Dave Honess of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has written an excellent (and lengthy) update to the AstroPi project. AstroPi, for those of you who don’t already know, is aiming to send two Raspberry Pis up into orbit with astronaut Tim Peake. The Pis will be accompanied by several SD cards which carry experiments set-up by school teams to be carried out using a custom-designed HAT add-on board. You can read all about it, and get your school involved, by reading Dave’s blog post here.

Take a look at this FANTASTIC video from Salad House Animation which, together with the voice of Tim Peake himself, explains everything: