This month’s Linux User and Developer Magazine (issue 147) is a robotics special and, very flatteringly, they’ve based it all on the challenges from Pi Wars! It’s an excellent series of articles from the magazine that has proved itself to…
Category: Competitions
The Raspberry Pi is heading to the International Space Station
A partnership between the Raspberry Pi Foundation, UK Space, the European Space Agency and British astronaut Tim Peake is sending two Raspberry Pis into orbit! This exciting development, called “Astro Pi”, gets even more thrilling: school children will be given…
Winners announced for New Zealand Raspberry Pi competition
Orion Health, an eHealth company in New Zealand, has announced the winners of their Codework competition. Codeworx challenges secondary school students to create a solution, using a Raspberry Pi, to “a real world problem” or that “could be useful in…
Raspberry Pi Challenge at University of York
At the Department of Computer Science in the University of York, all new undergraduates are given a Raspberry Pi and challenged to do something with it within a month. Here’s a video that explains the idea – it features the Foundation’s…
Raspberry Pi enthusiast Andrew Mulholland wins TalkTalk prizes
On Tuesday, young Pi enthusiast and teacher-of-code Andrew Mulholland travelled to London to take part in the awards ceremony for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes 2014 in the House of Commons. As well as receiving the Next Generation prize, Andrew also walked…
Weather station controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Year 12 students Liam and Nico from Howick College, New Zealand, have created a Raspberry Pi-controlled weather station.The Weather Station can log readings from 1 minute upwards. It logs temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and wind speed.The logged file and the…
Pi Wars tickets still available
Tickets for the Pi Wars robotics competition are now available. Competitor tickets are currently sold out. However, we hope to increase this number so please do join the waiting list. Competitor tickets are £5 when available. Tickets for spectators are also available, at…
Sonic Pi v2 competition launched
The Foundation announced on Friday the launch of a competition for schools where they use Sonic Pi v2 to create original pieces of space-themed music. The deadline for entries is 13th October and the finalists will take part in the final…
Founder of Raspberry Jams nominated for Digital Award – vote now!
Alan O’Donohoe, who started the Raspberry Jam phenomenon, and is just a generally good man and nice chap has been nominated for the Volunteer Digital Hero category of the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards. I can’t say enough good stuff about Alan. Without…
PA Consulting Group launches 3rd annual Raspberry Pi competition
PA Consulting has launched their 3rd annual competition for Raspberry Pi projects. (You can see one of the winning entries from this year’s competition above). This time, the challenge is to “revolutionise people’s health and wellbeing” using a Pi and…