This just turned up in my inbox, so I thought I’d share for those of you reading my blog on this wet (in the UK) Bank Holiday. The Pi Hut is currently running a competition, ending Tuesday, to win a…
Category: Competitions
Astro Pi winning team’s teacher tells all about their entry
Teacher Dan Aldred from Thirsk School has been telling Linux User and Developer all about his year 7 club’s winning entry into the Astro Pi competition. He covers everything from how the club was set-up, how they came up with their idea of tracking the…
Pi Wars programme cover design competition
On the day of Pi Wars, we hand out programmes to every competitor and every spectator. These programmes contain details about the competition and also about our sponsors. Here is what the programme looked like last year: This year, we…
Detecting sweaty astronauts with the Raspberry Pi’s Astro Pi board
Richard Hayler’s primary school Code Club has recently been selected as one of the winning entries in the Astro Pi competition. Their code is one of the projects that will actually run on the International Space Station! It uses the Astro…
Raspberry Pi scoops Tech4Good award
The Raspberry Pi has won the Judges’ Award at this year’s Tech4Good awards ceremony. The ceremony took place at the BT Centre on Tuesday. Speaking during the ceremony, Philip Colligan, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said: “We’re delighted and very…
Raspberry Pi in space – Astro Pi announces all the winners
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have posted some news about the Astro Pi competition. All the winners have now been selected and it is now clear whose code will be run on the International Space Station. There is a mix of private…
Pi Wars publishes a guide to getting started with Raspberry Pi robotics
I’ve just finished updating a page on the Pi Wars website that should provide enough information for anyone to get started with Raspberry Pi robotics (and maybe even enter the competition!) It includes a list of things you need to…
Ipswich Makerspace open-sources their Raspberry Pi robot from Pi Wars
Keith Ellis and the guys over at Ipswich Makerspace did brilliantly well with their robot, TractorBot, at last year Pi Wars. They won Best Robot under £75 and placed very respectably in most of the challenges. (You can see the full…
Raspberry Pi robot competition Pi Wars opens up registration
The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year’s event. There are two application forms: The main competition – for those…
Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams
Following the success of last year’s event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December…