Here’s Sam Aaron talking at CPEU3 (at the O2 Arena) about his music programming environment Sonic Pi. He’s a great presenter and it’s very worthwhile listening to how this can be used in the classroom.
Category: Articles
Cross-compiling Qt Apps for #RaspberryPi with Visual Studio
This is a bit of fringe interest so I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s for you or not! Tutorial: Cross-compiling Qt Apps for Raspberry Pi with Visual Studio.
Baked in Britain, the millionth #RaspberryPi & discussion
Rory Cellan-Jones has published his own Pi-related article on the BBC to celebrate the millionth Pi being produced in the UK. This isn’t the interesting bit. The interesting bit comes in the comments section below the article in which a…
BBC #RaspberryPi article
Mark Ward, a BBC technology correspondent, has published a nice ‘cool projects’ article up on BBC News. Nothing particularly new or groundbreaking here, but it’s still good to see some mainstream coverage. Read the article or carry on reading here for…
More programming examples for the Pi Lite and #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins, aka Raspberry Pi Spy, has been playing with the Pi-Lite and has written a tutorial on displaying custom sprites and animating them. All his code is available online including a little sprite editor that gives you the string…
1 millionth UK #RaspberryPi comes off production line
Now displayed in a gold-plated case at Raspberry Pi Headquarters in Cambridge, the 1 millionth UK-manufactured Raspberry Pi has now been produced by the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales. The plant recently won a slew of awards at the Best…
Podcast from the Preston Raspberry Jam #rjam
Alan O’Donohoe has posted up a podcast from last night’s (7 October 2013) Raspberry Jam in Preston. Plenty of interviews and a real ‘being there’ feel. Listen to the podcast here
Picopter dissertation by Matthew Watson uses a #RaspberryPi
Sheffield-based Matthew Watson has been building a quadcopter with an onboard Raspberry Pi. He’s now written his dissertation regarding the project and has published it online. Very interesting to read and gives a lot of technical information on the challenges he…
RasPi.TV uses Sonic Pi to create Flight of the Bumblebee on a #RaspberryPi
Alex has been having fun with Carrie-Anne Philbin’s Sonic Pi tutorials and has recreated the classic Flight of the Bumblebee using his Pi. Read all about it and listen here
Create a Sudoku Solver using a #RaspberryPi, Python and Pygame
Trevor Appleton has written an extensive post (and I mean extensive) about this programming problem. Very well worth reading if you’re a newcomer to Python, Pygame and Tkinter (for creating GUIs). Read the tutorial here