The British Computer Society and Royal Society of Edinburgh have developed a series of video tutorials for the Scratch programming language. Well worth looking at if you’re just starting out or want to learn more (there are intermediate videos as…
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#RaspberryPi and camera module together to make a security camera
Christoph Buenger has written an extensive tutorial on creating a surveillance camera using the Pi and the camera module and Motion, the motion-detection software that gave people such difficulties. He’s done the sensible thing and linked out to the Foundation…
How do you make a #RaspberryPi?
The BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones went to the Sony Pencoed Factory to see them making the Pi and brought back a fantastic video showing the parts of the process. The coolest bit has to be where all the components are placed…
Sam Aaron presents Sonic Pi on the #RaspberryPi
Here’s Sam Aaron talking at CPEU3 (at the O2 Arena) about his music programming environment Sonic Pi. He’s a great presenter and it’s very worthwhile listening to how this can be used in the classroom.
A look inside Pimoroni, #RaspberryPi accessory manufacturers
Matt Cowan visited the Pimoroni offices and the Raspberry Pi Foundation HQ and videoed some footage of Paul Beech, founder of Pimoroni, and a bunch of people from the Foundation. An interesting look behind the scenes at this great little…
Teaching computer program and coding skills with the #RaspberryPi
In advance of changes to the UK education curriculum, BBC Daily Politics has interviewed a small panel, including the Foundation’s Clive Beale, about the future of kids and programming. It’s a good watch, especially for parents and teachers.
Looping video automatically with the #RaspberryPi
Both Steve Hickson and Tim Schwartz have worked on SD card images to automatically play videos on a loop using omxplayer. Take a look at Steve’s blog post and also Tim’s blog post.
Self-balancing #RaspberryPi robot uses camera module and openCV to do object tracking and following
Fantastic video (though sadly no guide to recreating) from YouTube user 74Samy. He used Pierre’s tutorials about using OpenCV and the Pi camera. The robot uses the following parts: Carbon fiber chassis 2000 mAh 11.1V LiPo battery PIC24 microcontroller Murata…
Live stream of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam #RaspberryPi @Raspberry_Pi
We’ll be live streaming the Cambridge Raspberry Jam today! This is a bit of an experiment and may not work, so please bear with us! Here’s the link to the stream: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/ If you’re viewing on a mobile device, use…
Eben Upton giving his #RaspberryPi keynote at LinuxCon
I watched this live and it shows again how great Eben is at presenting about the Pi. The first 9 minutes are backstory and introduction and then there’s more detail of various things after that. Well worth a watch.