Based in the small town of Shtime, British Engineer Andy Moxon runs a club called Young Innovators. The club “aims to bring to life maths and physics, while also teaching the students programming and robotics”. He’s currently preparing his two classes for…
Category: Education
Virtual Forest experience powered by a Raspberry Pi
Koen Hufkens is a research associate at Harvard University and his research focuses on “understanding the relation between climate (change) and seasonal variability in vegetation growth”. He’s also a maker and software developer and he has brought all these interests together…
Rewarding good behaviour with the Raspberry Pi
Stuart Harrison has a young son whose school awards (good behaviour) reward points and (bad) behaviour points. Frustrated with the school’s interface, Stuart set-up a screen scraper to get the data off their system and put it onto his own…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Why do kids need to learn to code? A talk by Cat Lamin at PyConUK
Cat Lamin is a former primary school teacher who now makes a living sharing her knowledge of education, particularly as it relates to computer science. She founded the Coding Evenings movement and is a regular at Raspberry Jams in the…
Raspberry Pi’s Picademy and Code Club Pro come to Glasgow
This Autumn, Raspberry Pi takes Picademy and Code Club Pro North of the border into Glasgow. The events, which take place on 14-15 October, 25-26 October, 1-2 November and 28-29 November at the Mitchell Library, are part of the Foundation’s outreach programme. I’ll let them…
Skycademy 2016 starts at Raspberry Pi headquarters
The Foundation’s Dan Fisher has just blogged about Skycademy, which starts today in their Cambridge HQ. 30 educators were invited to take part and they are currently learning the ins and outs of High Altitude Ballooning. You can read more about…
Help a Masters student at UEA understand the Raspberry Pi brand
Here’s an interesting proposition for you. John Nguyen is currently studying for a Masters at the University of East Anglia on the subject of Brands and Branding. He has been in touch and asked for assistance with his research, and the…
Cross curriculum whole-school activity day featuring the Raspberry PI
Eastlea Community School, located in the London Borough of Newham, recently ran a whole-school activity day which featured a variety of computers and micro-controllers, including the Raspberry Pi. Clive Beale from the Raspberry Pi Foundation was invited along and you…
Young Digital Makers invited to Raspberry Pi for a day of hacking and tinkering
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that they are holding a Digital Making day for youngsters on the 23rd August (which is my birthday, but let’s ignore that for now… God knows I’m trying to). To apply, you need…