Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has decided to give Minecraft on the Pi a go. You can follow his installation procedure here on the blog.
Category: Articles
50 Free eBooks On Python – useful for #RaspberryPi owners & Linux users alike
EFYTimes.com has brought together a list of 50 Free eBooks on the subject of Python.
Teaching computer program and coding skills with the #RaspberryPi
In advance of changes to the UK education curriculum, BBC Daily Politics has interviewed a small panel, including the Foundation’s Clive Beale, about the future of kids and programming. It’s a good watch, especially for parents and teachers.
#RaspberryPi Fortune Teller
Les Pounder has been working on a Raspberry Pi-driven fortune teller amusement machine. Here’s his latest video showing it in action. Here’s what he says about it: We use PiFace to control 12v electronics, and Python to control the program.…
Idaho prisoners use #RaspberryPi with offline Khan Academy
Khan Academy has 5.4 million monthly users of its educational videos, exercises, and gamelike badging platform online. Tens of thousands of schools are using the platform. Jamie Alexandre has taken the KA platform and created an offline version, called…
More from the September Cambridge Raspberry Jam #raspberrypi #rjam
John Alexander attended the Jam in September and has written a short report with some videos he shot at the event. One video in particular features Ciseco’s kit demo workshop – we haven’t had a recording of any of the…
The MagPi issue 17 is out for #RaspberryPi
This month’s issue features: Robotics with BrickPi I/O expansion boards Radio interface Scratch – fire ballistic missiles C – unions and dynamic memory allocation NanPy Eye tracking XML Download the issue here
The FT interviews Eben Upton of #RaspberryPi Foundation
Nice little article and interview with Eben about the growth of the Pi. Not much we haven’t heard or read before, but it’s still interesting as it comes at it from the business side. Some really bitchy comments below the…
Cambridge GCSE Computing online
This is a great learning resource for anyone who wants to get into programming or computing in general. It is a MOOC – a Massive Open Online Course – created by OCR, Cambridge University Press and the Raspberry Pi Foundation.…
Liz Upton reports from Broadcom MASTERS
This is just a quick post to say “Go and read this!!!” It’s a post on the Foundation website by Liz who, together with Eben, has been helping at the Broadcom MASTERS. It’s truly inspirational stuff.