Cat Lamin has continued her work with the EduKit and has written up a second blog post about her experience. Read it here.
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New port labeller board from RasPiO for the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames at RasPiO has just launched a new product. Following on from his successful port labeller boards for the model B, he has now launched one for the B+. It’s pretty nifty and is narrow enough that it fits inside…
Upgrading a Commodore 64 with a Raspberry Pi
John Reder has taken the shell of an old Commodore 64 and placed a Raspberry Pi inside. Using PiMAME he has emulated the C64 and now has a working system! Read more here or view the video below.
Slice – a media player powered by Raspberry Pi
A team comprised of Raspberry Pi Foundation insiders, directors of Pimoroni and a music producer have banded together under the title of FiveNinjas to launch a Kickstarter for a new media player called ‘Slice’. The aluminium-cased player is based on…
Design a printed circuit board using DesignSpark PCB
The Average Man has done a great guide on using DesignSpark PCB to design a printed circuit board. It’s a full tutorial with screenshots and shows you how to design a simple board with one LED on it. It may be…
Try out a Raspberry Pi in Milton Keynes
The National Museum of Computing, based at Bletchley Park, is currently running “Summer Bytes”, which comprises lots of computer-based activities for all the family. Part of their offering is for people to try out the Raspberry Pi! Summer Bytes runs every…
PS4 with a Raspberry Pi ambilight
EvilBoris has posted a video online showing the Raspberry Pi working as an ambilight server to give environmental lighting effects behind a television. You can see the video below: You can get the kit he used from Lightberry – he…
Sonic Pi 2 performs – music on the Raspberry Pi
Foundation forum user rbn has posted about some music that he has arranged using Sonic Pi 2. There is an accompanying blog post listing the pieces of music he has coded and you can listen to the whole lot by…
Review of the Raspberry Pi CamJam EduKit in action
Cat Lamin has done a well-balanced review of the EduKit over on her blog. It’s great to get this kind of feedback and several of the things she says will help us to make the worksheets better. Read the blogpost here.
Nwazet Raspberry Pi B+ camera box bundle – Review
I was sent one of these by Nwazet but I’m free to say what I like about it. UPDATE: Nwazet has gone out of business but you can still pick one of these up from ModMyPi. The Nwazet Raspberry Pi…