Trystan Jones at www.crennsmind.com did a presentation on connecting electronics to the GPIO and has released both the presentation and associated code files to the public domain over at GitHub. crenn/RPi-Connecting_Electronics · GitHub. The presentation is a very good, succinct,…
Category: Education
OCR releases PDF resources for the #RaspberryPi, ICT and Computing / @Raspberry_Pi
OCR have released their PDF teaching resources for the Raspberry Pi. These are well-produced, high-quality documents that they should be proud of producing. Whether you’re in a classroom environment or not, I recommend taking a look at them. Beware, the…
OCR to publish Tutorials with Google’s free #RaspberryPi initiative
Edited from this article on the OCR website. OCR has joined with Google in their initiative to hand out thousands of free Raspberry Pi computers to schools across the country. To help teachers and students get started with the Pi and…
New Year, New Project – opinions please!
This year, I want to launch a new website for the Raspberry Pi. I currently have two ideas, but really only time enough to do one of them. So, opinions please! This is just the outline of the two ideas…
Girls have fun with Pi – taking Raspberry Pi to the classroom [reblog]
Last week saw the Raspberry Pi engaging young people with computing at an event at Fairfield High School for Girls in Tameside. It’s great to see how well the Pi goes down with young people, the folks it was designed…
Jonathan Furness: Raspberry Pi in Primary Education
Interesting presentation on getting the Raspberry Pi into use in UK primary education. Jonathan Furness: Raspberry Pi – YouTube.
VGA output on the Pi…
When it comes to getting Raspberry Pis into schools, I believe that the biggest hurdle is what monitors (displays/screens) the school has available. Perhaps something like this could be used? It’s a circuit board that outputs VGA, but I’m not…