The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free CPD for educators is coming to Birmingham. The sessions, which will be led by Martin O’Hanlon, will be held at the latest Google Digital Garage which is located inside Birmingham Library. The following dates are available: 27th…
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Raspberry Pi’s Dave Honess highlighted in The Cornishman
Cornwall-based news site The Cornishman has featured Raspberry Pi’s Dave Honess in a special report which covers his work on Astro Pi. Read the article here. It’s a nice article which explains Astro Pi and talks about some of the…
Detecting sweaty astronauts with the Raspberry Pi’s Astro Pi board
Richard Hayler’s primary school Code Club has recently been selected as one of the winning entries in the Astro Pi competition. Their code is one of the projects that will actually run on the International Space Station! It uses the Astro…
RasPiO GPIO ruler for Raspberry Pi announces philanthropic stretch goal
Alex Eames has announced a stretch goal for the Raspberry Pi GPIO ruler he launched on Kickstarter last week. What is the stretch goal? The target for the goal is 1000 backers or £6000 and, if either of these are hit,…
New Raspberry Pi CEO sets off office burglar alarm
Philip Colligan is the new CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation (the charitable bit) and is looking forward to seeing in what direction he can take the Foundation forward. In the latest blog post on the Foundation’s website, Philip tells us about…
Raspberry Pi scoops Tech4Good award
The Raspberry Pi has won the Judges’ Award at this year’s Tech4Good awards ceremony. The ceremony took place at the BT Centre on Tuesday. Speaking during the ceremony, Philip Colligan, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, said: “We’re delighted and very…
Skycademy – learn about High Altitude Ballooning with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation is running a two-and-a-half day free CPD session for teachers and anyone who works with youngsters (such as scout leaders etc) on the subject of High Altitude Ballooning. The event, which runs from 24th-26th of August, will enable…
The story behind the official Raspberry Pi case
Here’s a great post over at the Foundation written by Gordon Hollingworth. It describes in details the trials and tribulations (or possible tribble-ations, for those Trekkies amongst you) of producing an injection moulded case for the Pi. This new official case…
Picademy comes home to Cambridge for July’s CPD course
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the next Picademy course, and it’s in Cambridge. As you can see from the graphic above, it takes place on 13th-14th July. Picademy is the brilliant concept that takes teachers through using the Raspberry Pi…
Marvel teams up with Raspberry Pi Foundation to launch competition for US girls
Read the headline. Now re-read it. Yes, that’s right, Marvel! The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Marvel, in association with the Ant-Man movie, have launched a competition in the US, the prizes for which include tickets for the Ant-Man premiere in…