Alan Broun at Dawn Robotics is currently pitching for a £20,000 fund from Jisc to develop their Raspberry Pi robotics kit. The kit comes with a chassis, motors, wheels, a driver board, a servo-controlled Pi camera and all the fixings necessary…
Category: Competitions
Vote for Raspberry Pi business FUZE to get them life-changing funding
Aylesbury-based FUZE Technologies is currently seeking £250,000 funding to take their business to the next level. They have applied to a competition run by Richard Branson called ‘Pitch to Rich’ in which companies ask the public to vote for them in order…
AstroPi primary school winners announced
Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Vote for Raspberry Pi in the Inquirer Tech Hero Awards
The Inquirer has unveiled the shortlist for its first Tech Hero Awards, aimed at celebrating the best business IT products and people across the industry. The awards cover software and hardware products, along with innovation, events and people working in IT departments…
PA Consulting school Raspberry Pi competition winners announced
Electronics Weekly attended the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition finals at the Science Museum. They’ve done a great blog post about the entrants and their projects here. The winners of the competition have now been announced and you can read…
Network Rail to use kids’ Raspberry Pi invention for safety
Network Rail is to use a Raspberry Pi-powered device to monitor safety at level crossings. Currently, level crossing “black spots” are monitored 24-7 by CCTV. The Raspberry Pi solution, developed by pupils at Haberdasher’s Monmouth School for Girls (pictured above), monitors…
Raspberry Pi space competition AstroPi continues to develop
Dave Honess of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written an excellent (and lengthy) update to the AstroPi project. AstroPi, for those of you who don’t already know, is aiming to send two Raspberry Pis up into orbit with astronaut Tim…
Sonic Pi competition finalists announced
Late last year, a competition was launched to celebrate the release of Sonic Pi v2 on the Raspberry Pi. School children aged between 7-16 were invited to create musical compositions using the software. Dr Sam Aaron, who created Sonic Pi,…
AstroPi officially launched at BETT – send a Raspberry Pi to space
At the BETT education conference in London last week, the Raspberry Pi Foundation officially launched the previously announced Astro Pi competition. Astro Pi will involve the launch of two Raspberry Pis into space with astronaut Tim Peake. Tim will take the…
Competitions galore for Raspberry Pi robotics kits
This month’s Linux User and Developer Magazine (issue 147) is a robotics special and, very flatteringly, they’ve based it all on the challenges from Pi Wars! It’s an excellent series of articles from the magazine that has proved itself to…