Raspi-LTSP is an ingenious way to run a school Raspberry Pi laboratory. It allows the teacher (or IT manager) to set-up an old PC that hosts the full Raspbian operating system which then gets ‘pushed’ over the network to individual Raspberry…
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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…
Tanzania secondary school gets the power of Raspberry Pi
Masekelo secondary school in Tanzania doesn’t have many resources. The children have to collect water for the school every day and there are often not enough desks and chairs to go around. The Tanzanian government has decreed that every school…
Raspberry Pi education CPD Picademy goes up North
Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s continuing professional development course for teachers, is going to York. The National STEM Centre is hosting the event which is taking place on the 26th and 27th May. If you are a teacher and you want to…
GCHQ unveils largest Raspberry Pi cluster
At The Big Bang Fair in Birmingham today, GCHQ unveiled what they’ve called the largest Raspberry Pi cluster ever. Nicknamed the OctaPi, the cluster sports 66 Raspberry Pis all networked together to form one supercomputer. You can read more over…
Raspberry Pi-powered Geeks Club in Nigeria
CcHub Nigeria will be launching a secondary school after-schools club known as “Geeks Club” on 11th March. 150 students selected from Lagos state will take part in the club which will use the Raspberry Pi to teach Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python.…
Raspberry Pi on CBBC Technobabble
Children’s technology show CBBC Technobabble went to Pi Towers recently. Reporter Frankie Vu interviewed the Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin in which she introduced the Pi and lots of cool stuff you can do with it, like build a weather station or…
Microscopy with the Raspberry Pi
The leader of the Purbeck STEM club took an Intel QX3 microscope toy and retro fitted it with a Raspberry Pi camera module. This required removing the lens from the module and then attaching it to the eye-piece of the QX3.…
Tech specs for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi HAT released
Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…
Indian state plans to distribute 10,000 Raspberry Pis a year
“The small sized Raspberry Pi will help in promoting basic computer science in the schools across Kerela,” says P H Kurian, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology & Department of Industries, Government of Kerala In an effort to kickstart the…