Dave Honess, part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s education team, has been working with Oracle on a fantastic project. He has developed a Raspberry Pi weather station board and peripherals that will allow schools to become part of a National…
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Camera flash causes reset of the Raspberry Pi 2
This is perhaps the ultimate in non-issues, but it’s worth being aware of all the same. Peter Onion has found a slight flaw in the Raspberry Pi 2. One of the chips onboard (not the main processor, one of the…
Nice Raspberry Pi 2 article over at ElectronicsWeekly.com
For those of you who would like to read a single article about the Raspberry Pi 2 that explains all the hardware changes and all the expected software options (such as Ubuntu and the IOT version of Windows 10) as well…
Raspberry Pi 2 outshines the B+ in this multi-threaded performance test
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has written a Python script that tests out the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi 2’s quad-core processor by carrying out sorting operations on a massive list of words. The results are astounding. The Pi 2 clearly beats…
Use a Raspberry Pi and a cheap dongle to track aeroplanes
London-based Sopwith has taken a DVB-T dongle, plugged it into his Raspberry Pi and used software packages and scripts he has written himself to create an aeroplane tracker that plots onto a map. Read how to do it by viewing…
Botswana environmental expedition uses the Raspberry Pi and open source resources
A team of National Geographic Explorers recently embarked on an expedition to the Okavango Delta in Botswana to gather environmental data using open hardware and software and the Raspberry Pi. Called the Okavango Wilderness Project, the expedition will create a…
The Raspberry Pi is heading to the International Space Station
A partnership between the Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK Space, the European Space Agency and British astronaut Tim Peake is sending two Raspberry Pis into orbit! This exciting development, called “Astro Pi”, gets even more thrilling: school children will be given…
Pushing the Raspberry Pi A+ to the limits
Over at Philtopia, Phil has been seeing what the Model A+ can do. He’s installed MAME and tried out various games and also tried (successfully) to watch full HD videos from YouTube. It’s really reassuring how far 256MB of RAM can…
Parkinson’s Disease experience uses Raspberry Pi
Liam Jarvis, of the University of London at Royal Holloway, and his team from the Analogue Theatre Company have created an experiential art installation called Transports. Here’s what New Scientist has to say about this incredible project: It aims to simulate…
A typical profile for Raspberry Pi users?
Internet-based market research firm YouGov has conducted a poll of 126 Raspberry Pi users and used their responses to generate a ‘profile’ of the typical user. At 126, it’s not very scientific… although admittedly it is quite accurate if you’re…