Exciting news today. The CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Philip Colligan, has announced that Code Club is going to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raspberry Pi. I believe this is great news. Both organisations have similar aims – to get children to code – and the pooling of resources and ideas is sure to benefit both sides. Read more here. If you’ve never heard of Code Club, or want to get involved, take a look at their website here: www.codeclub.org.uk
Sheffield-based maker/seller Pimoroni are looking to expand and to do it they are going the crowd-funding/investment route. They have launched a campaign on CrowdCube to raise £315,000, for which they are offering 4% of equity. If you’re interested in following their campaign, or you’d like to invest and share in the benefits take a look at CrowdCube now or read more information on the Pimoroni site. Here’s their announcement video:
Mozilla Festival is taking place at Ravensbourne College in London from 6th-8th November. As part of the Festival, there will be a Raspberry Pi ‘zone’ which will feature 17 (!) workshops including:
This is a great opportunity to get tuition from some highly-accomplished experts, even if you don’t know what a Raspberry Pi is!
Tickets are £3 for youngsters and £45 for the not-so-young. Buy tickets here.
Gus over at pimylifeup.com bought a Raspberry Pi touchscreen and has written up his thoughts in the form of a review. Read it here.
The newest issue of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, is out now. As usual, it’s stuffed with all kinds of Raspberry Pi news, reviews, articles and other things of interest. It’s available from Tesco, WHSmith and Sainsbury’s in the UK and Barnes and Noble or Microcenter in the States. As usual, it is also available for free online.
Alex Eames has now finished his series of videos about the RasPiO Duino, the great little add-on board for the Pi that gives you an ATMega chip, breakouts and a prototyping area. The last video is all about reading analog signals, such as those from a light sensor, and feeding them back to the Pi over a serial connection. So, if you want to see how this board can be used for this purpose, take a look on YouTube.
