Linux Voice have scored a great interview with Eben Upton about the recently launched A+. The new board, which is unbearably cute and almost square, is ideal for robotics and embedded projects. One of the interesting points in the interview is…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation weather station project enters field-test phase
According to the latest Education newsletter, a weather station project run by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and funded by Oracle, is entering it’s prototype testing phase. The weather station is primarily a HAT add-on board with a few peripherals developed by Dave Honess. A…
More Raspberry Pi Model A+ coverage
Comparison photo from Alex Eames of RasPi.TV I like days like this where there’s a big news story. Here are some more articles about the A+ launch, some of which have some… interesting… comments on. There’s no more new information about the…
Raspberry Pi Model A+ launched!
Photo credit: Alex Eames from RasPi.TV The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the launch of the Raspberry Pi Model A+. See their blog post here. First of all, it’s even cheaper – they’ve gone for a $20 price mark, so…
South African computer lab powered by Raspberry Pis goes live
Back in July, the Raspberry Pi Foundation covered a crowdfunding project to create a solar-powered computer lab in South Africa. The crowdfunding was a success and the lab is now up-and-running. At the heart of the lab is a classroom set…
Stereo depth perception with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has posted a lovely explanation of a project carried out by Argon Design. They were given a Compute Module and development board and hooked up two camera modules to it. They then wrote an algorithm to…
TechCrunch Interview with Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi
TechCrunch’s John Biggs interviewed the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt in London. During the interview, Eben shows off the new 7-inch wide VGA capacitive touch panel DSI display and discusses other topics such as the…
RACHEL-Pi – the offline Raspberry Pi bringing education to far-flung locations
RACHEL-Pi is a great project that is being used in remote locations to distribute educational materials. Here’s what Liz Upton has to say about it on the Foundation’s blog: RACHEL is an offline server, run on a Raspberry Pi, full…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO Board CAD files released
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in: The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence…
New Raspberry Jam area on the Foundation’s website!
Very, very excited right now! I spent three days at the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently, working on the Raspberry Jam section of their website. It’s now been launched (see their blog post)! Ben Nuttall as done a great job putting…