I was fortunate enough to be interviewed by Fahad Siddiqui from Packt Publishing last week about Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi Robotics Challenge Competition. You can read that interview here. Packt have done some great Raspberry Pi books which you…
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Packt offering free Raspberry Pi robotics e-book today
Packt Publishing have been offering a free e-book a day for a while now. Today is the turn of Richard Grimmett’s Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects. Here is a contents listing direct from their web page: 1: GETTING STARTED WITH RASPBERRY…
Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book published
Here’s a new publication from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Rather than print digital-only issues 31-35 individually, they have taken the ‘best bits’ from those issues and mashed them together to create the Projects Book. It has 200 pages and costs…
Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects book – 50% off with a discount code
Richard Grimmett’s book “Raspberry Pi Robotics Projects” is currently on sale for 50% off from the O’Reilly online bookshop. Usually selling for $35.99, it is available for $17.99 using discount code “DEAL”. This offer does expire tomorrow so get in…
Arduino programming for the Raspberry Pi – RasPiO Duino launched for general sale
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV recently ran a very successful Kickstarter campaign for the RasPiO Duino – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. The Duino contains the same ATMEGA 328 chip that is on an Arduino and plugs directly onto the first 26 pins…
Raspberry Pi for Dummies – 2nd Edition review
Back in March last year, I reviewed Raspberry Pi for Dummies by Sean McManus and Mike Cook and gave it a solid 7/10. I recently received a copy of the 2nd edition of the book and have been asked to review…
Great review for Adventures in Minecraft book
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon’s “Adventures in Minecraft” is fast becoming the de-facto book for learning to program Minecraft through Python. In her ecstatic review of the book, Maryann Goldman of GeekMom.com takes us through the first few chapters which she…
Save 50% on O’Reilly Raspberry Pi books
O’Reilly are having a sale. They have 4 Raspberry Pi-themed ‘Make’ books on offer: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (co-written by Raspberry Pi’s own Matt Richardson) Make a Raspberry Pi-controlled Robot Raspberry Pi and AVR Projects (co-written by master hacker…
Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched
Martin O’Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book…
Adventures in Minecraft – a new book for Raspberry Pi owners
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon have been busy writing a new book which uses Minecraft Pi Edition to teach Python programming. Written in the same format as Carrie Anne Philbin’s awesome book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, it covers everything from basic…