As the headline says, the new issue of The MagPi magazine has been published. It’s available in WHSmith’s in the UK and Barnes & Noble or MicroCenter in the USA. It’s also available for free in PDF format from The MagPi…
Category: Raspberry Pi Foundation
SenseHAT launched by the @Raspberry_Pi Foundation – an extensive first look
This morning, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the immediate availability of the SenseHAT. The SenseHAT is the guts of the Astro Pi and has an inherent space-aged coolness built in. The board you hold in your hands is the same hardware that is…
Flight safety testing details for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi
Since March, the Astro Pi package, that will go onto the International Space Station, has been undergoing a series of rigorous tests to demonstrate it’s space-worthiness. Dave Honess has blogged over at the Foundation about exactly what it’s been through…
Follow the Raspberry Pi #Skycademy flights now!
Very shortly, several high altitude balloons will be launched from a location in Cambridgeshire by the folks from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Skycademy. You can track them on HabHub. Look out for RPF-named trackers. You can follow Twitter traffic by searching…
Skycademy update – follow the Raspberry Pi balloons next week!
Skycademy is a new initiative from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will teach educators and children’s group leaders how to launch high altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis attached. Next week, a series of balloons will be launched by the 24…
A day in the life of Raspberry Pi’s Liz Upton
Just wanted to quickly blog this absolutely charming article written by the brilliant Liz from the Foundation. It’s a ‘day in the life’ blog post in which she describes a typical day (if life at the Foundation is ever typical!) and includes…
Lots of education-related videos from EuroPython over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation website
Recently, some of the Foundation’s education team headed over to Bilbao, Spain for the EuroPython conference. Many of the talks were recorded and the Foundation have blogged about the ones that they presented. They are: Carrie Anne Philbin – Education: A Python solution…
Raspberry Pi Guy seeks questions for Eben Upton
On Tuesday, Matthew Timmons-Brown is heading up to Pi Towers in Cambridge. As part of his visit there he will be interviewing Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading and co-creator of the Raspberry Pi. He wants to know what you…
Create a banana beat box with the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin was recently in Sydney giving talks and workshops to do with the Pi. As part of this, she set-up a slideshow tutorial at speakerdeck.com that tells you how to use the Pimoroni Explorer HAT…
First print issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi goes on sale today!
Today, The MagPi magazine comes of age when it appears in print for the first time. The new 100-page edition of the magazine is sure to be full of terrific articles and will hopefully catch the eyes of Pi owners, particularly…