Albert had a problem. He quite often corrupted or messed up his Pi’s SD card. Unfortunately, also on the SD card was lots of Minecraft work carried out by his kids. This meant that lots of work was being lost.…
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Pi Wars 2017 – Raspberry Pi robotics competition – rules and challenges published #PiWars
Two Pi Wars posts on the same day? Why yes! We’ve just finished publishing general information, general rules and the list of challenges for the 2017 Pi Wars competition.
Exclusive Pi Wars news on the newest edition of The Pi Podcast
There is news from the Pi Wars team (Tim and me) on the new edition of The Pi Podcast. I won’t spoil the exclusive here, but suffice to say: It’s exciting, it’s different from last year and we think people…
GPIO Zero reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter
Alex Eames, of RasPiO and RasPi.TV fame has just launched his latest Kickstarter. This one is for a rather nice 30cm/12″ ruler filled with GPIO Zero reference code, as pictured above. Alex previously did an RPi.GPIO reference ruler that was half…
Controlling the Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth on the micro:bit
Barry Byford is a bit of a Bluetooth nut and he has turned his attention to the micro:bit and its Bluetooth interface. In this example (in the video above) he shows us how a micro:bit button press can be detected…
ARM Holdings set to be taken over by Japanese company
Japanese company Softbank is to make a £24bn bid to buy Cambridge-based ARM Holdings. The Raspberry Pi’s CPU contains an ARM processor, along with the VideoCore GPU. What this will mean for the Raspberry Pi is anyone’s guess at this point.…
Use Initial State to create a system health dashboard for your Raspberry Pi
Initial State is one of the ever-growing list of sites that take data from your internet of things device and allow you to create dashboards displaying that data. It is one of the better ones, and they’ve certainly ploughed a…
10 Raspberry Pi Zero project ideas
Oh no, not another list, I hear you cry! 🙂 Well, I wrote this one, myself, for The Pi Hut. It’s a collection of projects that you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Obviously, it has a bit of…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – Saturday 17th September – #rjam #raspberrypi
We are making a triumphant return to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge (UK) on Saturday, 17th September. We’ll have our usual mix of Talks, Workshops, Show-and-Tell and, of course, the ever-popular Marketplace. 🙂 Tickets are available from Eventbrite. Tickets are…
Bunch of Raspberry Pi-related reviews over at RasPi.TV
Alex Eames has dug through his review pile and come up with 7 items (!) to look at. The items are as follows: PaPirus Zero from Pi Supply (£24) Displayotron Hat from Pimoroni (£22) Wombat board from Gooligum ($40 USD)…