According to the latest Education newsletter, a weather station project run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and funded by Oracle, is entering it’s prototype testing phase. The weather station is primarily a HAT add-on board with a few peripherals developed by Dave Honess. A…
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South African computer lab powered by Raspberry Pis goes live
Back in July, the Raspberry Pi Foundation covered a crowdfunding project to create a solar-powered computer lab in South Africa. The crowdfunding was a success and the lab is now up-and-running. At the heart of the lab is a classroom set…
Jam Packed – a new initiative from Raspberry Jam founder Alan O’Donohoe
Alan O’Donohoe, who (along with Ben Nuttall) started off the whole Raspberry Jam initiative, has started up a new ‘thing’ and called it “Jam Packed“. It is a two-day community computing event aimed at schools and families comprising a “Hack…
RACHEL-Pi – the offline Raspberry Pi bringing education to far-flung locations
RACHEL-Pi is a great project that is being used in remote locations to distribute educational materials. Here’s what Liz Upton has to say about it on the Foundation’s blog: RACHEL is an offline server, run on a Raspberry Pi, full…
Raspberry Pi CPD for teachers comes to Wales – Picademy Cymru
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced that they are to hold a special Picademy in Wales on 19th and 20th November. The event, which is seeking to attract Welsh primary and secondary teachers, is to be run at the Sony…
Monitors needed for Raspberry Pi learning at Hertfordshire college
Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack and CEO of Ryanteck Ltd, is desperately trying to get hold of some monitors for North Hertfordshire College’s STEM Centre for use in the Raspberry Pi Club. The Club is open to the public as well…
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…
The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo
Dominique Laloux and his team, together with some great funding from various sources, have created what the Raspberry Pi Foundation believes to be the first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo. For more on this great story, head over to…
Breaking the North Korean wall with the Raspberry Pi
Recently, a two day event called “Hack North Korea” was held in which teams came up with ways to distribute information in the notoriously difficult-to-crack North Korea. North Korea uses some particularly draconian measures when it comes to freedom of information…
Cleaning USB drives of nasties with the Raspberry Pi
The Foundation has covered the work of a bunch of investigative journalists and hackers who have been using the Raspberry Pi to help clean USB flash drives and extract data from them. Apparently it’s quite a problem in developing countries…