With this week’s Manchester Jamboree and next May’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam both focussing on the Raspberry Pi’s potential within education, I have invited Nevil Hunt from Innovations in Education to write for me a weekly series of blog posts describing…
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Book Review: Adventures in #RaspberryPi
At the December CamJam, I was lucky enough to buy a copy of Adventures in Raspberry Pi, the new book by Carrie Anne Philbin, award-winning teacher and now Education Pioneer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. I’ve taken some time to…
piCore review – TinyCore comes to the #RaspberryPi
TinyCore is a minimal Linux distro that gives you only what you need to boot and enter a graphical user interface. Linux User and Developer magazine has done a review of the Pi version (piCore) and you can read it…
Mission Control desk is powered by a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Jeff Highsmith has solved the problem of needing to obtain a desk on which his son can do his homework – and with some style. By using a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino together, he has created a Mission Control…
Come and meet lots of the #RaspberryPi crowd at the #RJamboree party!
The brilliant Lisa Mather has been organising the Friday night party at the Raspberry Jamboree, which is next week. She’s got together a whole load of swag (some of which is pictured below) and is organising swag bags and party games…
New series on Python and the GPIO from #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Matt Manning is busy writing a series on using the GPIO pins from Python. This exciting series will use a variety of different components wired up on a breadboard to do projects including the following: Turning on LEDs Blinking LEDs…
Installing Hadoop on a #RaspberryPi
Hadoop is a framework, written in Java, for handling large datasets. According to the Apache website: The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple…
Adventures in #RaspberryPi – get the book for cheap-as-chips price!
Photo from the Raspberry Pi Foundation (I hope no-one minds me hot-linking to it!) Fantastic news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. They’ve purchased a pallet full of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book “Adventures in Raspberry Pi”. They’ve made it available…
Cloud data logger with the #RaspberryPi
The guys over at Fluentd have written a short tutorial post showing how you can use the fluentd software to send statistical data to the Treasure Data cloud storage/analysis api. It doesn’t give very much help in terms of integrating it with…
PiWars – #RaspberryPi robotics competition – Coming in December 2014
At the February Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we announced “PiWars”. PiWars will be a challenge-based robotics competition for wheeled robots to be held in Cambridge on 6th December. Categories will include, for instance, a speed challenge, a maze navigation challenge and…