Nice little article and interview with Eben about the growth of the Pi. Not much we haven’t heard or read before, but it’s still interesting as it comes at it from the business side. Some really bitchy comments below the…
Category: Education
Cambridge GCSE Computing online
This is a great learning resource for anyone who wants to get into programming or computing in general. It is a MOOC – a Massive Open Online Course – created by OCR, Cambridge University Press and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…
Liz Upton reports from Broadcom MASTERS
This is just a quick post to say “Go and read this!!!” It’s a post on the Foundation website by Liz who, together with Eben, has been helping at the Broadcom MASTERS. It’s truly inspirational stuff.
School racing car project gets performance monitoring from a #RaspberryPi
St Faith’s school in Cambridge has had help from ARM to build it’s battery-powered racing car, the Green Goblin. To keep track of the performance of the car, they use a Raspberry Pi! Read a little more at Cambridge News
Sonic Pi – a computing resource for teachers (and all of us!) #RaspberryPi
Just saw this on the Foundation site and wanted to share it with you all as it’s just the kind of educational resource that is vital for the Pi to be used in schools. I think I’ll let the Foundation’s…
Engaging Mums & Sons, Dads & Daughters in Computer Science with #RaspberryPi
Alan O’Donohoe (@teknoteacher) recently presented at the Global STEMx Education Conference. It’s a great presentation because it shows how the community (via Raspberry Jams and other events) is trying to engage families, especially young people, with the Raspberry Pi to…
#RaspberryPi STEM Club experience
I cannot remember for the live of me whether I’ve already blogged this, but all the same it’s worthwhile multiple posts! Here’s David Whale’s experience and lessons learned from running a STEM club using the Pi with 50 kids! Read…
Code Club on the #RaspberryPi
Penguin Tutor has set-up a Code Club at a primary school and is using Raspberry Pis to help teach them programming. This is a fantastic, realistic write-up of the benefits and pitfalls of using Pis in schools. Read it here
Presentation from PyCon India shows how to control GPIO pins on the #RaspberryPi
Sudar Muthu has just finished presenting at the Python conference PyCon in India. He’s kindly shared his slides, code and circuit diagrams from the conference so we can all see how a simple electronics project is put together. Read more…
Looking back on a two-week camp with a #RaspberryPi course
Gordon Henderson, of WiringPi fame, has just finished leading a Raspberry Pi course at the Winchester-based Techcamp 2013. He’s written up his experiences getting the young people programming with Bash, BASIC, Python and Minecraft as well as other activities they…