FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) is the UK’s leading media arts centre, based in Liverpool. On Sunday 28th June and Saturday 11th July, they’re running a robotic gardening workshop for adult-child teams. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has donated 100…
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Raspberry Pi Model B+ price slashed
Despite the Pi 2 being the newest and hottest Pi out there, the Model B+ has continued to sell well. As a side effect of optimisations made to the manufacturing process for the Raspberry Pi 2, the B+ is now…
Getting started with the Astro Pi
For those groups who are lucky enough to get hold of an Astro Pi board, it can be a little bewildering when it comes to getting started. Fortunately, Martin O’Hanlon has done a quick start guide that will help you download…
Desktop GUI update for the Raspberry Pi
Simon Long from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced a big update for the standard desktop GUI. Improvements include: New interface for setting up network connections (including wi-fi). New interface for volume and audio settings. New interface for changing desktop…
Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists introduced
Creative Technologists is a 12-month long mentoring programme for 16-21 year olds. You can read more about the programme here. Thanks to Ben Nuttall, who has just published a post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, we now know much more about…
May 2015 issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi hits the virtual news-stands
The Foundation have just published the latest issue of The MagPi, the official magazine. On the front cover this month, it highlights articles on: A super-test of the main desktop-type operating systems available for the Pi. An article on SSHing…
Raspberry Pi Foundation welcomes new CEO
A couple of months ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation were advertising for a new CEO to replace Lance Howarth. Well, they have now found him in the shape of Philip Colligan. Philip, who comes from Nesta will start in July and oversee…
AstroPi primary school winners announced
Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Raspberry Pi Picademy goes South West
In the past few months, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put a lot effort into making their free CPD course for teachers, known as Picademy, portable so that they can take it on the road. Their next two-day event will…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton over at Linux Voice
Here’s a very interesting interview with Eben in which he discusses the development of the Raspberry Pi 2. It’s from Issue 14 of Linux Voice, which is relatively recent, so it’s definitely worth reading. There’s plenty of other stuff in there,…