Pimoroni have now made their 100,000th Pibow, the excellent multi-layered case for the Raspberry Pi. To celebrate, they’re giving away 512 Pibows (and other accessories) to worthy causes with naked Model Bs. To get hold of the equipment, all you…
Category: Competitions
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
New open hack competition for young people launched by Duke of York
The Duke of York and Young Rewired State have teamed up to launch the Peer to Peer Challenge. The five week competition aims to encourage more young people to discover and use programming and digital skills. There are 5 challenges to…
VideoCore IV graphics core documentation and complete stack source to be released for the #RaspberryPi
I’m not really the best person to ask about the Pi’s GPU (in fact, ask me nothing as that’s what I know) but it’s big news that Broadcom has announced that the VideoCore IV graphics core has been completely documented…
PiWars – #RaspberryPi robotics competition – Coming in December 2014
At the February Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we announced “PiWars”. PiWars will be a challenge-based robotics competition for wheeled robots to be held in Cambridge on 6th December. Categories will include, for instance, a speed challenge, a maze navigation challenge and…
Google & RPi Foundation #RaspberryPi giveaway for 2000 kids
In support of “Hour of Code” as part of Computer Science Education Week, the Foundation is giving away 2000 Google Pis to schools and individual kids. This is a competition and involves a) running an Hour of Code workshop before…
RasPi.TV creates a Twitter app in Python with Tweepy on a #RaspberryPi
Alex has been busy again. Spurred on by his wish to do a prize draw that picks a random twitter follower, he has used the Python library “tweepy”, found out how to use it following a Twitter API change, and…
PA Consulting launch #RaspberryPi competition
UK-based PA Consulting Group have announced their 2013/14 Raspberry Pi project competition. Here’s what they have to say: To create your project, you can use a Raspberry Pi as well as additional hardware up to the value of £100. The…
#RaspberryPi takes 100,000 Euro INDEX prize
The Raspberry Pi has won the Play category of the INDEX prize, netting the Foundation a 100,000 Euro prize. The money will be spent on hiring two new employees to further their educational aims. Big congratulations to the Foundation for…
#RaspberryPi case challenge – design it, get it printed
i.materialise, Autodesk 123D and the Foundation have teamed up to run a competition in which you will need to design a 3D-printable case for the Pi. Full details of the competition and how to enter can be found here The prize…