Jenny from CBBC’s Newsround has been talking to Sam Aaron and some of the kids at a Sonic Pi Live & Coding event. You can watch the piece on the CBBC website.
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Time Machine backups to the Raspberry Pi
Phil, over at the Kingdom of Philtopia, has written a tutorial that shows you how to use Samba on the Pi to act as a backup storage device for Apple’s popular Time Machine software. Read it here.
Raspberry Pi Model A+ case options
Photo credit: Alex Eames, RasPi.TV Alex Eames has done a round-up video of the case options available to you if you own a Raspberry Model A+. It’s quite a short video but it does showcase both the cases you can…
Hosting company runs Raspberry Pi workshops
Hosting company UKFast recently ran workshops for The Dean Trust Ashton-On-Mersey School in which the kids learned home automation concepts and used Minecraft Pi Edition to learn programming. You can hear a bit more about it from the people involved below:
Parkinson’s Disease experience uses Raspberry Pi
Liam Jarvis, of the University of London at Royal Holloway, and his team from the Analogue Theatre Company have created an experiential art installation called Transports. Here’s what New Scientist has to say about this incredible project: It aims to simulate…
Northern Ireland Raspberry Jams
In this brilliant guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, Andrew Mulholland has described the activities occurring at the Jams he runs and shared some lovely quotes from his attendees. Read the post here.
Tiny accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope board for the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has just launched a Kickstarter for the BerryIMU which is an I2C sensor board which contains an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope. Now, obviously you can get those sensors separately but rarely have I seen a package this small…
Raspberry Pi transceiver adapter shown at Chelmsford
Peter Onion recently attended the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society Skills Night and showed off his Raspberry Pi Panadapter. I’ve seen it in person at Potton Pi and Pints and I have to say it’s brilliant. You set the equipment up…
Lumsing 10400mAh portable power bank review
There are many power banks out there. Some have more power in them than others, some look better than others and some perform better than others. So, it was with great trepidation that I agreed to review the Lumsing 10400mAh…
A typical profile for Raspberry Pi users?
Internet-based market research firm YouGov has conducted a poll of 126 Raspberry Pi users and used their responses to generate a ‘profile’ of the typical user. At 126, it’s not very scientific… although admittedly it is quite accurate if you’re…