The “FiveNinjas” (James Adams and Gordon Hollingworth from Raspberry Pi, Jonathan Williamson and Paul Beech of Pimoroni, and Mo Volans) have written an excellent blog post over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which they describe the trials and tribulations…
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The Pi Podcast covers the Raspberry Pi Zero, Foundation gives advice on getting one
The guys over at Pi Podcast have just published their latest edition, and it’s all about the Raspberry Pi Zero. Listen to it here. Liz over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation has published some advice about how to get hold of…
New Raspberry Pi hits the shelves – the Zero is here
Exciting news today: the Raspberry Pi Zero is here! It’s half the size of an A+, has twice the memory (512MB) and will likely run 30-40% faster than the A+ thanks to some special magic (Read Alex Eames’ blog post for…
Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book published
Here’s a new publication from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Rather than print digital-only issues 31-35 individually, they have taken the ‘best bits’ from those issues and mashed them together to create the Projects Book. It has 200 pages and costs…
Astro Pi on the BBC’s One Show
Friday saw astronaut Tim Peake and Astro Pi competition winner Hannah Belshaw being interviewed on the BBC’s magazine programme The One Show. If you’re in the UK, you can watch the episode online via BBC iPlayer. Tim and Hannah talk…
Raspberry Pi terminal guide from the MagPi
The MagPi has published a guide to terminal commands that are especially relevant to Raspberry Pi owners.Conquer the Command Line, written by Bash expert Richard Smedley is available as a PDF download from the MagPi website.
New AstroPi website launched by Raspberry Pi Foundation
Apologies for the lack of posts this week. Between Pi Wars, EduKit 3, rehearsals for Parade and real-life work, I’ve been pretty slammed! With Astronaut Tim Peake going up to the International Space Station next month to run experiments on two…
Raspberry Pi merges with Code Club
Exciting news today. The CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Philip Colligan, has announced that Code Club is going to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raspberry Pi. I believe this is great news. Both organisations have similar aims – to get…
Skycademy round-up by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
In August, the Raspberry Pi Foundation ran Skycademy, a High Altitude Ballooning course for educators and kids group leaders. Since then, there have been several successful follow-up launches by the students of that course and James Robinson from the Foundation has…
Picademy Bytes for educators – 21st November – get to know the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon and the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Birmingham Picademy team is starting a new initiative in the city. Picademy Bytes is a free, 2 hour introductory course to the Raspberry Pi for educators and includes the following: learn how to set up…