReader , and they’ve built it using a Raspberry Pi 3 and two Camera Modules

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Hunting for life on Mars assisted by high-altitude balloons

Will bacteria-laden high-altitude balloons help us find life on Mars? Today’s eclipse should bring us closer to an answer. image c/o NASA / Ames Research Center / Tristan Caro The Eclipse Ballooning Project Having learned of the Eclipse Ballooning Project set to take place today across the USA, a team at NASA couldn’t miss the opportunity to harness the high-flying project for their own experiments.

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This modular sea-turtle robot based on a Raspberry Pi Zero may … – Quartz

Quartz This modular sea-turtle robot based on a Raspberry Pi Zero may … Quartz Researchers at University of Arizona have created a modular robot made of cardboard and a Raspberry Pi Zero (a simple computer) for around $70. The form …

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