Martin Meadows-Evans has done a nice video of unboxing a B+, this time from RS Components, so we get to see their packaging (which I personally don’t think is as nice as Element 14’s).
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Teaching children to code in Lebanon with the Raspberry Pi
Eliane Metni, native of Beirut and based at the University of London’s Institute of Education leads the International Education Association, a Lebanese non-government organisation committed to global learning opportunities through ICT for Lebanon and throughout the Arab world. She has…
Southend-on-Sea Raspberry Jam for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts – 16th August
Booking is now open for the next Jam at Southend which takes place on Saturday 16th August, and what a Jam-packed Jam it looks like being. Here’s a list of the presentations/workshops currently listed: Robot arm interfacing and video streaming via…
Multi-directional cameras with the IVPort for Raspberry Pi
Here’s an interesting board for the Pi. It allows you to connect two cameras (or 4 if you stack two boards) to the Pi and then switch between them. I can imagine this being used for security camera applications where…
Add touch and gesture recognition to your Raspberry Pi
Thanks to RasPi.Today for this one. Thanks to a simple I2C expansion board, you can now add touch and gesture recognition to your Raspberry Pi. The board, called simply the ‘Hover’ is $39 and plugs into the I2C pins on…
Talk from EuroPython with Raspberry Pi’s Ben Nuttall
Just spotted this on Twitter! Ben Nuttall of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education Team is currently in Berlin at EuroPython. He’s delivered a talk on the Foundation’s work in Education which can be seen below:
Raspberry Pi controlled 3D printing
I’ve edited this post since I originally posted it as someone pointed out that it wasn’t just the Pi controlling the printer. Doh! Daniel Blair has hooked up his Pi and an Arduino to the printer, a Printrbot, and used a…
Raspberry Pi Model B+ review from V3
Daniel Robinson, from the UK technology website V3, has done a very balanced, enthusiastic review of the B+. Read it here.
Great #RaspberryPi websites – RasPi.Today – @RasPiToday
This is number 9 in my list of Great Sites. This time, it’s RasPi.Today, a fairly new site which showcases it’s own podcast and original interviews. It is currently the only website that offers a regular podcast. Created and managed by Russell Barnes,…
Computing in rural India with the Raspberry Pi
Dr Maximilian Bock and Aftab Jalia from the University of Cambridge recently ran two three-day workshops in rural India using the Raspberry Pi. The first workshop was for 15-19 year olds and the second was for a younger group of…