To celebrate the coming of the New Year, I decided to look back over the last twelve months and see what’s happened in the world of Raspberry Pi. You can find my Review of the Year on this page. (I’ve…
Category: Opinion
More Raspberry Pi Model A+ coverage
Comparison photo from Alex Eames of RasPi.TV I like days like this where there’s a big news story. Here are some more articles about the A+ launch, some of which have some… interesting… comments on. There’s no more new information about the…
Raspberry Pi-powered Kano ships and is reviewed
According to Kano, the first 18,000 units of their Pi-powered computing platform for kids have shipped. According to a report on TechCrunch.com by Natasha Lomas, around 1,000 units have already landed with the rest due shortly. (Not terribly sure if…
Founder of Raspberry Jams nominated for Digital Award – vote now!
Alan O’Donohoe, who started the Raspberry Jam phenomenon, and is just a generally good man and nice chap has been nominated for the Volunteer Digital Hero category of the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards. I can’t say enough good stuff about Alan. Without…
Computer classrooms and how they should look
Clive Beale’s written a great piece on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s blog about the new Computing curriculum and how that will work in practice in the classroom. Read it here.
Great #RaspberryPi websites – RasPi.Today – @RasPiToday
This is number 9 in my list of Great Sites. This time, it’s RasPi.Today, a fairly new site which showcases it’s own podcast and original interviews. It is currently the only website that offers a regular podcast. Created and managed by Russell Barnes,…
Raspberry PiPod is now responsive and mobile-friendly
After a bit of messing around with different themes, Alex Eames suggested that I should make sure I hadn’t turned the responsive option off in the theme settings. It turns out it wasn’t that, but it did get me thinking… if…
#RaspberryPi Pod hits one million page views!
In a remarkable stroke of luck, I was able to see the moment when my blog tipped onto the 1,000,000th page view mark this morning at about 6.45am. I should add, very quickly, that I didn’t wait up all night…
Celebrating Geekness Day
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Lisa Margetis from SingleHop about the upcoming Geekness Day on 13th July. Ahead of this date, they’ve asked lots of people to answer some questions. So here goes… What makes you…
My #RaspberryPi Anniversary
Not much to report this evening apart from a quick mention of my second Pi-versary. Two years ago on this date, I received my first Raspberry Pi (see the picture of the box above!). I didn’t have a clue what…