For the next few days, myself and Tim Richardson will be otherwise engaged with the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend in Cambridge. Please accept my apologies for the lack of blog posts this weekend – I just won’t have any…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation announces Creative Technologists initiative
Rachel Rayns and Ben Nuttall are heading up a new initiative – Creative Technologists. Here’s what they have to say about it on the blog: The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists is a mentoring programme for creative people interested in technology aged…
Raspberry Pi education team gains CAS Master Teacher
James Robinson has joined the Raspberry Pi education team and is tasked with writing more resources for their website as well as contributing to their outreach and Picademy programmes. James is a CAS (Computing at School) Master Teacher and Hub Leader and brings…
Piana – the Raspberry Pi synthesizer
Phil Atkin has been experimenting with bringing synthesizer software to the Raspberry Pi. Normally, this kind of equipment can cost £1000s but he is proving that the $35 Raspberry Pi is more than up to the job. Hackaday has just…
Upgraded garden drip system with OpenSprinkler and Raspberry Pi
Cyrus Farivar has replaced the dial controller on his garden ‘drip irrigation system’ with a Raspberry Pi and OpenSprinkler GPIO board. He’s written a full account of how to do the integration, and the results, on the ArsTechnica blog. Read it…
Raspberry Pi family photo gets an update
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV previously broke the internet when he posted his Raspberry Pi family tree photo. Well, now he’s at it again with an updated photo that includes the new Raspberry Pi 2 model B. Click here to see…
Review of the GrovePi+ starter kit for Raspberry Pi
SmittyTone has taken a look at Dexter Industries’ $90 GrovePi+ starter kit. This is an easy way to get into reading sensors on the Pi, possibly too easy as Smitty points out. Read the review here.
Minimal Raspbian distribution for Raspberry Pi updated for Pi 2
Minibian, which is a minimal Linux distribution for the Pi that fits on a 512MB SD card, has been updated for the Pi 2. This is the 4th release of the operating system and is sure to be a hit…
Load custom maps into Raspberry Pi version of Minecraft
Simon Johnson has written a brief tutorial on how to import a custom map into Minecraft: Pi Edition. It’s pretty straightforward and you’ll soon have things like night-time and animals. This doesn’t turn it into ‘survival mode’ but it does mean…
Pi Evangelist gives his Raspberry Pi birthday greeting
Spencer Organ has done a lovely blog post and accompanying video about his experiences during the last 3 years of Raspberry Pi. Actually quite touching the way he’s put together his highlights 🙂 Have a read and a watch here.