The Heroes of the Fortune 500 recognizes 50 employees of Fortune 500 companies that use their professional skills and expertise to actively participate in their local communities and they’ve chosen Eben Upton as one of them. Here’s an excerpt from the…
Category: Raspberry Pi Foundation
Behavioural science monitoring on a #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has posted about Katherine Scott‘s work to create a humane rat behavioural monitoring station using a Raspberry Pi. Cute little critters, really. Read more here.
#RaspberryPi expands it’s education team
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the recruitment of a new member of it’s education team. Craig Richardson (aka @CraigArgh on Twitter) is an expert in Minecraft on the Pi and is an ex-teacher. Craig has led many Minecraft…
#RaspberryPi projects galore at the Bay Area Maker Faire
Alex Bradbury has just posted an account of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s time at the recent Maker Faire in San Francisco. There are loads of great Pi-related projects to read about, which you can do by going to their blog.
Eben Upton on the #RaspberryPi Compute Module
Richard Wilson at Electronics Weekly has done a nice interview with the Foundation’s Eben Upton about the new Compute Module and how they expect it to be used. Read the interview here.
#RaspberryPi Compute Module – an insider interview
Matt Manning was recently at the Raspberry Pi Foundation giving a presentation on the Pi Community to the assembled educators. While he was there he interviewed James Adams, the Foundation’s director of hardware, about the Compute Module. This is a great…
Foundation focus: Programming in Minecraft with the #RaspberryPi
This is the first in what I suspect will be a long series of posts in which I feature one of the education resources on the Raspberry Pi Foundation site. This time, I wanted to point people at the introduction to…
#RaspberryPi Compute Module announced
This must be the ultimate in well-kept secrets. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced the launch of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Aimed at commerce/industry, rather than education or hobbyists, the Compute aims to give users the Raspberry Pi…
Eben Upton talk about how new technologies are changing the world
Eben’s been over in Dublin talking at the University College. His speech, As Easy As (Raspberry) Pi: How New Technologies Are Changing Your World, can be viewed on YouTube or embedded below:
#RaspberryPi Foundation Education Fund launched
The Foundation has today announced a £1 million pot called the Raspberry Pi Foundation Education Fund. This will fund projects and initiatives for kids aged 5-18 in the 4 core STEM areas. Priority will be given for not-for-profit projects. You…