The new issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi is out today and features a beginners guide, an Apollo software special and a round-up of community projects. There are also several tutorials and reviews of add-on boards and books. You…
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Raspberry Pi runs a poll to find the top 20 Pi projects
My 40th birthday today, so being a bit quiet and doing real-life things (although hacking will be part of that, got to finish off the Music Box properly!). On Saturday, at Potton Pi & Pints, my wife and my good friend…
New book from Raspberry Pi teaches you simple electronics and GPIO Zero
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and The MagPi have announced the launch of another in their Essentials series of books. This one is called Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero and focuses on teaching the reader how to use simple electronic components to affect…
Astro Pi scientific results data now available
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that the scientific results of the Astro Pi space mission are now available! Head over to astro-pi.org to take a look. Head over to the Raspberry Pi blog to read more about Astro Pi.
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches SenseHAT emulator
Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual…
Skycademy 2016 starts at Raspberry Pi headquarters
The Foundation’s Dan Fisher has just blogged about Skycademy, which starts today in their Cambridge HQ. 30 educators were invited to take part and they are currently learning the ins and outs of High Altitude Ballooning. You can read more about…
Boot your Raspberry Pi through an Ethernet cable
Gordon Hollingworth has just published his second blog post on the Pi’s new booting modes. This one is all about booting over Ethernet with no SD card on the client Pi. The new functionality is documented here and there’s a…
Boot your Raspberry Pi from a USB drive (beta)
Gordon Hollingworth has just announced, over on the Raspberry Pi blog, that the Raspberry Pi 3 can be booted from USB mass storage devices. Information on how to do it, and which devices have been found (so far) to be…
Cross curriculum whole-school activity day featuring the Raspberry PI
Eastlea Community School, located in the London Borough of Newham, recently ran a whole-school activity day which featured a variety of computers and micro-controllers, including the Raspberry Pi. Clive Beale from the Raspberry Pi Foundation was invited along and you…
Young Digital Makers invited to Raspberry Pi for a day of hacking and tinkering
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that they are holding a Digital Making day for youngsters on the 23rd August (which is my birthday, but let’s ignore that for now… God knows I’m trying to). To apply, you need…