From Lorraine Underwood, care of McGraw Hill Publishing, comes this project book which promises to “engage kids with coding and making”. It includes 20 projects using a Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and/or the Circuit Playground Express – making it the first…
Hi everyone. I’ve just given a talk on getting into robotics at the Preston Raspberry Jam and I promised I would publish the notes and slides. They’re both PDFs and should, if I’ve done it right (!), include plenty of…
A new camera module is released today with a 12.3-megapixel lens. The camera, which retails for $50 (yes, yes, dollars?! etc etc – it’s where the parts come from that determines the price, same as the Pi) comes with support…
I was sent a review copy of this book by No Starch, but I can say what I like š The author According to the blurb in the first couple of pages, Dan Aldred is a Computer Science teacher, freelance…
Sometimes, a book comes along that exceeds your expectations. When I saw that Matt Timmons Brown (“The Raspberry Pi Guy”) had teamed up with No Starch Press and that he had a very well-known and respected (though he’d never admit…
You can grab some real bargains with the latest Packt/Humble Bundle team up. The books, relating to Internet of Things and Robotics, are a terrific selection from the independent publisher, Packt, and the purchase amounts go from $1 to $15,…
The latest Humble Bundle book deal (just a sample of which is shown above) contains several books from Make including “Make: A Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot” by Wolfram DonatĀ and various other electronics and programming volumes. Well worth a look if you…
Dan Aldred runs a Raspberry Pi club and asked the kids what they wanted to create. They replied that they wanted to make a book that talks to you, or ratherĀ demands that you read it. First of all, they got…
Tim’s just alerted me to the latest Humble Bundle book deals, and they areĀ great bundles to grab! They’re all Wiley books, so the quality is excellent. For $1, you can get: Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects Exploring Arduino Learning…
Don Watkins over at OpenSource.comĀ has written a software tutorial in which he installs the Calibre e-book management system onto a Raspberry Pi and then configures it to act as an e-book server. Take a look here.
