At a ceremony in London last night, the team behind the Raspberry Pi won a prestigious award: The MacRobert Award. The MacRobert Award is the UK’s longest-running and most prestigious national prize for engineering innovation. The award “recognises outstanding innovation,…
Simon Long has just posted on the Raspberry Pi website about an update to Raspbian that has just been released. The following changes have been implemented: Scratch 2.0 (offline version) pre-installed, including ability to do physical computing! Thonny IDE for Python…
There will be a Raspberry Jam at Pi Towers in Cambridge on Saturday, 1st July. The event, which runs from 11am-4pm will feature an intro session, three workshops and, probably, some Show and Tell. Ben Nuttall’s running the Jam and…
Very interesting news this morning. The Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation are to merge. CoderDojo is a global network of coding clubs for kids from 7-17 and was established in July 2011 by James Whelton and Bill Liao. There…
Issue 57 of The MagPi is with us, and what a bumper issue it is. It comes with the hardware for a Google-powered artificial intelligence/voice recogniser project, or AIY Project. Here’s the MagPi’s description of the contents: Inside the…
Raspberry Pi has announced that this week they will pass the 250k sales mark for the Raspberry Pi Zero W. Considering that it was only launched 9 weeks ago, this is astounding. They have also announced that they have opened…
Ben Nuttall, Raspberry Pi community manager, has just posted on the Raspberry Pi blog about a new set of resources for Jam organisers. The best part of it is a new Jam Guidebook which tells you everything you need to know about…
Every now and then, I review the Raspberry Pi learning resources page to find out what they’ve been working on. Today is one of those days! Getting Started with GUIs One of Laura‘s pet projects is GUI Zero, a wrapper for…
Last year, Raspberry Pi teamed up with Trinket to launch a SenseHAT emulator. This emulator, which works in your browser, has now been updated. They’ve added the ability to mimic the movement sensors on-board a real SenseHAT. They’ve also added a…
Raspberry Pi has published online an article from issue 52 of The MagPi. It’s a community profile of my friend, Alex Eames (that’s him in the cheesy picture above!), who you probably know from RasPi.TV and RasPiO. Recently, he’s launched a…
