get_iplayer is a set of scripts that can be used to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Recently, Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV noticed that something was amiss and that the scripts no longer worked. Well, he has now come…
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Bloomberg covers David Pride’s 4Bot and interviews Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton
Ashlee Vance of Bloomberg recently visited the UK, more specifically Gloucester and Cambridge. In Gloucester, he visited David Pride who created the awesome 4Bot Connect 4-playing robot. Vance also interviews Eben Upton, on a punt, to get the rationale behind…
Raspberry Pi seeks videographer to join the team
Raspberry Pi in Cambridge is looking for a videographer to join the team: We’re looking for a videographer to join the creative team at Raspberry Pi in Cambridge. This role will suit someone with experience working in an environment where…
Why do kids need to learn to code? A talk by Cat Lamin at PyConUK
Cat Lamin is a former primary school teacher who now makes a living sharing her knowledge of education, particularly as it relates to computer science. She founded the Coding Evenings movement and is a regular at Raspberry Jams in the…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – September 2016 – talk videos now available
On Saturday, 17th September 2016, myself and Tim Richardson welcomed over 200 people to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge for our 13th (!) Cambridge Raspberry Jam. We are very lucky at the Institute to be able to have our talks…
Using a Raspberry Pi to control a face-tracking desk fan
The Foundation have just blogged this nice little project from Instructables user DevinL9. He’s taken a Raspberry Pi, hooked it up to a servo and then used the servo to control the position of a small fan with a small webcam mounted…
Virtual reality viewing of crime scenes becomes a possibility with the Raspberry Pi
Mehzeb Chowdhury, a PhD researcher in forensic science and criminal investigations at the UK’s Durham University has been looking into the ways juries view crime scenes. Ordinarily, they rely on a mixture of sketches and photographs. Recent ideas at making…
Videocast featuring Sonic Pi, music software for the Raspberry Pi
On the latest episode of Triangulation, host Leo Laporte interviews Sam Aaron, who wrote Sonic Pi, the computer programming language, based on Ruby, that allows you to create music through code. An interesting interview in which Sam teaches Leo how…
Hacking robot dinosaurs with a Raspberry Pi with Dr Lucy Rogers
Last weekend, geeks, tinkerers and hobbyists gathered in Guildford for EMF Camp, a 3-day technology gathering for like-minded individuals. Talks ranged greatly in their topics but this one in particular caught my eye and I was lucky enough to catch…
Taking pictures of bats at night with a Raspberry Pi
Martin Mander recently noticed that his back garden attracted bats. Inspired by this, he set about creating a camera that could see in the dark and take pictures of the bats as they came flying in. He repurposed a hand-held…