Matt Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, did a week’s work experience at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and was privileged to be able to interview two of the staff: Clive Beale (head of the Education team) and Gordon Hollingworth (head…
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Virtual Cambridge Raspberry Jam – videos now up
Andy Batey from the Institute of Astronomy has just finished uploading the recorded live video from Saturday’s CamJam to YouTube. You can view all the videos on the CamRJam channel.
The Making of Raspberry Pi from cnet.com
Luke Westaway of cnet.com has done a nice piece on the development of the Raspberry Pi and it’s mission. It’s a video that features footage from Pi Towers and includes interviews with Eben Upton, Gordon Hollingworth and Carrie Anne Philbin.…
Running Neopixels from the Raspberry Pi without an Arduino
Here’s what could be a game-changer in the land of blinkies. Tony from North-West USA has taken the work of an Adafruit forum user, adapted it slightly and is now driving Neopixels natively from the Pi. It uses the Raspberry Pi’s…
Tiny wall-mounted Raspberry Pi home server
Colin Riley (aka Domipheus) has taken a Pi and a PiTFT screen and created a wall-mounted home server with touchscreen. He’s done a lot of cutting and modification of the Pi and the screen and it’s really impressive how small…
New visual programming environment for the Raspberry Pi – Wyliodrin
For those of you who don’t like to write actual text-based code, and instead prefer a visual programming environment, there are only a few options out there, most notably Scratch and NodeRED. There is a new player in the arena…
Learn how to solder with Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne’s been wanting to learn to solder for a while. She’s now learnt how to do it and has made this great video that teaches you which end of the soldering iron is which and how to make good…
Switching control with the Raspberry Pi and a Darlington Array
Here’s a good video of how to use a Darlington Array with the Pi to do switching.
Speaker from the PiHut for the Raspberry Pi over at RasPi.TV
Alex Eames got hold of a new speaker from The Pi Hut and has done a review video over on his site, RasPi.TV. Read and watch the video here. My review of the speaker will appear on my blog this weekend.…
Raspberry Pi’s Ben Nuttall’s road trip continues
Ben is currently working his way across the US stopping off at schools and hackspaces as he goes. One of his most recent stops was at St John Vianney High School. You can see him talking to a classroom of…