Don and his wife have a two year old daughter. They’re trying to teach her the concept of time, and get her to understand that, perhaps, one o’clock in the morning is not the perfect time of day for play! To help…
Category: Education
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Creative Technologists initiative
Rachel Rayns and Ben Nuttall are heading up a new initiative – Creative Technologists. Here’s what they have to say about it on the blog: The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged…
Raspberry Pi education team gains CAS Master Teacher
James Robinson has joined the Raspberry Pi education team and is tasked with writing more resources for their website as well as contributing to their outreach and Picademy programmes. James is a CAS (Computing at School) Master Teacher and Hub Leader and brings…
Pi Evangelist gives his Raspberry Pi birthday greeting
Spencer Organ has done a lovely blog post and accompanying video about his experiences during the last 3 years of Raspberry Pi. Actually quite touching the way he’s put together his highlights 🙂 Have a read and a watch here.
Reaction game with ScratchGPIO on the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler is currently running a Code Club at his school. This week he created a worksheet which helped his class make a reaction game using ScratchGPIO, a breadboard, a couple of switches and an LED. Take a look at…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
Marshmallow fun with the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has adapted one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s resources into a single-page worksheet (pictured above) for use at his Code Club. The project uses a marshmallow and a paper clip to create a button which can be detected using ScratchGPIO.…
Teaching literature with the Raspberry Pi
Thanks to Helen over at the Foundation for blogging about this Sarah Roman’s high school class in New Jersey, USA is currently studying Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In an effort to promote digital literacy within her class she is looking to…
DesignSpark Raspberry Pi classroom projects
DesignSpark have published some good-looking resources for teachers to use in the classroom to help students learn about the GPIO. They are as follows: Program a seven-segment display. Read digital signals and analogue signals (via an A2D chip) and how…
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…