The Hour of Code is an initiative to give children a flavour of programming in a single hour, with the hope that they’ll continue their exploration afterwards. The Foundation have just released a set of tutorials and resources to support…
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Kano beta review by #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Just spotted this on Twitter. Matt Manning of Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has shot a video review of the Kano OS beta. He covers a lot of what the OS gives you and gives his very frank and honest opinion…
Mobile 24/7 power for your #RaspberryPi – a Kickstarter
Just a quick post to publicise a Kickstarter. This one is an add-on board for the Pi that allows you to connect up a wide variety of power sources. It allows you to connect multiple power sources to provide UPS…
#RaspberryPi User Guide by Upton and Halfacree – review
The kind folks over at Wiley have sent me a few books to review and here’s the first! The Raspberry Pi User Guide couldn’t come from better stock. It’s the work of Eben Upton, co-creator of the Raspberry Pi, and…
#RaspberryPi DSI screen makes a splash at the Jamboree
Picture courtesy of Ben Nuttall via Twitter The CPC stand at the Education Innovation conference where the Jamboree was co-located was fortunate enough to have available to view a brand new product from the Foundation. The brainchild of Gordon Hollingworth,…
Back to BASIC with the Fuze and the #RaspberryPi
Alasdair Allan attended the Education Innovation conference last week (where the Jamboree was co-located) and took a look at the Fuze – the retro-styled computer based around the Raspberry Pi. He’s interviewed Jon Silvera (managing director) about the project. Read…
Pinewood Derby race track with the #RaspberryPi
Over at Make they’re doing a Raspberry Pi birthday series of articles, so I thought I’d bring them to the attention of my blog readers. The first one is from a guy called Ryan Slaugh. He’s used a Pi and…
Pibrella GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi is now available!
Just launched today, the Pibrella is a simple GPIO add-on board for the Pi. It has on-board the following: 1 each of Red, Amber and Green LEDs. A buzzer. A button. Protected input/outputs broken out to female headers. It’s purple.…
Great photos and video from the Raspberry Jamboree – #RJamboree #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames took his Pi-plus-screen-plus-camera set-up to the Raspberry Jamboree last week and took some great pictures. He also grabbed some video of the party at the end of the event and has edited it together. So, if you attended…
New rollover map tells you all about the components of a #RaspberryPi
This nifty little image map is pretty cool – you hover your mouse over a component on the surface of the Raspberry Pi and a little tooltip comes up describing the component. Click here to take a look at the…