Cat Lamin is holding another one of her wonderful Coding Evenings in Twickenham on 24th March. The event takes place at Stokes and Moncreiff on Richmond Road from 6.30-9.30pm. Coding Evenings are aimed at both teachers and community members and seek to join…
Category: Education
pi-top Champions Raspberry Pi workshops at the National Museum of Computing, Milton Keynes – 19th February
Recently, pi-top announced the Champions scheme in which certain individuals and teams were provided with a set of pi-top Ceeds to be used at events and workshops. Well, on Sunday, 19th February, several of us will be involved in giving workshops…
Raspberry Pi goes to Scout camp
I’ve just been reading about Ben Nuttall’s adventures at Wintercamp, a Scouts activity camp run at Gilwell Park in Chingford, UK. He was there, along with a set of Pi-Top Ceeds, to run activities described as “a gentle introduction to…
Raspberry Pi and Computing at School launch a new magazine for educators – Hello World!
Raspberry Pi has announced today the launch of a joint venture with Computing at School: a magazine designed for educators seeking help in the digital making environment. It is called Hello World and is available free from the Raspberry Pi website. It…
Raspberry Pi launches a new Digital Making Curriculum
Raspberry Pi have today announced their new Digital Making Curriculum. Reported by Director of Education Carrie Anne Philbin, the curriculum aims to help individuals from a wide variety of age groups to further their digital making skills. You can read…
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches first Pioneers theme – Comedy!
The Foundation have just announced the first theme for their Pioneers scheme – comedy! That’s right, teams must develop and hack together something which will make people laugh! Pioneers is the Foundation’s latest attempt to engage with young makers. The scheme is…
Great collection of Raspberry Pi project resources from Les Pounder
Les Pounder, who writes for various Linux and Pi magazines and is an all-round top bloke :-), has just drawn my attention to a great list of Pi-related resources that he has written. There’s loads of projects and guides, including some…
An oscilloscope and function generator created using a Raspberry Pi and a PIC32
Advitya Khanna, Jeff Witz and Danna Ma teamed up for their final year project on a Cornell University course, Designing with Microcontrollers. They have created a combination digital oscilloscope and function generator that runs an interface on a Raspberry Pi and…
PocketLab campaign to fund two sensor-packed devices that can communicate with the Raspberry Pi
Clifton Roozeboom has been in touch. He and the team at PocketLab are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab Weather. They are small devices that are packed with sensors and communicate with a host device over Bluetooth.…
Free online training courses from the Raspberry Pi Foundation teach you about physical computing and primary education
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the imminent availability of two online training courses that will help you get started with the Raspberry Pi and get a certificate at the end of it. The courses are: Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry…