The IEEE’s Mark Peplow has conducted an interview with Eben. It’s all pretty basic stuff, but it’s always nice to hear Eben talking about how it all started, and about how the Pi is affecting education. Read the interview here.
Cool picture too. Reminds me of the picture of Amy Mather in Wired. Apparently Ethernet cables are ‘in’ this year. 🙂
For the next few days, myself and Tim Richardson will be otherwise engaged with the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend in Cambridge. Please accept my apologies for the lack of blog posts this weekend – I just won’t have any time to update the site. I’ll be back in action again on Monday (if I can wake up!) with as much Pi news and projects as I can find. I’ll also be sharing some of my experiences and thoughts about the Big Birthday Weekend from an organiser’s perspective.
For those of you who are coming to the Big Birthday Weekend, please say Hello to myself and Tim. We’ll be wearing purple Raspberry Pi t-shirts (the ones with the logos on) and we’ll likely be carrying clipboards and wearing Marshal badges!
Can I just take this opportunity to say thanks to the Raspberry Pi Community who have been so generous offering their time to help us at the Weekend, giving talks, taking part in panels, helping in workshops, doing Show-and-Tell, taking part in the Marketplace and giving up some of their Weekend to be Marshals. Without you, we just wouldn’t have an event.
Thank you to Tim, as always. And a huuuuuge thank you and Big Hug (c) to Lisa Mather who has been organising the evening party – we couldn’t have done it without you!.
Rachel Rayns and Ben Nuttall are heading up a new initiative – Creative Technologists. Here’s what they have to say about it on the blog:
The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged 16 – 21 years old. If your passion is the creative arts, and you’re wondering how you can use technology to enhance that, this is for you.
It sounds absolutely brilliant, and could really be the way forward for reaching young people on a personal level. You can read more about it on the Foundation blog, including how to apply.
James Robinson has joined the Raspberry Pi education team and is tasked with writing more resources for their website as well as contributing to their outreach and Picademy programmes. James is a CAS (Computing at School) Master Teacher and Hub Leader and brings with him a wealth of education experience. Read more here. Welcome to the madhouse, James!
Phil Atkin has been experimenting with bringing synthesizer software to the Raspberry Pi. Normally, this kind of equipment can cost ÂŁ1000s but he is proving that the $35 Raspberry Pi is more than up to the job. Hackaday has just covered his work here and you can read more about his experiences on his blog here. If you’re lucky enough to be coming to the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend, you can see Phil in action on the Saturday!
Cyrus Farivar has replaced the dial controller on his garden ‘drip irrigation system’ with a Raspberry Pi and OpenSprinkler GPIO board. He’s written a full account of how to do the integration, and the results, on the ArsTechnica blog. Read it here.
