Here’s Matt Manning giving his balanced review of the Kano kit. Well worth watching if you’re thinking of buying the kit. In short: there are advantages and disadvantages to the kit and it’s heart is in the right place. You…
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Raspberry Pi Foundation gains new Chairman
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that Jack Lang is stepping down from the position of Chairman of the Foundation. He’ll remain on the board as Vice Chair. The position of Chair will be filled by David Cleevely who…
Birmingham Raspberry Jam – West Midlands event for the Raspberry Pi
Spencer Organ is running a Raspberry Jam in Birmingham on 22nd November. It’s taking place at King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy (which is just a fabulously long name for a school) and will run from 10am-3pm. There will be various…
New video series on Raspberry Pi robots
Matthew Timmons-Brown, “The Raspberry Pi Guy”, has just started a new series on robotics on his YouTube channel. Matt’s always been a strong proponent of using robots in education, both in schools and at home, so this comes as so…
October issue of the MagPi magazine out for Raspberry Pi owners
The MagPi have just published their October 2014 issue. This time, judging by the cover, there are articles on: Using game console controllers with the Pi Programming games using FUZE BASIC An article about Matboard A guide to using Git…
Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR scanner
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves…
Kickstarter tracker on the Raspberry Pi (part 2)
Alex Eames is currently running a series on programming a Kickstarter tracker script on the Pi using Python. He’s just published part 2. Part 1 can be found here.
First industrial application board with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module
In what I think is a first for the Compute Module, French company CALAO Systems has just announced the launch of the PInBALL board – a platform for industrial Raspberry Pi users. It has the following specs: SoC / Memory / Storage …
Ethical hacking experiment uses Raspberry Pi
In June, European law enforcement agency Europol, backed by German ethical hacking company SySS, conducted an experiment in London. The experiment involved setting a mobile Raspberry Pi unit up as a wifi hotspot to allow connected devices access to the internet. It…
Weather station controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Year 12 students Liam and Nico from Howick College, New Zealand, have created a Raspberry Pi-controlled weather station.The Weather Station can log readings from 1 minute upwards. It logs temperature, pressure, humidity, rainfall and wind speed.The logged file and the…