All about the calendar Arriving just in time for Christmas, The Pi Hut’s Maker Advent Calendar contains all sorts of maker-y goodness to enhance the Festive season. The Calendar comes as a large box with a cardboard wrapper and will…
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Christmas Shopping Guide 2020 for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit fans
It’s around this time of year that I take a look at lots of Raspberry Pi stores and pick out a few things for the Pi-lover in your life. This year, of course, Raspberry Pi Pod has broadened out and…
Fun Christmas-themed Kickstarter launched for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit – get a little SnowPi joy in your life
Ryan Walmsley has just launched a Kickstarter for the SnowPi: a lovely little Christmas-themed add-on for the Raspberry Pi and an adapter to make it work with the micro:bit. The pre-assembled board is in the shape of a Snowman and…
Christmas 2019 gifts round-up for Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and more!
Hi everyone. I thought it might be nice to put out a blog post with some great gift ideas for the Raspberry Pi/electronics/robotics/micro:bit person in your life who might like to have a little something to open at Christmas 🙂…
Play with this set of Raspberry Pi-controlled Christmas decorations over the Internet
German electrical engineering student Tobias Lauxtermann has taken a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino MEGA and several other boards and bits and pieces and created a set of Christmas decorations that are controllable over the Internet. The Pi runs a Node.JS…
Create a NodeRED-controlled, Raspberry Pi-powered Neopixel decoration for your Christmas Tree
The inimitable Mr Les Pounder has written up a brilliant project in which he utilises a string of Neopixel-like lights to give his Christmas Tree some blinky cheer. Soldered up on a ProtoZero board, the circuit requires a few bits…
Christmas 2017 Raspberry Pi Giveaway
Who doesn’t love a free Christmas giveaway? Not many people, I’m going to assume as this is normally very popular with my readers! So, I am again running a Christmas giveaway this year. Enter your details on this page to…
Building a Twitter-enabled Raspberry Pi-powered snow globe
Every year, Spencer Organ tries to make something Christmassy to make his house more festive, and to show off at various events he attends. This year, he 3D-printed a plastic house and placed it inside a snow globe bell jar.…
New Christmas-themed resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Raspberry Pi’s Laura Sach has just announced that there are some new Christmas-themed resources available to get you into the festive spirit. I know, I know, it’s still November, but anyway! The first project is in Scratch and shows you how to…
Potton Mince Pi and Pints – a Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 9th December
We’re holding a Christmas-themed Raspberry Jam in Potton, on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border, on 9th December and we’d love to see you there. A family-friendly event, that happens to be held upstairs at a pub, Potton Pi & Pints is a chance to talk about, use and…