Here’s a recording of Nick Raymond, at Maker Faire NYC, speaking about how to get started with breadboarding and the benefits thereof.
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New blog follows a beginner with his #RaspberryPi
Matt Gaunt, a Chrome developer at Google, has just got his Raspberry Pi and he’s decided to blog about his experiences. His first tasks? Setting up wi-fi and updating the firmware. Read it here
Absolute Raspberries announces amazing Bootcamp featuring #RaspberryPi
The guys at Cardiff-based Absolute Raspberries have announced a great three-day bootcamp at the end of February/beginning of March. Here’s some details: The event will take place on Friday the 28th of February to Sunday the 2nd of March, 9am…
Turn a #RaspberryPi into an oscilloscope
Instructables user ‘tnkrmnz’ has written a tutorial on using a MSO-28 Oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi to create a portable unit that you can connect to with your smartphone. Part of the tutorial includes turning the unit into a wifi…
Registration for the February Cambridge Raspberry Jam is now open #camjam #rjam
Registration for the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on 8th February is now open. For the morning programming workshop for kids, it’s http://camjamworkshop.eventbrite.co.uk/ and for the afternoon session that’s suitable-for-all, it’s: http://camjam.eventbrite.co.uk/
Grid piano practice machine uses a #RaspberryPi at it’s heart
Marc “Nostromo” Resibois has taken a Pi and a Novation Launchpad and created a beautiful musical instrument. Read more here.
#RaspberryPi-based tablet is a piece of design beauty
Michael Castor has written a great article on MakeZine about making his PiPad – a Raspberry Pi-based tablet. He used a touchscreen from Chalk Elec and then created his own, beautiful, surround for it. It all runs off a battery…
Scratch programming in Easy Steps – book review
Primary School teach Ian Addison has blogged a review of Sean McManus’ book “Scratch Programming in Easy Steps”. Read it here
Create a mini Maker Space for the #RaspberryPi and other electronics work
Christian Tsu-Raun has written a lovely piece at scholastic.com about what to put in your work area for your Maker activities. He describes a great work desk and explains all about what you need to fill it with to get…
Creating a spectrometer to use with a #RaspberryPi
Bob LeSuer has created something which I’m dying to add to the Picorder. It’s a spectrometer. A spectrometer is (according to Wikipedia): an instrument used to measure properties of light over a specific portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, typically used…