Frank Thomas-Hockey is organising a Raspberry Jam in Covent Garden, London, on Saturday 29th November. The event is due to take place at Covent Garden Dragon Hall Trust on Stukeley Street which is easily accessible from a bunch of London Underground stations including Holborn…
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Raspberry Pi CPD for teachers comes to Wales – Picademy Cymru
The Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced that they are to hold a special Picademy in Wales on 19th and 20th November. The event, which is seeking to attract Welsh primary and secondary teachers, is to be run at the Sony…
Maker store Phenoptix to close after 11 years in business
Online maker retailer Phenoptix is to close its doors after a successful 11 years of operation. Speaking on his blog, Ben Gray has explained that he wants to devote more time to his family, and so has taken a role at…
BBC Buggy controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Not loads of detail on this, but it looks fun. Steve Battle has taken an old BBC Buggy (from 1983!) and strapped a Raspberry Pi to it. He’s used two GPIO boards – the IO Pi from AB Electronics and…
Hands-on with the FUZE Raspberry Pi computer workstation
The FUZE has been out for a while now. It is an all-in-one workstation based around the Raspberry Pi and comes with an array of electronic components, a breadboard and a proprietary breakout board. The case is extremely solid and…
Raspberry Pi-powered Kano ships and is reviewed
According to Kano, the first 18,000 units of their Pi-powered computing platform for kids have shipped. According to a report on TechCrunch.com by Natasha Lomas, around 1,000 units have already landed with the rest due shortly. (Not terribly sure if…
Interview with Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton about technology development
Stewart Haston of mobilegeeks.com took some time to interview Eben Upton on a recent visit to Taipei. In the interview, they talk about the different environments of Shenzhen, Silicon Valley and Cambridge. It’s appallingly proof-read, but if you can fill in…
Expose the network settings on your Raspberry Pi to the boot partition
Using a bit of Linux know-how, Martin Harizanov has worked out how to expose the interfaces and wpa_supplicant files to the boot partition of the Pi’s SD card. This means that you can administer the files by plugging the SD…
PiTFT tutorials updated with new Raspbian
Adafruit has updated the tutorials for their small screen, the PiTFT with the latest version of Raspbian (9/9/2014). I believe this means the image is now compatible with the B+, but don’t quote me on that. It should contain the driver…
Self-balancing 3D-printed Raspberry Pi robot
Paolo Negrini wanted to build himself a self-balancing robot. So, he’s used an Arduino Mega to read all the sensors and then added a Pi as the communications and data-transfer hub. He then printed out the chassis parts on his…