US-based Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Amanda Haughs has been very busy developing resources involving the Raspberry Pi. Her latest set of resources are a series of Task Cards that aim to get children into physical computing using Scratch. The cards, which…
This page is an attempt to list lots of the people who make the Raspberry Pi Community one of the greatest resources available when you’re trying to get started, or when you’re trying to expand your knowledge. They are presented…
The Raspberry Pi has several ‘busses’ (think of them as signal paths!) that can be used to read more complicated sensor signals. I2C Pronounced “Eye-squared-see” or “Eye-two-see”, the I2C bus allows you to read from multiple sensors on just two…
The Raspberry Pi is your gateway to digital making. There are other boards out there, such as Arduino, ODROID, Wemos, micro:bit and Orange Pi, to name a few, but none have got the great combination of power and great community support that…
There’s a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on the block. Called Thonny, it has just been added into the Raspbian image. The MagPi has done a great tutorial and walkthrough of the features of the editor here. Opinion I recently…
Gareth, over at 4tronix, has been busy of late, developing the Playground system. Playground is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, Crumble and micro:bit that allows you to quickly and easily connect up various inputs and outputs using cables…
Alex over at the Foundation has blogged a great Pi-centric shopping guide for the festive season. She’s picked a lot of good stuff here including kits, add-ons, books and accessories. I was going to do my own guide, but she’s done…
This is the 2016 post – you’re probably here because you Googled Raspberry Pi Black Friday deals or something 🙂 Black Friday is upon us. Dun-dun-dunnnnnnnn! As usual, I’ve thrown the net out and asked the Pi retailers what they’ve…
I’ve just received word that 4 new MagPi Essentials books have made their way into print and are now available at The Pi Hut. The books that have been published are: Learn to Code with Scratch Hacking and Making in…
David Whale sent me a couple of books to look at recently. The first, Getting Started with Raspberry Pi Zero, I reviewed a few weeks ago. I now come onto the second one: Getting Started with Python and Raspberry Pi by Dan Nixon.…
