Founder of Make, and all-round nice chap, Dale Dougherty attended the Big Birthday Weekend last weekend and has done a lovely write-up of what he saw and heard during the event. Take a look here. Photo: Marshals give out Swag Bags after…
Category: Raspberry Pi Foundation
Cambridge News covers the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend
On Saturday we were delighted to welcome along a team from Cambridge News to the Big Birthday Weekend. We rounded up a few of the guys and gels from the Foundation for them to interview and photograph and they’ve now published…
Installing Snappy Ubuntu Core in Raspberry Pi 2
People were surprised when the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched that there was a new operating system on the block, in addition to the existing mainstream Raspbian offering. That new OS is Snappy Ubuntu Core. It is a (very) cut-down…
Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi relaunches
Community-driven magazine The MagPi has got a new home! Now on issue 31, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has acquired the magazine as an ongoing project and is publishing it in-house. With the change of ownership and editorial team comes a complete…
Interview with Raspberry Pi Pioneer Eben Upton
The IEEE’s Mark Peplow has conducted an interview with Eben. It’s all pretty basic stuff, but it’s always nice to hear Eben talking about how it all started, and about how the Pi is affecting education. Read the interview here. Cool…
Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend – the blog will be quiet!
For the next few days, myself and Tim Richardson will be otherwise engaged with the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend in Cambridge. Please accept my apologies for the lack of blog posts this weekend – I just won’t have any…
Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Creative Technologists initiative
Rachel Rayns and Ben Nuttall are heading up a new initiative – Creative Technologists. Here’s what they have to say about it on the blog: The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged…
Raspberry Pi education team gains CAS Master Teacher
James Robinson has joined the Raspberry Pi education team and is tasked with writing more resources for their website as well as contributing to their outreach and Picademy programmes. James is a CAS (Computing at School) Master Teacher and Hub Leader and brings…
Q&A with Raspberry Pi’s Upton and Hollingworth
Matt Timmons-Brown (The Raspberry Pi Guy) visited Pi Towers this week and interviewed Eben Upton and Gordon Hollingworth. He had previously reached out to the community to get a pool of questions, which was a great move on his part,…
Raspberry Pi sales pass 5 million
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that sales of our favourite credit-card sized computer have just passed 5 million. This does not include any Pis given away to educational groups by the Foundation – these are bona fide sales!