RACHEL-Pi is a great project that is being used in remote locations to distribute educational materials. Here’s what Liz Upton has to say about it on the Foundation’s blog: RACHEL is an offline server, run on a Raspberry Pi, full…
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Adventures in Minecraft – a new book for Raspberry Pi owners
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon have been busy writing a new book which uses Minecraft Pi Edition to teach Python programming. Written in the same format as Carrie Anne Philbin’s awesome book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, it covers everything from basic…
Raspberry Pi Compute Module IO Board CAD files released
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the release of the CAD files for the Compute Module IO Board. Here’s what they say about the format that they’ve been released in: The design files are the Cadence OrCAD schematic file, Cadence…
SNES gaming console using a Raspberry Pi
Reddit user Angryspec spent a few months adapting a SNES console and some control pads so that he could emulate the SNES and other gaming consoles. More details and pictures of the build are available here.
Firefox OS coming soon to the Raspberry Pi
A group of developers are currently working on porting Firefox OS to the Raspberry Pi as either downloadable software packages or a flashable image. You can already install a demo version of the OS to your Pi by following the…
Building an Amiga A1200 for $40 with Raspberry PI and UAE4All
Jon Aasenden took a disused Raspberry Pi, some battery packs and installed UAE4All to give him a portable Amiga. You can read how he did it here.
Egham Raspberry Jam write-up
WinkleInk recently ran the 5th Egham Raspberry Jam. He’s done a short write-up of the event with lots of pictures so head on over to his blog to take a look.
EduBoard – a multi-function board and OLED display for the Raspberry Pi
There have been lots of boards on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for the Pi, and here’s another one – a really fun, educational one. This one is called the EduBoard and features the following: 1 x RGB LED 1 x OLED…
Adapter for the Raspberry Pi model B+’s audio jack
One of the possible issues with the model B+ is that the composite video output has been removed, to be replaced by a composite audio jack that provides both video and stereo audio output. WinkleInk has investigated and found an…
New Raspberry Jam area on the Foundation’s website!
Very, very excited right now! I spent three days at the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently, working on the Raspberry Jam section of their website. It’s now been launched (see their blog post)! Ben Nuttall as done a great job putting…