The piratical pirates over at Pimoroni are at it again! They’re running a Twitter-powered activity week with great discounts on all sorts of stuff and prizes awarded throughout. You can read all about the week’s plans here and you will…
Lorraine Underwood has entered the Element14 #badass Women Makers and Engineers Contest with this great hack of a couple of vintage-style telephones from Amazon. She removed the plate on the bottom of the telephones and fitted a Raspberry Pi. She then…
The last weekend of March sees the 5th Pi Wars competition. Teams from all over the world will come together in Cambridge, UK and compete against each other on seven challenge courses, hoping to earn points, prizes and glory. You…
This year’s edition of the brilliant autonomous robot competition, Formula Pi from our friends over at Pi Borg, comes to a thrilling conclusion tonight (Wednesday, 10th October 2018) at 18.30 GMT. With an international field of roboteers, it’s sure to be exciting…
Tim and I are delighted to announce that details of the challenges set for Pi Wars 2019 are now available on the Pi Wars website. I’ve also included links to the individual challenges below. We were delighted to be able…
Tim Richardson and I are pleased to announce that our next Pi Wars competition will take place on 30th & 31st March 2019. The competition, which has grown substantially since its inception in 2014, last year attracted over 150 applicants…
Cambridgeshire-based UK robot manufacturer Pi Borg has held the winter 2017/18 season Grand Final of their autonomous driving competition, Formula Pi. The finalists were: IQaudIO lambda.p.racing Enigma Swinders The Hayler-Goodalls The competition, which sees self-driving Raspberry Pi-powered cars zooming around a…
Who doesn’t love a free Christmas giveaway? Not many people, I’m going to assume as this is normally very popular with my readers! So, I am again running a Christmas giveaway this year. Enter your details on this page to…
Barclays Eagle Labs in Notting Hill is running a free, two-day hackathon for young makers aged 11-15 – hopefully it’s a success because we’re relying on these young people to save us from an Apocalypse!!! The hackathon is being run to…
Attention all Pioneers teams! The world is in danger and “Only You Can Save Us”. The Raspberry Foundation has announced the next challenge in their Pioneers series. You’ll have to watch the video below to find out lots more but suffice…
