Teach Secondary have announced their Technology & Innovation Awards. “The brand new awards are specifically focused on technology and innovation in the classroom and recognise products and resources as well as teachers, authors and bloggers”. Amongst the winners was Carrie Anne Philbin, who was awarded Best Author for her book Adventures in Raspberry Pi. Congratulations Carrie Anne!
We previously covered Dave Hunt’s work on the PiPhone – the first mobile phone powered by a Raspberry Pi. Now, Linux User has tracked him down and Rob Zwetsloot has interviewed him. Read the interview here.
Edison is a tiny robot that runs an 8-bit Freescale processor and is currently being funded via a Kickstarter. It’s just hit the $50k stretch goal which means the software to program it will be supported on the Raspberry Pi. Looks like an interesting little robot (though not suitable for Pi Wars!) and it’s good to see projects like this tying up with the Pi. See the Kickstarter here.
Jose Cerrejon contacted me to tell me about his project, PiKISS. PiKISS is a “bunch of scripts” with a menu system designed to make life easier when setting up your Pi. It’s downloadable from GitHub and looks like a very user-friendly way of installing software and other bits and pieces your Pi needs. Take a look here.
Oakland, California-based Andrew Langley has written a tutorial based on his experience hacking the 15″ Hasbro Interactive R2D2. He’s even included a mini-projector in the build to give R2 that realistic feel. Read about it here or watch the video below.
Ever since the Raspberry Pi HATs (Hardware Attached to Top) were announced, there has been an unspoken ‘race’ to see who would get theirs out first. The Raspberry Pi Foundation are already working on their own one, although we don’t know what it is, and now both Adafruit and Dtronixs have thrown their hat into the ring (sorry, couldn’t resist).
HATs announced from Adafruit so far are:
You can follow Adafruit’s HAT-a-Day blog by visiting this page.
Also in contention for first HAT release is Newcastle-based Dtronixs. They’ve announced the following:
My money for first release is Dtronixs – they seem like a very small, agile company with a great number of existing boards for the Model B out already. They are small but this could be their ticket to big recognition. They currently sell on Tindie.
