PiTop is a laptop that you build yourself and contains, within it’s plastic case, a Raspberry Pi model B+. They’ve just launched their crowdfunding campaign over on IndieGoGo and they’re already going great guns with over 50% of their total…
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Sonic Pi – from humble beginnings to live coding on the Raspberry Pi
On 13th October, Dr Sam Aaron presented to the London Ruby Users Group about how Sonic Pi grew from a simple program producing beeps to being a live coding development environment that is installed by default on the Raspberry Pi.…
Driving in a straight line with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon is currently building a robot and he wants it to autonomously drive in a straight line. This isn’t as easy as it sounds but he’s hit on a solution – use encoder discs on his motors and count…
Interview with Lance Howarth about the Raspberry Pi Education Fund
Russell Barnes, over at RasPi.Today, has interviewed Lance Howarth, the CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In it, he speaks about the £1 million education fund that the Foundation has set-up to aid in the education of 5-18 year olds.…
HDMIPi review by Raspberry Pi IV Beginners
Matt Manning has done his usual sterling job producing a video that reviews the HDMIPi screen. The screen, which was developed jointly between Alex Eames of RasPi.TV and Cyntech, is an HD screen that comes with an acrylic case produced…
Southend on Sea Raspberry Jam – 22nd November
Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group is organising another Jam. This one is on 22nd November and will once again be held at the Tickfield Centre. It runs from 10-5pm and will feature talks, workshops and show-and-tell. The last one was very…
New education newsletter from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Carrie Anne Philbin has just announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that a new newsletter has been launched that will cater for teachers and other educators. You can sign up for the newsletter here and view an archive of all…
Use an 8×2 LCD display with your Raspberry Pi
Richard (Average Man) has written a really nice tutorial about using a small 8×2 LCD display with the Pi, using his ProtoCam prototyping board. This is a really great use of the ProtoCam (which is now fully funded on Kickstarter) which…
Stream video from your Raspberry Pi camera module
I know I’ve covered streaming before, but this is just a reminder to myself that the best method I’ve found is using Silvan Melchoir’s RaspiMJPEG which he has combined with a web interface (pictured). All the instructions are available on the Raspberry…
Raspberry Pi shop, The Pi Hut, owner gets interviewed by RasPi.Today
Jamie Mann, owner of The Pi Hut and UK maker store Makersify, and all-round top bloke, has been interviewed by Russell Barnes for the RasPi.Today podcast. He talks about all sorts of things including the CamJam EduKit and it’s well…