Stuart Leithes from ITV News has done a lovely report in which he interviews Gordon Hollingworth of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Jason from Cambridge’s Centre for Computing History about bringing programming back into education and how this is being…
Category: Research
The Raspberry Pi Family – a virtual museum-in-the-making
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has collected together all the variants of Raspberry Pi he owns and done a nifty review of the differences and features of each. Take a look here. I’m amazed to say I’ve got the only one…
Raspberry Pi Model A+, B+ and A power comparison
Alex Eames has shot a video in which he measures the power consumption of the Model A+, the Model B+ and the Model A doing various tasks (idling, starting up the desktop, watching video and shooting video with the camera). It’s…
Brew your coffee the renewable way with a Raspberry Pi
A group of University of Lancaster researchers have used a Raspberry Pi to only allow a kettle to be boiled when the University’s wind turbine is producing power. Dr. Will Simm, Dr. Peter Newman, Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and Dr. Stephen…
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…
Raspberry Pi controlled syringe pump
In both science and medicine, there is a requirement for dispensing drugs and other liquids in controlled measurements, or doses. This requirement is usually satisfied by a syringe pump. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has blogged about a Raspberry Pi-powered pump…
ramanPi – Raspberry Pi controlled spectrometer
flatCat has developed an enormous project that uses a Raspberry Pi to control a spectrometer. Here’s what he says about what the machine does: Raman spectroscopy is something very cool to behold, and imagine.. The idea that shining a light on…
Reset a forgotten password on your Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins has worked out a way to reset a forgotten password on the Pi by editing a file on the boot partition of the SD card. So, all you need to do is to take the SD card, edit…
More on Raspberry Pi Model B+ HATs
James Adams, Director of Hardware at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has posted to the Foundation blog some official information about HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) boards that will be compatible with the B+. I previously covered this announcement on the…
Raspberry Pi Model B+ unboxing
Martin Meadows-Evans has done a nice video of unboxing a B+, this time from RS Components, so we get to see their packaging (which I personally don’t think is as nice as Element 14’s).