The Foundation have just published the latest issue of The MagPi, the official magazine. On the front cover this month, it highlights articles on: A super-test of the main desktop-type operating systems available for the Pi. An article on SSHing…
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Vote for Raspberry Pi business FUZE to get them life-changing funding
Aylesbury-based FUZE Technologies is currently seeking £250,000 funding to take their business to the next level. They have applied to a competition run by Richard Branson called ‘Pitch to Rich’ in which companies ask the public to vote for them in order…
Great write-up of Picademy
A group of educators had a great time at Picademy just recently. Elani McDonald has done a lovely write-up of her experiences over on her blog. Read it here.
Sinclair Spectrums join together with Raspberry Pi to solve 33-year old programming problem
When the ZX Spectrum was launched in 1982, chapter 19 contained a programming problem: use the BEEP command to play Mahler’s first symphony funeral march. Well, some programmers from Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science, led by Matt Westcott, have…
Windows 10 IoT preview for Raspberry Pi 2 released
When the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched, there was much hoo-hah about it being able to run Windows 10, and that it would be free. After much speculation, discussion, deliberation and outright mis-information, we eventually found out that the Pi…
Beginnings of a greenhouse monitor project using a Raspberry Pi
Romilly Cocking and his wife own an allotment about half a kilometre from where they live. Romilly wanted to set up a wireless monitor between the greenhouse on the allotment and their home. To do this, he’s experimenting with a…
Raspberry Pi Foundation welcomes new CEO
A couple of months ago, the Raspberry Pi Foundation were advertising for a new CEO to replace Lance Howarth. Well, they have now found him in the shape of Philip Colligan. Philip, who comes from Nesta will start in July and oversee…
Monitor pot-holes with a Raspberry Pi
George Mallingbury has taken a GPS serial device and an XLoBorg board (from PiBorg – it’s got an accelerometer on it) and attached them to his Pi. He’s then used some Python and SQL commands to record the jolts, jiggles…
AstroPi primary school winners announced
Exciting news from the UK Space Agency and Raspberry Pi. The primary school winners of the Astro Pi competition have been announced. They are: Cumnor House Girl’s School in Croydon, near London (idea by Hannah Belshaw) – Minecraft will be used…
Raspberry Pi Picademy goes South West
In the past few months, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has put a lot effort into making their free CPD course for teachers, known as Picademy, portable so that they can take it on the road. Their next two-day event will…