When Raspbian Jessie was launched a week-and-a-bit ago, included in it was a new version of Scratch. In addition to an overall improvement in speed/performance, native GPIO support was introduced as well as the ability to control the Camera Module. This…
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New GPIO wrapper library for the Raspberry Pi
Ben Nuttall has been working hard to create a library which will provide a simpler interface to the GPIO pins. The library is called GPIO Zero. At the moment, on the RPi.GPIO library, there are a couple of commands to…
New version of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi – moves to “Jessie”
Exciting news on the operating system front this morning. Raspbian, the standard OS for the Raspberry Pi, now uses the Jessie version of Debian as a base. This has introduced several new improvements, chiefly among which are: sudo-less GPIO access…
Matt Richardson talks AstroPi, SenseHAT and Raspberry Pis
Here’s a quick video from Matt Richardson, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s ‘man in the States’. In it he talks about AstroPi, the SenseHAT and sending them up into space. It’s all in aid of getting kids interested in coding. He…
October issue of The MagPi for Raspberry Pi owners out now!
The latest issue of The MagPi is out and it looks to be a good one. The central feature is a “building a robot” special which aims to get you up-and-running for £50. We recently announced the third CamJam EduKit…
Map the Minecraft world around you on a Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have published a new SenseHAT tutorial. This one interrogates Minecraft Pi and creates a map of the surrounding blocks. This map is then sent to the SenseHAT where it is displayed on the 8×8 LED matrix. Read…
Use Kivy to create a touchscreen GUI on the Raspberry Pi display
When the new Raspberry Pi display launched on Tuesday one of the most exciting things for me was shown on the Raspberry Pi blog – a touch screen GUI written using a Python library called Kivy. The demo was done by the Foundation’s…
Raspberry Pi goes to Estonia
Following a successful trip to Estonia in February, the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in the guide of Ben Nuttall, has returned to deliver Raspberry Pi kits to schools. You can read more about the two trips over at the Foundation.
The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben Upton
In what is becoming a regular event, Matthew Timmons-Brown has interviewed Eben Upton and posed your questions to him. He covers things like the new Screen, the potential future of the Pi, Minecraft Pi Edition, Windows 10 IoT and all kinds…
Skycademy write-up shows how exciting it was!
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…