Linux User and Developer has interviewed maker Dan Aldred about his PiGlove project. It’s a glove that has buttons in the fingertips that send commands to an attached Raspberry Pi. We were lucky enough to have Dan at the Big Birthday…
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Solve the Monty Hall problem with Python
Trevor Appleton has written another of his great tutorials in which he takes you through a Python program. This time it’s to solve the “three doors” or “Monty Hall” problem. You are presented with three doors and have to try…
Cambridge News covers the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend
On Saturday we were delighted to welcome along a team from Cambridge News to the Big Birthday Weekend. We rounded up a few of the guys and gels from the Foundation for them to interview and photograph and they’ve now published…
Raspberry Pi Game Gear
Phil Herlihy has written a tutorial for Adafruit in which he takes a Sega Game Gear handheld console and fits it out with all kinds of stuff, including a LiPo battery to power it and, of course, a Raspberry Pi…
PiCamera worksheets for the Raspberry Pi
Stephen Blythe has built on work done by Carl Monk to create some worksheets for the camera module. The worksheets use the picamera Python library and are very simple and easy-to-follow. Take a look here.
Installing Snappy Ubuntu Core in Raspberry Pi 2
People were surprised when the Raspberry Pi 2 was launched that there was a new operating system on the block, in addition to the existing mainstream Raspbian offering. That new OS is Snappy Ubuntu Core. It is a (very) cut-down…
Three Years of Raspberry Pi – a video project
Following the huge success of his Two Years of Pi video, Matthew Timmons-Brown has now created Three Years of Pi – a tribute to the third birthday of the Raspberry Pi. You can view it below. Don’t forget to leave…
First there was LEGO, now see Minecraft Star Wars on the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon teamed up with David Whale at the weekend to give a talk on Minecraft to the Big Birthday Weekend crowd. For this presentation, Martin wanted to really show off the capabilities of programmable Minecraft and he has created a…
Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi relaunches
Community-driven magazine The MagPi has got a new home! Now on issue 31, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has acquired the magazine as an ongoing project and is publishing it in-house. With the change of ownership and editorial team comes a complete…
Interview with Raspberry Pi Pioneer Eben Upton
The IEEE’s Mark Peplow has conducted an interview with Eben. It’s all pretty basic stuff, but it’s always nice to hear Eben talking about how it all started, and about how the Pi is affecting education. Read the interview here. Cool…