Sony UK Technology Centre at Pencoed was named as the UK’s Best Factory at the Best Factory Awards at the beginning of this month.
Pencoed is the manufacturing home of the Raspberry Pi and in addition to the headline award, they also won the Innovation Award and the Best Electronics & Electrical Plant Award.
Congratulations!
Read Sony’s press release here
Gareth Brown from Safe Fire Direct has written an account of his project which involved taking apart a cheap smoke alarm and installing a radio link between it and a Raspberry Pi. The Pi then sends an email and text message when the alarm is activated.
Mark Williams has written a tutorial using C and WiringPi that shows you how to connect up a 16×2 LCD screen to the Pi. It’s a great from-first-principles blog post. Read it here
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has decided to give Minecraft on the Pi a go. You can follow his installation procedure here on the blog.
EFYTimes.com has brought together a list of 50 Free eBooks on the subject of Python.
In advance of changes to the UK education curriculum, BBC Daily Politics has interviewed a small panel, including the Foundation’s Clive Beale, about the future of kids and programming. It’s a good watch, especially for parents and teachers.
