Dave Honess of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written an excellent (and lengthy) update to the AstroPi project. AstroPi, for those of you who don’t already know, is aiming to send two Raspberry Pis up into orbit with astronaut Tim…
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Cambridge 105 interview with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi
Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi has been interviewed by the guys over at Cambridge 105. It has some general stuff about the Pi and also some nice geeky technical detail! Listen to it here. Nice listen for a Sunday afternoon 🙂
Sonic Pi competition finalists announced
Late last year, a competition was launched to celebrate the release of Sonic Pi v2 on the Raspberry Pi. School children aged between 7-16 were invited to create musical compositions using the software. Dr Sam Aaron, who created Sonic Pi,…
Raspberry Pi Foundation’s weather station – schools apply now!
Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
Watch the Raspberry Pi 2 launch press conference
Element14 has posted a recording of Monday’s press conference on YouTube. It’s well worth a watch, if only to see how excited Eben Upton clearly is about the “New Toy”! It answers a lot of the questions about the board that you…
Jobs boost for Sony in Pencoed after launch of Raspberry Pi 2
According to Wales Online, the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales, is due to have a boost of around 30 new jobs due to the increase in production caused by the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Sony has confirmed that they…
Raspberry Pi 2 – see it in action!
The world is all a-twitter (and, indeed, many people have Tweeted) about the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2 today. I was lucky enough to get hold of a Pi 2 a few weeks ago to put it through its…
Raspberry Pi 2 – news round-up
Just doing a quick update at lunchtime on this fantastic launch day. As you should all know by now, the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched at 9am today by Eben Upton at a press conference at The Shard in London. I…
Raspberry Pi 2 – 6x faster, quad-core and twice the memory – launched today!
In a shock announcement, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched the Raspberry Pi 2 at a press event at The Shard in London. Here’s a quick introductory video I made. If you’d prefer to read about it rather than watch,…
Raspberry Pi learning resources get a make-over!
The team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been hard at work giving their learning resources a revamp. A new template has been designed and all the artwork is in the process of being converted to a much more child-friendly…