Big news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation this morning! On 28th February & 1st March, there will be a massive 3rd Birthday event taking place at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Myself and Tim Richardson, who run the Cambridge Raspberry Jam, are…
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More on the Raspberry Pi desktop update/upgrade
Simon Long is the user interface guru at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and is the one responsible for the desktop updates featured in the new Raspbian. He’s written about some of the process he went through to improve the desktop…
New desktop for the Raspberry Pi released
Slightly under the radar, the Raspberry Pi Foundation have released a new, slicker and more user friendly version of the standard Raspbian desktop. You can get the new desktop by downloading a new image for your Pi or by typing…
Control a telescope with Mathematica on the Raspberry Pi
Tom Sherlock from Wolfram Research has written an extensive guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog about his work which uses a Pi camera module to take astronomical photographs while the Pi itself controls the position of the telescope…
Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation have posted a lovely Christmas Shopping Guide over on their blog. They cover Raspberry Pi kits, books, add-on boards and electronics kits. There’s even a great mention of the CamJam EduKits 🙂 Take a look at the guide…
Draw a snowflake with code on the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a lovely tutorial using the Python Turtle library to draw snowflakes. It’s a great example of recursive programming and will certainly while away a couple of hours with the kids on a cold weekend…
The Raspberry Pi is heading to the International Space Station
A partnership between the Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK Space, the European Space Agency and British astronaut Tim Peake is sending two Raspberry Pis into orbit! This exciting development, called “Astro Pi”, gets even more thrilling: school children will be given…
Spooky, interactive Raspberry Pi radio play at Bodiam Castle
The National Trust’s Bodiam Castle and creative agency Splash and Ripple have collaborated on a new interactive experience. The experience, which takes the form of an interactive murder mystery, uses devices called ‘Echo Horns’ carried by the visitors to tell…
Raspberry Pi Foundation seeks help at Bett 2015
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted on their blog about The Bett Show. They are looking for help to populate their stall with experts and educators. Here’s who they are looking for: We are looking for members of our…
Northern Ireland Raspberry Jams
In this brilliant guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, Andrew Mulholland has described the activities occurring at the Jams he runs and shared some lovely quotes from his attendees. Read the post here.