Events, Raspberry Jams, Raspberry Pi Foundation

New Raspberry Jam area on the Foundation’s website!

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JamSite

Very, very excited right now!
I spent three days at the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently, working on the Raspberry Jam section of their website. It’s now been launched (see their blog post)!
Ben Nuttall as done a great job putting the whole thing together and has developed a system where you can submit your own Pi-related event and get it published on both a map and a calendar. As well as the map and calendar, we also wrote a guide on how to run a Jam (with a great deal of help from Alan O’Donohoe’s Jamual!).

Really, really happy that it’s got launched – it’s a great resource for anyone who wants to go to a Jam and/or wants to know how a Jam works.

Now… what’s going on this month, and what can I get to… 🙂

Accessories, Crowdfunding, GPIO boards, Shopping

PiTop launches IndieGoGo campaign – Raspberry Pi laptop

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PiTop is a laptop that you build yourself and contains, within it’s plastic case, a Raspberry Pi model B+. They’ve just launched their crowdfunding campaign over on IndieGoGo and they’re already going great guns with over 50% of their total raised in a little over 2 days. The complete kit, for Earlybirds, currently costs $249 plus shipping (which is very expensive at $35 for UK/Europe). It looks like a nice product, although at that price one has to consider value-for-money before backing it. I’d like to get my hands on one to try it out and give a considered review.

They’ve also launched three HATs: one that allows you to use LCD panels with the Pi, one that acts as a robot control board and one that is all about home automation. At $75, they are over-priced, but they do look good on the surface, so maybe it’s worth it…

You can see the IndieGoGo campaign here.

Interview, Podcast, Raspberry Pi Foundation

Interview with Lance Howarth about the Raspberry Pi Education Fund

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Russell Barnes, over at RasPi.Today, has interviewed Lance Howarth, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In it, he speaks about the £1 million education fund that the Foundation has set-up to aid in the education of 5-18 year olds. Russell also catches up with Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) about his ProtoCam Kickstarter campaign. You can listen to the podcast here.

Accessories, Reviews, Video

HDMIPi review by Raspberry Pi IV Beginners

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Matt Manning has done his usual sterling job producing a video that reviews the HDMIPi screen. The screen, which was developed jointly between Alex Eames of RasPi.TV and Cyntech, is an HD screen that comes with an acrylic case produced by Pimoroni. The review video is shown below and you can leave Matt a comment on the YouTube page:

My mini-review

I’ve got one of these screens myself and can confirm and agree with Matt’s opinion – it’s a great piece of kit that you should definitely get hold of if you want a portable, high definition screen. The ability to build a Pi into it as well as use it for an additional input make it incredibly flexible. The case keeps everything protected (although it’s quite a job to put together without trapping any dust inside it – great assembly video, though!) and the quality of the screen is exceptional. You can pre-order one here from £75. I picked up a cheap, foldable tablet stand for the screen on eBay.