The Foundation has just announced a new programme of Picademy training at a centre in Leeds. Picademy@Google will take place on the dates shown below at a pop-up space known as a “Digital Garage”: 21st – 22nd May 2015 8th –…
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Head of Curriculum Development post advertised at Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is looking for a new member of staff with experience in education: Head of Curriculum Development. Here’s what they say about the post: The Raspberry Pi Head of Curriculum Development is a full-time position, reporting to…
The Raspberry Model C
This was a fun April-Fools joke we did for 2015. The full text of the post is archived here. We hope everyone enjoyed the joke and that great fun was had finding all the ‘Easter Eggs’ on the photo.
Solar eclipse captured by multiple Raspberry Pis
The Pi really came into it’s own as a piece of scientific equipment last Friday during the solar eclipse. Multiple people set up webcams to capture the event, perhaps the best one was at the National STEM Centre in York… which…
Raspberry Pi education CPD Picademy goes up North
Picademy, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s continuing professional development course for teachers, is going to York. The National STEM Centre is hosting the event which is taking place on the 26th and 27th May. If you are a teacher and you want to…
Raspberry Pi-powered Geeks Club in Nigeria
CcHub Nigeria will be launching a secondary school after-schools club known as “Geeks Club” on 11th March. 150 students selected from Lagos state will take part in the club which will use the Raspberry Pi to teach Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python.…
Raspberry Pi on CBBC Technobabble
Children’s technology show CBBC Technobabble went to Pi Towers recently. Reporter Frankie Vu interviewed the Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin in which she introduced the Pi and lots of cool stuff you can do with it, like build a weather station or…
RasPi.TV speaks to founding trustee Pete Lomas
Pete Lomas designed the original Raspberry Pi model B and A circuit boards and is a lovely chap. He gave a great talk at the Big Birthday Weekend and Alex Eames was lucky enough to get to speak to him…
The story of the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend
A little belated, but I’ve been so busy this week! Some of the photos were taken from this post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site – I think Ben Nuttall took them! The Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend seems to…
Tech specs for the Raspberry Pi Astro Pi HAT released
Dave Honess has posted the technical specs of the Astro Pi HAT which is due to go up to the International Space Station. The Astro Pi project, which invites schools to suggest experiments to be conducted in orbit, will send two Raspberry…