1 millionth page view competition

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To celebrate hitting 1 million page views, I am running a prize draw. The first three names ‘out of the hat’ will win a CamJam EduKit (pictured below). If you’ve already got one, enter anyway and give it away to another Pi user who you think would benefit from the kit!

To enter, all you need to do is fill in this questionnaire. It should take you all of 5 minutes to fill it in and I won’t pass the information on to anyone else – it’s just for my interest as I’d love to know more about the people who read my blog. You also get the opportunity to shape the future of the blog by providing answers to some important questions!

The questionnaire will be open for the next week (until the morning of 19th July, UK time). At the end of that time, I’ll use a script to randomly pick three people from the entrants and those three will win the prize. The competition is open to everyone everywhere, providing they are on this planet! Only one entry per person, please!

Best of luck and thank you to everyone who has made this blog successful!

 

#RaspberryPi Pod hits one million page views!

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In a remarkable stroke of luck, I was able to see the moment when my blog tipped onto the 1,000,000th page view mark this morning at about 6.45am. I should add, very quickly, that I didn’t wait up all night for the moment 😉

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The next post will be all about a competition to celebrate this!

Use BOINC on the #RaspberryPi for a good cause

BOINC is a distributed computing architecture which takes a project, like interpreting data from the Large Hadron Collider, and allows you to contribute to it. You can put the resources of the Raspberry Pi towards these projects by running a BOINC client. Rob Zwetsloot of Linux User has written up a tutorial that will guide you through installing the necessary software. Read it here.

Joytone (#RaspberryPi musical instrument) inventors get interviewed

Dave Sharples and David Glanzman from the University of Pennsylvania have developed the Joytone – a musical instrument which uses a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino, together with 57 thumb sticks. It’s an amazing project which I’ve covered before. Now Russell Barnes has conducted an interview with the pair and published it on his latest podcast. Again, if you haven’t been following the Raspi.today podcasts, you should definitely head on over there!