Thought I’d share this with you as someone at work pointed it out. Online course provider Udemy is currently running a Black Friday offer on (presumably) all of their courses, including Raspberry Pi courses. They are offering the courses at…
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Western Digital expands their Raspberry Pi PiDrive hard drive range with the Foundation Edition
Western Digital has announced some new products in their PiDrive range. The PiDrive is a series of hard drives which can be powered and driven directly off the Pi’s USB ports. The Foundation Edition is designed to take the Operating System…
American school student creates rehabilitation aid from a soccer ball and a Raspberry Pi
Thanks to Alex over at Raspberry Pi for finding this one! US-based eighth-grade student Amelia Day wanted to fuse her love of soccer (I know, I know, ‘football’) and her engineering skills into a project for school. So, she took…
pi-top launches Champions scheme to help get Raspberry Pi workstations into the community
Over on the pi-top blog, Cat Lamin has just announced the pi-top Champions scheme in which Raspberry Pi community members have been selected to spread a little Pi about. Myself and Tim Richardson (we run the Cambridge Raspberry Jam together, in case…
Sittingbourne/Kent Raspberry Jam – 10th December
Coming up in a few weeks time, Bethanie Fentiman is running a Raspberry Jam in Sittingbourne, Kent. There will be a mixture of drop-in activities and workshops including Sonic Pi, physical computing and Minecraft. Sounds like a great, informal event.…
Baltimore Raspberry Jam – 3rd December
The Digital Harbor Foundation are running a Raspberry Jam on Saturday, 3rd December at their tech center on Light Street in Baltimore. The event runs from 10am-4pm and looks to be a mix of show-and-tell and free-form hacking. Get your free…
Download BBC programmes via get_iplayer on the Raspberry Pi
get_iplayer is a set of scripts that can be used to download BBC iPlayer content for offline viewing. Recently, Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV noticed that something was amiss and that the scripts no longer worked. Well, he has now come…
MozFest 2016 – one Space Wrangler’s view of Raspberry Pi fun/madness
Andrew Mulholland was a Space Wrangler for the YouthZone this year at MozFest, the massive London-based get-together for people hoping to make their way in the tech world, and the Internet in particular. He has now, after the dust has…
New crowdfunding campaign for a Raspberry Pi-powered, hobbyists’ alarm system
Zach and Jake are two 16-year olds who are starting up a company called MakeTronix. To launch their company, they are running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to produce the MakeTronix Alarm. It is a hobbyists’ alarm system featuring a…
Sega Genesis gets a Raspberry Pi 3 upgrade
Michael Lyons from Florida has taken a second-hand Radica Sega Genesis system (which he bought off eBay for a dollar), prised it apart, removed the innards and replaced them with a Raspberry Pi 3. And all in one sitting! He’s recorded…