At The Big Bang Fair in Birmingham today, GCHQ unveiled what they’ve called the largest Raspberry Pi cluster ever. Nicknamed the OctaPi, the cluster sports 66 Raspberry Pis all networked together to form one supercomputer. You can read more over at Information Age.
I don’t think it’s the largest one – there was a 120-node cluster over at Adafruit late last year.
Jonathan has written an Instructable tutorial to create a portable Raspberry Pi. It uses one of the popular car reversing screens and a 3D printed case. Read it here.
Blake wanted to track his investments from the command line. He’s compiled a package called ‘Go’ that uses the Yahoo YQL API to pull stock data from the internet. He has then written a tutorial to show you how to do all this. Read all about it here.
CcHub Nigeria will be launching a secondary school after-schools club known as “Geeks Club” on 11th March. 150 students selected from Lagos state will take part in the club which will use the Raspberry Pi to teach Scratch, HTML/CSS and Python. The club will also focus on “soft skills” including communication and team work. They are working together with Google and the Raspberry Pi Foundation to launch the club which is located in Yaba.
Children’s technology show CBBC Technobabble went to Pi Towers recently. Reporter Frankie Vu interviewed the Foundation’s Carrie Anne Philbin in which she introduced the Pi and lots of cool stuff you can do with it, like build a weather station or a robot. Rather chuffed to say Pi Wars even got a mention and a quick clip! Check out the Foundation’s blog post here or go here to see the programme (skip to about 4:10).
The leader of the Purbeck STEM club took an Intel QX3 microscope toy and retro fitted it with a Raspberry Pi camera module. This required removing the lens from the module and then attaching it to the eye-piece of the QX3. Full instructions on how they did it are available here. It’s a nice use of a piece of equipment that was stored in a cupboard gathering dust.
