Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Allen Heard is running a three-day “Tech Dojo” in Rhyl, North-East Wales from Monday 27th-Wednesday 29th July. Some of the activities on offer are as follows: Use a Pi to create artificial intelligence Build an intruder alarm…
Category: Education
Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists introduced
Creative Technologists is a 12-month long mentoring programme for 16-21 year olds. You can read more about the programme here. Thanks to Ben Nuttall, who has just published a post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, we now know much more about…
AstroPi primary school winners announced
Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Raspberry Pi Picademy goes South West
In the past few months, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put a lot effort into making their free CPD course for teachers, known as Picademy, portable so that they can take it on the road. Their next two-day event will…
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches new Picademy@Google initiative
The Foundation has just announced a new programme of Picademy training at a centre in Leeds. Picademy@Google will take place on the dates shown below at a pop-up space known as a “Digital Garage”: 21st – 22nd May 2015 8th –…
Using the PiStop with Scratch on the Raspberry Pi
Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant PiStop from 4tronix. This simple little GPIO plug in board gives you access to some traffic light LEDs that you then program using your favourite language on the…
Theatrical endeavour for one lucky Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ, who teaches at KESH Academy in Birmingham, had a problem: How to give a Tin Man a heart. For his school’s performances of The Wizard of Oz, he decided that a Raspberry Pi was the way to go.…
Raspberry Pi egg-laying machine
Richard Hayler and his sons have been at the LEGO again. This time, they’ve created a LEGO chicken which lays real eggs by using motors to manipulate an egg out of the tail end. Read all about it here.
PA Consulting school Raspberry Pi competition winners announced
Electronics Weekly attended the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition finals at the Science Museum. They’ve done a great blog post about the entrants and their projects here. The winners of the competition have now been announced and you can read…