The Raspberry Pi Foundation have just announced the next two sets of dates for their free training course for teachers, Picademy. The dates are: 29th & 30th September 2014 27th & 28th October 2014 If you are a teacher, you can…
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Hear all about the Raspberry Pi in Education with Ben Nuttall
Ben Nuttall, member of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education team, is currently on tour in the United States spreading the good news about the Pi and generally making a nuisance of himself (he says, ducking things being thrown at him from…
Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton about the Raspberry Pi Model B+
On Thursday I attended an Element 14 webinar with Eben Upton of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in which he talks about the Pi, the Compute Module and also introduces the model B+. He also fields questions from the audience. Element…
Interview with Pete Lomas, co-founder and trustee at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Recently at the Better Embedded conference in Florence, Open Electronics ran into Pete Lomas and decided to ask him some questions about the development of the Pi and it’s evolution into the Compute Module and model B+. It’s not often…
Highlights from the Element 14 Raspberry Pi Webinar
I’ve just finished listening to a webinar starring the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Eben Upton. In it, he talked about the B+ and all the improvements made to the board during the development process. Afterwards he fielded questions from the audience…
More on Raspberry Pi Model B+ HATs
James Adams, Director of Hardware at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has posted to the Foundation blog some official information about HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) boards that will be compatible with the B+. I previously covered this announcement on the…
Evolution of the Raspberry Pi with James Adams
Russell Barnes has done a great interview with James Adams, the Foundation’s head of hardware, over on RasPi.Today. It’s well worth a read if you’re interested in how the Compute Module and the B+ came about and some of the…
New Sonic Pi competition for Raspberry Pi owners
The Foundation have just announced a forthcoming competition in which young people are invited to present their best compositions created on Sonic Pi v2. The competition, which will be opened in September, will allow winners to present their compositions to…
Raspberry Pi Education Fund now accepting applications
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has put together an Education Fund: a £1 million pot of money to be distributed to projects that “encourage young people to learn about computing or illustrate how computing can be used to enhance education in STEM or the creative arts.”…
Virtual morse code with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched a new educational resource to to commemorate the declaration of World War I. With it, you’ll be able to build your own morse code machine and have a Raspberry Pi play the morse and interpret…