Having recently discovered her through Instagram, we love the videos that have been coming through from Estefannie ‘Explains It All’ De la Garza . As a “Software Engineer by day, Game Dev and YouTuber by night”, Estefannie is no stranger to digital making. And with her new YouTube channel , she’s started sharing the experience of physical making with the world.
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Estefannie’s Smart Gingerbread House
Geek The Raspberry Pi Is Great At Digitizing Your Old-Timey Videos Geek He happened to have a spare Raspberry Pi and an old projector sitting around. With a couple of 3d-printed parts and a fair bit of tinkering, he converted the reel-to-reel projector into a Pi-controlled digital transfer machine. The results are quite …
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Lifehacker Australia Bad Movie Playback On Your Raspberry Pi ?
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Bad Movie Playback On Your Raspberry Pi? Time To Re-Encode Your Videos – Lifehacker Australia
We were directed to a Facebook page from Hong Kong this week. It’s been set up by one of the people involved in the peaceful demonstrations that are being called the Umbrella Revolution , protesting about Beijing’s insistence on vetting and controlling the list of candidates for they city’s Chief Executive, effectively preventing free elections in Hong Kong. Our very own Dave Honess is in Hong Kong this week (nothing to do with the demonstrations – he’s gone to see some Hong Kong friends for a holiday that’s been planned for a long time).
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Chinese Democracy
How to build your own Game Boy with a Raspberry Pi and a hot glue gun Polygon Using the Raspberry Pi , a credit card-sized computer on a single chip, hardware like a 3.5-inch LED screen and some emulation software, he created a modern take on a gaming classic. Check out the videos below to watch him document his progress and
Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she’s still carrying on with the Geek Gurl Diaries YouTube channel that she set up before she joined us – for which we’re all profoundly grateful, because her videos are some of the best tutorials we’ve seen.
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Timelapse tutorial from Carrie Anne’s Geek Gurl Diaries
We get a lot of emails saying: “Why aren’t you working on any schools stuff? We want to see materials!” The answer, up until now, has always been: “We’re working on it!” Here’s a sneak preview of what we’ve been doing. Working with OCR and Cambridge University Press, we’ve been producing a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) based around the GCSE Computing syllabus
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A preview of the new Cambridge GCSE Computing Online!