After the onslaught that was the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend, myself and Tim Richardson are holding a much more relaxed, much smaller, Jam in our home town of Potton, Bedfordshire on Saturday, 11th April from 2-6pm. You can book…
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Egham Raspberry Jam – 26th April
Albert Hickey is running another Jam at the Gartner HQ in Egham on 26th April from 2-5pm. This Jam will feature opportunities to try out Sonic Pi and Minecraft Pi Edition. You can read about a previous Egham Jam here.…
Solar eclipse captured by multiple Raspberry Pis
The Pi really came into it’s own as a piece of scientific equipment last Friday during the solar eclipse. Multiple people set up webcams to capture the event, perhaps the best one was at the National STEM Centre in York… which…
Raspberry Pis in the Sky for the solar eclipse
Dave Akerman will once again be using the Raspberry Pi in a pair of balloon launches that will take place at 8am on Friday in time for the solar eclipse due to occur in the UK around 9.30am. The two launches,…
Raspberry Pi education CPD Picademy goes up North
Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s continuing professional development course for teachers, is going to York. The National STEM Centre is hosting the event which is taking place on the 26th and 27th May. If you are a teacher and you want to…
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – 25th April
The next Covent Garden Raspberry Jam will take place on Saturday, 25th April at the Dragon Hall Trust, 17 Stukeley Street WC2B 5LT, from 2-5pm. There will be two workshops: one on Minecraft Pi, the other on Sonic Pi as well…
Raspberry Jamboree 2015 – NEXT WEEK!
This year’s Raspberry Jamboree is next week at Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Preston, PR2 3SQ. It is a three-day event in which people of all ages and all levels of experience come together and celebrate all things Pi. Friday (during the day) –…
GCHQ unveils largest Raspberry Pi cluster
At The Big Bang Fair in Birmingham today, GCHQ unveiled what they’ve called the largest Raspberry Pi cluster ever. Nicknamed the OctaPi, the cluster sports 66 Raspberry Pis all networked together to form one supercomputer. You can read more over…
The story of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend
A little belated, but I’ve been so busy this week! Some of the photos were taken from this post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site – I think Ben Nuttall took them! The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend seems to…
Lovely write-up of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend from Make
Founder of Make, and all-round nice chap, Dale Dougherty attended the Big Birthday Weekend last weekend and has done a lovely write-up of what he saw and heard during the event. Take a look here. Photo: Marshals give out Swag Bags after…