A 15 year old schoolboy won the Institute of Physics prize at the recent Big Bang Fair by using a Raspberry Pi to analyse sensor readings and prove part of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Pratap Singh, from The Perse School…
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Get spherical with this interactive Raspberry Pi
Cabe Atwell has posted about his latest project on the Element 14 website. It’s a hard, plastic, spherical ball inside which is mounted a Raspberry Pi, a couple of batteries, a Neopixel strip and an accelerometer. By rolling the ball,…
Make your own Raspberry Pi powered mobile phone
Tyler Spadgenske has written an Instructable that shows you how to create your own mobile phone using a Raspberry Pi A+. He 3D-prints a case for the phone and then fills that case with components including an Adafruit FONA board (which…
Head of Curriculum Development post advertised at Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is looking for a new member of staff with experience in education: Head of Curriculum Development. Here’s what they say about the post: The Raspberry Pi Head of Curriculum Development is a full-time position, reporting to…
Raspberry Pi-powered t-shirt printing from Rapanui
Fashion brand Rapanui, who power their factory by wind turbines, have set-up a Twitter account which you can tweet in order to get a t-shirt made. You simply tweet a picture to @tshirtplease and a Raspberry Pi, which has monitored the Twitter account,…
Potton Pi & Pints – 11th April 2015 – a Raspberry Jam doughnut
After the onslaught that was the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend, myself and Tim Richardson are holding a much more relaxed, much smaller, Jam in our home town of Potton, Bedfordshire on Saturday, 11th April from 2-6pm. You can book…
Raspberry Pi web server using Python/Flask
Here’s a good Instructable on getting your Pi set-up to act as a web server. It uses Python and a library called Flask in a script which creates the server on-the-fly. This is an excellent introduction to Flask which can…
Egham Raspberry Jam – 26th April
Albert Hickey is running another Jam at the Gartner HQ in Egham on 26th April from 2-5pm. This Jam will feature opportunities to try out Sonic Pi and Minecraft Pi Edition. You can read about a previous Egham Jam here.…
The Raspberry Model C
This was a fun April-Fools joke we did for 2015. The full text of the post is archived here. We hope everyone enjoyed the joke and that great fun was had finding all the ‘Easter Eggs’ on the photo.
Basic deep learning and image recognition with the Raspberry Pi
David Walz has blogged about using the DeepBeliefSDK to identify the contents of an image. DeepBelief takes an image and evaluates it with a neural network model in order make a conclusion as to what is in the image. Read more about it…