Now displayed in a gold-plated case at Raspberry Pi Headquarters in Cambridge, the 1 millionth UK-manufactured Raspberry Pi has now been produced by the Sony factory in Pencoed, Wales. The plant recently won a slew of awards at the Best Factory Awards. Production of the Pi started to make the move to Wales in September 2012 and there are now over 1.75 million Pis in existence! This story is covered by the Foundation on their website.
Alan O’Donohoe has posted up a podcast from last night’s (7 October 2013) Raspberry Jam in Preston. Plenty of interviews and a real ‘being there’ feel.
Sheffield-based Matthew Watson has been building a quadcopter with an onboard Raspberry Pi. He’s now written his dissertation regarding the project and has published it online. Very interesting to read and gives a lot of technical information on the challenges he faced.
Alex has been having fun with Carrie-Anne Philbin’s Sonic Pi tutorials and has recreated the classic Flight of the Bumblebee using his Pi.
Trevor Appleton has written an extensive post (and I mean extensive) about this programming problem. Very well worth reading if you’re a newcomer to Python, Pygame and Tkinter (for creating GUIs).
Matt Hawkins’ great little expansion board the BerryClip is controllable via Scratch. Graham Taylor from the “Raspberry Pi School” has written a tutorial about this and posted it on his blog.
