Russell Barnes, over at RasPi.Today, has interviewed Lance Howarth, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In it, he speaks about the £1 million education fund that the Foundation has set-up to aid in the education of 5-18 year olds.…
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New education newsletter from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Carrie Anne Philbin has just announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that a new newsletter has been launched that will cater for teachers and other educators. You can sign up for the newsletter here and view an archive of all…
Raspberry Pi Foundation gains new Chairman
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that Jack Lang is stepping down from the position of Chairman of the Foundation. He’ll remain on the board as Vice Chair. The position of Chair will be filled by David Cleevely who…
Raspberry Pi Model B back in production
According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the good old model B is back in production following a manufacturing backlog as a result of the launch of the B+. Good news for those of us who still need to get hold…
Raspberry Pi CPD for teachers comes to Wales – Picademy Cymru
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced that they are to hold a special Picademy in Wales on 19th and 20th November. The event, which is seeking to attract Welsh primary and secondary teachers, is to be run at the Sony…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton about technology development
Stewart Haston of mobilegeeks.com took some time to interview Eben Upton on a recent visit to Taipei. In the interview, they talk about the different environments of Shenzhen, Silicon Valley and Cambridge. It’s appallingly proof-read, but if you can fill in…
CNBC comes to Cambridge to talk about the Raspberry Pi and CamJam
On the 6th of September, we held a Raspberry Jam in Cambridge, UK. During that day, a news crew from CNBC attended and conducted a lot of interviews and shot footage of the activities taking place. On the previous day, they…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s James Adams
Matt Richardson from Make talked to James Adams (the Foundation’s Director of Hardware) at MakerCon in New York recently about the Compute Module, HATs, the B+ and how the Slice is going. The video of the interview is below.
New release of NOOBS and Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new version of Raspbian is now available, as well as a new version of NOOBS containing that new release. The following features are included in the update: New firmware with various fixes and improvements…
New physical computing video from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
In an effort to get everyone excited about physical computing using the GPIO pins on the Pi, the Foundation has just published a new video from Saladhouse in which the GPIO is explained and various projects featured. You can see the…