Blog Archive

December 2015

• 63

  Found a Raspberry Pi in your Christmas stocking this morning? Read on!

  Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on!

• 17

  Mashup Minecraft with The MagPi #41

  Grab the latest edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, today!

• 8

  Sense HAT Christmas projects

  Christmas fun and games with the Sense HAT

• 1

  “Our Christmas tree’s a boy?”

  Our favourite Christmas lights project of 2015

• 11

  Star Wars Carnival (no spoilers!)

  Zapping the Dark Side

• 19

  The Pi á la Code Project: Taking the Raspberry Pi to rural India

  A high-school girl from America brings coding to a school in rural India

• 7

  Glasgow Raspberry Pi Day

  Some Scottish Jam

• 18

  Christmas gifts for 2015

  Need a gift for the Pi-lover in your life? Start here!

• 9

  Light painting with a Raspberry Pi

  Gorgeous persistence of vision project from Adafruit

• 7

  DOTs Board: on sale now!

  Conductive paint activity board

• 8

  Make Games with Python – the latest e-book in The MagPi Essentials range!

  Make Games with Python with The MagPi's latest Essentials e-book

• 8

  Christmas lights

  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

• 16

  Astro Pi: Launch review and ISS arrival

  Pis in space!

• 18

  Pi Wars

  Pi Wars - a Jam-packed robotics guest post from 10-year-old Femi

• 12

  Beetlecam

  Easy timelapse for nocturnal pets

• 15

  Raspberry Pi Calendar

  Official calendar, with bonus February 29!

• 58

  Astro Pi: Launch is tonight!

  The Astro Pi flight hardware launch is tonight!

• 81

  Latest Raspbian update

  The latest set of changes to the Foundation's Raspbian image

• 26

  Creating and Kickstarting Slice, the Compute Module-Based Media Player

  What it's like setting up a hardware business from scratch

November 2015

• 5

  Triangulating the office dog

  Keeping tabs on the office pet

• 177

  Did you get a Raspberry Pi Zero?

  This was a triumph.

• 898

  Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer

  A Raspberry Pi for $5

• 46

  Alex’s Nixie Clock

  Alex is ten. Here's his amazing school project.

• 50

  GPIO Zero: a friendly Python API for physical computing

  Physical computing just got a whole lot more accessible with this one weird trick

• 6

  Hour of Code 2015

  Cracking projects to help beginners and intermediate programmers enjoy this year's Hour of Code

• 16

  The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book is out now!

  200 pages collecting issues 31-35 of The MagPi. The perfect Christmas gift!

• 7

  University of York: Raspberry Pi Challenge 2015

  Our Gordon Hollingworth judges York undergrads in the Raspberry Pi Challenge

• 9

  Raspberry Pi at MozFest 2015

  An awesome army of volunteers took Raspberry Pi to MozFest 2015

• 1

  The Digital Eagles have landed

  The Raspberry Pi Foundation education team trains 25 of Barclays' Digital Eagles

• 12

  Digital, free, forever: the first 30 issues of The MagPi

  The MagPi issues one to 30 are now available on our digital apps, for free

• 44

  Now Available for Download: Processing

  Bringing visual arts coding to Raspberry Pi

• 7

  Absolute Genius Super Tech with Dick & Dom

  Watch Fran Scott blow stuff up with Raspberry Pi ... for Science!

• 7

  Connecting educators: Raspberry Pi hosts a CAS hub

  CAS hubs allow educators, developers and industry experts to meet up. We hosted our first last week.

• 7

  Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Recap

  Pi fans meet up at booksellers across the United States

• 6

  Astro Pi on the BBC

  Astro Pi competition winner Hannah on peak-time TV with astronaut Tim Peake

• 4

  Astro Pi website launch

  The new Astro Pi website is now live and packed full of space-age awesome

• 1

  Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists: openFrameworks

  Yasmin Curren reflects on the exciting possibilities of a tool for creative coding

• 19

  Learn to love the command line with The MagPi

  Conquer the command line with The MagPi's new Essentials e-book

• 26

  Putting a Code Club in every community

  Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club join forces

• 1

  SnowPi, the GPIO snowman for Raspberry Pi

  Learn to solder and control LEDs with your Raspberry Pi using this fun wintry kit!

October 2015

• 4

  MozFest YouthZone Workshops

  Raspberry Pi workshops for young people in London, 6-8 Nov

• 20

  The MagPi #39 is out now!

  Grab the latest edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, today!

• 4

  Teach, learn and make with our free learning resources

  Try our independent learning activities, lesson plans and schemes of work

• 3

  Raspberry Pi projects for Halloween 2015

  More spooky shenanigans than you can shake an SD card at

• 25

  Across the United States: Raspberry Jams at Barnes & Noble

  Meet other community members and check out The MagPi in print!

• 69

  Weather Station for Schools: project update

  Raspberry Pi weather station update

• 11

  A creative person’s guide to computing

  What it’s like to enter the world of digital making as a beginner

• 11

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 7 – Launch Vehicle Changed

  An update on the Astro Pi mission

• 41

  Disabling drones with a Raspberry rifle

  Raspberry Pi cyber-weaponry

• 13

  Compute Module CubeSats

  Raspberry Pi Compute Module in CubeSat on-board computers

• 8

  Skycademy – Balloons Everywhere!

  A round up of events following our free High Altitude Ballooning CPD

• 8

  Major League Hacking Local Hack Day

  The largest ever student hackathon

• 22

  Senior Pi

  A simplified platform for the elderly

• 17

  Working Doctor Who props with Raspberry Pi

  A conversing K-9, multi-functional sonic screwdrivers and a TARDIS that's flown to the stratosphere

• 6

  Maker Faire Berlin 2015

  Raspberry Jam Berlin take us to our first European Maker Faire

• 6

  A lunar eclipse time-lapse

  HomoFaciens captures the September supermoon eclipse with a Raspberry Pi camera

• 31

  A new version of Scratch for Raspberry Pi: now with added GPIO

  Scratch is now faster and has built-in GPIO support

• 9

  Meet my Pixel Pals from Soldering Sunday

  Soldering Sunday is raising funds for Buzz, a fun educational kit, on Kickstarter.

• 12

  World Maker Faire New York 2015

  New Yorkers go hands-on with the new display, Sense HAT, Astro Pi, and The MagPi

• 19

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 6 – Payload Handover

  Final preparations with the Astro Pi units. They launch in 10 weeks!

• 5

  Kids! Teachers! Developers! PyConUK was a blast!

  PyConUK is one of the Education Team's favourite events of the year

September 2015

• 4

  Wordclock Redux

  A favourite project revisited

• 324

  Jessie Is Here

  A new version of Raspbian is now available

• 3

  Ra: sound art from a pyrite sun disc

  Synthesizing audio representations of mineral patterns

• 46

  Windows 10 Core Starter Pack for Raspberry Pi 2

  New Windows 10 Core Starter Pack for Raspberry Pi 2 - great projects for getting started

• 16

  Issue #38 of The MagPi magazine has landed

  Grab the latest edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, today!

• 9

  Sensly: an air quality monitoring HAT

  Monitor your environment with a gas- and particulates-sensing HAT

• 1

  Sci-Fi your Pi

  Boldly going, and all that jazz

• 2

  Guitar boy

  Retro gaming with strings attached

• 18

  SeeMore for World Maker Faire 2015

  Meet us at the Faire!

• 11

  Hanging wall plotter

  A new HomoFaciens tutorial

• 15

  Build a better mousetrap

  A humane solution

• 3

  Quaver, the analogue looping piano

  Multiplayer piano

• 24

  Cube solver

  You can do the cube, but you don't have to.

• 12

  Raspberry Pi in Estonia project launch

  We've beenworking on an education programme with the British Embassy in Tallinn

• 30

  Don’t try this at home: how not to hack the Raspberry Pi display

  How not to hack the Raspberry Pi display

• 27

  The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben

  How will a Raspberry Pi look, ten years from now?

• 394

  The Eagerly Awaited Raspberry Pi Display

  The official Raspberry Pi touch display is available now

• 7

  DJ MistaJam and Sam Aaron compose using code

  Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron teaches Radio 1 and 1Xtra's DJ MistaJam to live code music

• 7

  GoBox: A Robotics Subscription Service

  Get new Raspberry Pi robot challenges delivered monthly

• 18

  Barrel o’ Fun: Arcade machine barrel table

  Arcade machine in a barrel

• 9

  MATLAB & Simulink Student Suite – Raspberry Pi Bundle

  MATLAB and Simulink student suite

• 7

  Fish tank temperature probe: an ideal beginner’s project

  Fish tank temperature probe

August 2015

• 3

  Joker: a Raspberry Pi + Python joke machine

  How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that's a hardware problem.

• 2

  Capacitive touch HAT from Adafruit

  For all your bananapiano needs

• 12

  Issue #37 of The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine, is out now!

  Grab the latest edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, today!

• 47

  Buy the Sense HAT – as seen in space*!

  Buy real spacefaring hardware for your own experiments

• 35

  PiDP-8/I – remaking the PDP-8/I

  Breathing new life into computing from the 60s

• 21

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 5 – flight safety testing

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 5

• 3

  Skycademy Update

  An update to Skycademy, our free High Altitude CPD

• 6

  Formula AllCode – robotics course

  A Kickstarter robotics course

• 7

  Twitter for dogs

  What's more amazing than a talking dog? A spelling bee!

• 27

  The TRS-80 model 100 goes online

  Giving old hardware new life

• 10

  Australia & Singapore Pioneering Education Tour

  Education Pioneer Carrie Anne visit to Australia and Singapore

• 11

  Rocket launch footage from an onboard Pi

  A Raspberry Pi ascends to 5.1km and videos the trip

• 4

  Education Summit Videos from EuroPython

  Watch Carrie Anne, James and Ben's talks from this year's EuroPython conference

• 22

  Science lessons with the camera board

  Slow-mo video FOR SCIENCE

• 8

  After Dark

  Galleries are creepy places at night

• 28

  Bat Pi

  Identifying bats by their echolocation calls

• 11

  String pong

  This month's MagPi extravaganza of hardware fun from Mike Cook

• 6

  Solar Eclipses from Past to Future, Earth to Jupiter

  What would a solar eclipse look like on Mars?

• 12

  Welcome Marc – our new Head of Curriculum

  Marc is very excited to get stuck into creating new learning resources

• 11

  Autonomous recording for marine ecology

  Monitor acoustic events underwater, save the whales

• 27

  Pimoroni is 3

  Here's the stuff we've been up to at Pimoroni since the last time we updated

July 2015

• 22

  The MagPi issue 36 is here and we’re in print!

  The new issue is here and you can buy it in print today!

• 26

  Bike computer for the myopic

  A Kindle, a Pi and some rubber bands

• 4

  DDR meets the Simon game

  70s electronic toy meets millennial arcade classic

• 18

  Attend a Picademy@Google in Birmingham

  Free teacher training: Picademy@Google comes to Birmingham!

• 9

  Pneumatic tooth fairy

  A helping hand for the tooth fairy

• 9

  Pigeon Pi

  Pigeon racing, with added Pi

• 28

  Roberts R300 Reinvention

  A build for audiophiles

• 18

  Bedbot – furniture with a tech twist

  A beautifully over-engineered alarm clock

• 5

  A new board member

  Board shuffle

• 18

  Welcoming our new CEO

  Philip Colligan has survived his first couple of weeks at Pi Towers

• 13

  Boombox Blaster

  We're hopelessly out-cooled

• 21

  PatternCraft

  Minecraft with hammers

• 21

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 4

  An update on the Astro Pi mission

• 17

  Ben Heck’s DIY graphing calculator

  5318008

• 7

  Where’s Wally? Find him faster with Wolfram Language

  That's Waldo for those of you not in the UK.

• 33

  Pi Wars – annual public robot Olympics

  The second annual Pi Wars - apply now!

• 20

  OSMC stable release

  A milestone for OSMC

• 10

  Remote twerking robot

  Dance the night away with Dan Aldred

• 7

  The triumphant return of the Raspberry Pi Guy

  Video robot tutorial series

• 14

  Climate control

  It's too darn hot.

• 8

  Laser Dog Monitor

  Remote dog training

• 5

  Blackgang Chine dinosaur update

  Rooooar!

June 2015

• 19

  Naturebytes wildlife cam kit

  Pi-powered wildlife camera

• 33

  The MagPi issue 35 – next month we’re in print!

  A new issue, and news about the print version!

• 21

  A chicken incubation system

  Grow your own chickens

• 21

  Chickens redux

  Shenanigans

• 37

  Mechanise your chickens

  Simplifying chicken husbandry

• 5

  A Big Year for Dwarf Planets

  Just how big ARE dwarf planets?

• 24

  Skycademy – Free High Altitude CPD

  Our free high altitude CPD takes place in Cambridge in August

• 16

  Outernet

  One-way internet from space

• 9

  Flappy Brain

  Play a familiar game using nothing but the power of your mind

• 15

  Diddyborg metal edition

  An absolute brute of a little robot

• 147

  Raspberry Pi Official Case

  Gordon takes us on a whirlwind tour of injection moulding

• 11

  Kite mapping

  A bird's eye view from a kite

• 25

  Announcing Picademy USA

  We're excited to bring our professional development program stateside!

• 4

  A Smart Programming Language for a Smart Cities Hackathon

  Digging deep into public data with the Wolfram Language

• 8

  Beer and Wine Fridge of Awesomeness

  Monitor your beverage stock from anywhere in the world

• 10

  EuroPython 2015 – Education Summit

  Announcing the first EuroPython Education Summit

• 10

  Building Arduino in the USA with Raspberry Pi

  Adafruit building Arduino in the USA

• 7

  Apply now for Picademy in July

  Our free CPD for teachers takes place next in Cambridge in July

• 11

  A wheelchair controlled by eye movements

  Teenagers build a wheelchair control system that uses eye movements

• 7

  Maker Faire Bay Area 2015

  Hands-on learning with circuit boards and electric paint

• 28

  Ant-Man: Micro-Tech Challenge

  Seeking creative, DIY girls who can make something BIG with small technology

• 9

  The MagPi Issue 34 – out now!

  Free download - tutorials, projects and much more!

May 2015

• 30

  Hollywood, now with added Pi

  The Raspberry Pi as movie extra

• 17

  SamplerBox – drop-and-play sampler

  Make your own 128-voice sampler

• 7

  Emoti – Visualising our Emotions

  A project from some of our Creative Technologists at the Art Hackathon

• 6

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 3

  Astro Pi Mission update 3

• 13

  Bank Holiday kind of blog

  No blog today, move along, nowt to see here.

• 16

  Getting started with the Internet of Things

  Getting started with IoT

• 10

  Pocket PiGRRL: is that an emulator in your pocket?

  Pocket PiGRRL - RetroPie in your pocket

• 10

  The Inquirer Tech Hero Awards

  Tech Hero Awards 2015

• 11

  Two factor authentication safe deposit box

  Two factor authentication safe deposit box

• 2

  Snapping Stills with the Red TED Letters

  TEDsters pose with the iconic logo and capture it with help from Raspberry Pi.

• 20

  Modulo: a simple, modular solution for building electronic devices

  Modulo: a simple, modular solution for building electronic devices

• 67

  Price cut! Raspberry Pi Model B+ now only $25

  A price cut for fans of Raspberry Pi 1

• 34

  The Sense HAT: headgear for the terminally curious

  The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT

• 41

  Astro Pi flight case

  Details and pictures of the Astro Pi flight case

• 20

  Despicable Katie’s Minion Pi

  A chillingly competent attempt at world domination

• 9

  Happy Scratch Day 2015!

  Happy Scratch Day 2015

• 155

  Another Raspbian Desktop User Interface Update

  Details of the next set of user interface changes to the Raspbian desktop

• 30

  Camera board extension

  Beyond the ribbon cable!

• 74

  SSH shenanigans

  Kid hacking Dad's computer from her Raspberry Pi

• 5

  Meet the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists

  Get to know the 2015 Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists!

• 6

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 2

  What's been going on with the Astro Pi competition?

• 13

  MagPi issue 33 – out now!

  Free to download, and packed with goodies!

April 2015

• 129

  Windows 10 for IoT

  New developer preview has landed

• 11

  Welcome Philip!

  The Raspberry Pi Foundation's new CEO

• 8

  Picademy South West

  Many learning opportunities to be had at a Picademy near you in the South West!

• 7

  The Wheel of (BASIC) Excuses

  A big boy did it and ran away.

• 20

  Plotter made from scrap computer parts

  Battery-powered, wireless LAN plotter

• 29

  Stream PC games to your TV

  Steam Machines for those on a budget

• 7

  Benton Park Live Coding Orchestra – The Planets

  The Benton Park Planets Suite

• 5

  Droplet photography

  Affordable setup for photography fans

• 24

  Visualising core load on the Pi 2

  View CPU load remotely

• 22

  Amazonian rainforest simulation

  An Amazonian biome, complete with weather

• 3

  Raspberry Pi Powered Minion Fart Gun Machine

  Alarm your family with mechanised farting

• 10

  Python in Education – free e-book from O’Reilly

  Nicholas Tollervey talks Pi in his Python in Education book

• 30

  Launching Picademy@Google Leeds

  Launching Picademy@Google, our latest teacher training, thanks to Google!

• 22

  TyTelli – a DIY Smartphone

  Make your own homebrew smartphone

• 12

  LEGO spectrometers

  First-year splendiferousness from Imperial College Chemistry students

• 12

  DIY home alert system

  Comprehensive home monitoring and automation

• 20

  Growing things in the (mushroom) cloud*

  Automating a mushroom grow

• 10

  We represent the Lollipop League

  Giving the Tin Man a heart

• 11

  Your Photo on a t-shirt from Rapanui

  Photo-on-a-tshirt-as-a-service

• 66

  First Pi in space

  We accidentally sent a Pi into space

March 2015

• 15

  MagPi Issue 32 – out now!

  70 pages of essential Raspberry Pi knowledge and know-how

• 16

  The Young Innovators’ Club in Ulaanbaatar

  Pi-based engineering and tech education for school students in Mongolia

• 15

  LEGO model smart home

  Teeny-tiny home automation

• 42

  PiJuice: portable power for your Pi projects

  Compact power and power management, solar version also available

• 28

  Our 1000th blog post!

  Thank you for making us feel less alone

• 16

  A Pi’s eye view of the solar eclipse

  Photos, videos and measurements captured during Friday's partial eclipse

• 30

  Raspi-LTSP is now PiNet: easily manage a Raspberry Pi classroom

  Centralised user accounts and file storage for your Raspberry Pi classroom

• 14

  Piper: Learning electronics with Minecraft

  The story of how Raspberry Pi became a key component in this kit.

• 17

  Raspberry Pi Internet doorbell

  A doorbell that phones you, texts you and streams video

• 26

  Observing a solar eclipse with high-altitude Pis

  Dave Akerman helps cover the eclipse for the BBC, with some Pis

• 20

  Picademy North at the National STEM Centre

  The education team are taking Picademy to the National STEM Centre in York

• 53

  Slice Media Player Starts Shipping!

  The first Compute Module Kickstarter product to reach backers

• 29

  Dots Board – Developer Giveaway!

  Launching a new creative PCB board - DOTS!

• 62

  BBC Make it Digital

  Partnership with BBC Make it Digital

• 19

  Star Wars Episode 3.14: A New Hope

  The Star Wars Death star scene animated in Minecraft Pi

• 11

  I spy… Carrie Anne on BBC Technobabble

  Carrie-Anne Philbin on BBC Technobabble

• 30

  Pi Day is around the corner!

  Find an event near you to celebrate Raspberry Pi!

• 52

  Astro Pi: Flight Hardware Tech Specs

  Flight Hardware Technical Specifications for the Astro Pi HAT

• 2

  Pedalumi – the illuminated pedalboard

  A light organ built into a guitar pedalboard

• 9

  Duelling pianos. Literally.

  Pianos as PlayStation controllers

• 38

  Launch day – what happened to the website?

  What Mythic Beasts did one Monday last month

• 39

  Big Birthday Bash – the aftermath

  We're aching all over. That was a great weekend.

February 2015

• 48

  Happy birthday to us!

  For once, the cake is not a lie!

• 106

  All change: meet the new MagPi!

  All change at The MagPi

• 18

  Tangram: an open source map rendering library

  Display street maps with your Raspberry Pi.

• 32

  Announcement: Creative Technologists 2015-16

  Introducing our new Creative Technologists youth programme

• 37

  Welcome James to our Education Team

  Our newest member of Raspberry Pi Education Team - Welcome James!

• 20

  She said yes

  Most romantic project EVER.

• 41

  A history of Raspberry Pi in LEGO

  Possibly the best thing on the entire internet

• 38

  The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben and Gordon

  Answers about open source and the display board

• 91

  Five million sold!

  Cripes!

• 34

  Portrait of an Inventor

  Video of Eben from RS Components

• 26

  Astro Pi: Mission Update 1

  An update on the Astro Pi mission

• 10

  The results are in for the Sonic Pi Competition!

  Gather round to discuss the results of the Sonic Pi competition

• 8

  The MagPi – Issue 30 out now, and a Kickstarter for Volume 3 in print!

  Get the MagPi Vol 3 in print, and Issue 30 out now

• 36

  Prepare for Pi Day!

  We're touting celebratory events across the United States.

• 227

  Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools

  Get your school involved!

• 194

  Xenon Death Flash: a free physics lesson

  Camera-shy Pi

• 61

  Emulation on Raspberry Pi 2

  More fun for your money with Pi 2

• 95

  Benchmarking Raspberry Pi 2

  How does the Pi 2 stack up?

• 102

  *Taps monitor* – is this thing on?

  A Pi2 roundup

• 870

  Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35

  The newest addition to the Raspberry Pi family

January 2015

• 14

  Teaching literature with Raspberry Pi

  Student-made video games in the English literature classroom

• 8

  The Benton Park Live Coding Orchestra

  Music and code from kids in Leeds

• 18

  Handheld games console – for REAL dummies

  Muppetry

• 15

  Big Birthday Weekend – what’s happening, where and when

  More details on our big birthday event!

• 13

  Education, space, hacking and explosions – Bett 2015

  A big thank you to all who came to see us at BETT

• 8

  Thirty-five Pixels, powered by Raspberry Pi

  An interactive installation powered by Raspberry Pi

• 18

  Flotilla

  A new Kickstarter from Pimoroni

• 19

  Resources Restyled

  A refreshed look and feel to our free learning resources

• 21

  Social animals: electric eel tweets with a Pi

  Live from Tennessee Aquarium

• 24

  Fran Scott’s #Error404 show at BETT

  Fran will be performing her show #Error404: The Explosions-based computing show

• 27

  VNC tutorial from 10-year-old Philip

  Is this the youngest Pi tutorial maker yet?

• 54

  Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend 28 Feb – 1 March 2015

  Raspberry Pi turns three (three!) next month and we would love you to come to our birthday party!

• 14

  Hacking the haulage industry

  More from Andy Proctor

• 14

  Machine learning, combustion engines and real-time control

  Research into real-time learning and control

• 16

  Meet the Education Team at the BETT Show 2015

  Join us for talks, workshops and more

• 0

  Cabe’s home arcade

  Home-made arcade controllers

• 13

  Piano stairs

  How to hack your staircase

• 12

  Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1 – video!

  Watch from anywhere in the world

• 58

  A “hello” from a hobbyist-turned-evangelist

  Hello! I'm Matt Richardson, the newest member of the Raspberry Pi team.

• 9

  Das Wordclock

  Full DIY instructions

• 14

  New QPU macro assembler

  A better toolchain for GPGPU on Pi

December 2014

• 267

  Changes to the Raspbian user interface

  Some background to the Raspbian UI changes

• 8

  Adafruit capacitive Christmas shenanigans

  Fruity happenings from NYC

• 60

  Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on!

  Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on!

• 1

  Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: sneak peek

  Clips from this year's lectures

• 4

  Naughty or Nice

  He's making a list and checking it twice

• 11

  Penguin Lifelines

  Monitoring wildlife in extreme environments

• 56

  Pi HomeGuard: helping people stay independent longer

  Helping people stay independent in their own homes

• 6

  Christmas light sequencer

  2014's most distracting Christmas tree.

• 4

  XmasPiLights from Reading College

  Social media techno-tree

• 15

  Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

  This year's Christmas Lectures are sponsored by Raspberry Pi

• 24

  Controlling Telescopes with Raspberry Pi and Mathematica

  Astrophotography and more

• 25

  Christmas shopping guide

  It's that time of year again!

• 1

  MagPi issue 29 – out now!

  Christmas holiday issue

• 61

  Astro Pi: Your Code in Space

  We're sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station!

• 40

  Christmas competition

  Win a B+ and help decorate Pi Towers!

• 10

  Pi Wars – Cambridge Jam. With robots.

  Raspberry Pi robot competition

• 24

  Wheels and a sandwich

  Meet TOAST•E.

• 30

  Putting out feelers: Compute Module Symposium

  Call for presentations at the inaugural Raspberry Pi Compute Module developer conference

• 2

  Take part in the Hour of Code

  Dedicate just one hour to learning how to program with Raspberry Pi as part of Hour of Code Week.

• 6

  Non-formal learning for Syrian refugees

  Education for children without access to schools

• 15

  Raspberry Pi Glove

  Smell the glove!

• 25

  iData Truck: an Internet of Things lorry

  Dashboard Raspberry Pi communicates with the office.

November 2014

• 8

  Art Showcase: A Knight’s Peril

  Haunting a medieval castle

• 2

  Training at Barnardo’s Hub Construction Skills Centre

  Places like the Hub have a huge part to play in vocational education

• 4

  PiPiano: a musical, educational add-on board

  A musical, educational add-on board by 14-year-old Zach Igielman

• 7

  Join us at the Bett Show 2015

  Submit a session for the Raspberry Pi Stand at Bett Show 2015

• 9

  ramanPi: an open source 3D-printable Raman spectrometer

  Powerful molecular identification on a low budget

• 1

  Parkinson’s disease body illusion

  An art installation for health professionals and carers

• 6

  Northern Ireland’s first Raspberry Jams

  Kids from Northern Ireland talk about their local Jam

• 24

  A collection of Pis

  RasPi.TV's Pi agglomeration

• 3

  MagPi issue 28

  New issue, out now!

• 61

  Gertbot is here!

  The latest add-on from Gert

• 26

  Jacquard looms, and a Pi simulator

  A step back into programming history

• 11

  Adventures in Minecraft

  Amazing Minecraft mods with Python: a book about Minecraft programming for young people

• 5

  Let the BattlePi commence…

  Freshers' week challenge at the University of York

• 19

  WiFi-controlled pottery kiln

  Controlling a propane kiln with a Raspberry Pi

• 216

  Raspberry Pi Model A+ on sale now at $20

  Announcing the Model A+, a smaller, more energy-efficient, lower-cost version of the Raspberry Pi

• 5

  Watching an endangered Tuatara hatch

  As I type this, Emma is hugging herself and shouting "LOOK AT THE LOVELY

• 7

  Rendering camera images in Minecraft in real time

  Ferran Fabregas worked out a couple of months ago how to render .jpg

• 6

  Sonic Dreams with Meta-eX and Sonic Pi

  Dr Sam Aaron is the creator of our musical programming environment, Sonic

• 20

  A Raspberry Pi computer lab for learners in South Africa

  Back in July we wrote about an exciting project aiming to make computing

• 8

  Dinosaur retrofit

  A month or so ago, I had an email from a Dr Lucy Rogers (@DrLucyRogers), who

October 2014

• 5

  Halloween!

  There's a lot of spooky Pi shenanigans going on this Halloween. Here at Pi

• 5

  Gameboy Halloween costume

  The good people at Adafruit pointed us at this video. Besides the fact that

• 1

  Pi Talks at PyConUK

  You may remember our Education team attended PyConUK in Coventry last

• 16

  Real-time depth perception with the Compute Module

  Liz: We've got a number of good friends at Argon Design, a tech consultancy

• 11

  Making a Unicorn HAT

  Our good friends at Pimoroni have made a very sparkly HAT. We thought you'd

• 2

  Scooter with blinkenlights

  Alex Markley, a programmer, writer and comedian, has a young relative who,

• 13

  Robot volcanology

  Earlier this week, we talked about Raspberry Pi robots under the sofa.

• 38

  Eben at Techcrunch Disrupt

  Eben was speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in London yesterday, where he had a

• 5

  ToyCollect. A robot under the sofa.

  On Saturday December 6 (we're letting you know ahead of time so you've got

• 3

  Seeking the next Alan Turing – the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge

  Last week saw the London Film Festival open with the premier of The

• 6

  RACHEL-Pi – delivering education worldwide

  Liz: If you're a regular reader, you'll have noticed more and more frequent

• 22

  Compute Module IO Board Hardware Designs Available!

  Back in April we announced the Compute Module, and since then we've had a lot of interest from manufacturers

• 4

  Spreading the Jam

  Today we're launching a new section of our website for information about

• 9

  Goblin detector and Jam review – a guest post from 8-year-old Annabel

  Liz: Annabel Oakley is eight years old. That makes her our youngest ever

• 9

  Make a Tweeting Babbage

  At Picademy, our awesome free training course for teachers, I run a workshop

• 4

  Subscribe to the Raspberry Pi in Education Newsletter

  As an educational charity, education is at the heart of what we do here at

• 8

  Moving pictures

  Earlier this year, we blogged about a shampoo ad that was running in the

• 11

  Chinese Democracy

  We were directed to a Facebook page from Hong Kong this week. It's been set

• 17

  Insert Juggling Pun Here

  Martin, our financial director, dropped by for a budget meeting yesterday.

• 30

  The MagPi issue 27: out now!

  Is that the date already? The new issue of The MagPi, the free magazine

• 12

  Community, coffee and classrooms in Nicaragua

  Liz: Today's guest post is from David Mitchell, who emailed me last week

• 16

  Slimline point-and-shoot camera from Ben Heck

  Ben Heck, King of the Makers, has made the prettiest point-and-shoot camera

• 26

  Open-source syringe pump

  If you're unlucky enough to have required precise, timed doses of drugs

• 20

  Fresh Model B stock in production

  When we announced the launch of the Model B+ back in July, we emphasized

September 2014

• 9

  Picademy Cymru

  Road trip. These are the two words that Clive, our Director of Education

• 10

  CNBC visit Pi Towers

  At the start of September, a film crew from CNBC came to visit Cambridge.

• 14

  A digital making community for wildlife: Naturebytes camera traps

  3D-printed wildlife cameras for research and conservation

• 27

  Updates to Minecraft Documentation – and a Python 3 version is on the way!

  No ... we're not adding a Start Menu or a paperclip assistant. This update

• 10

  PiKon and other Pi projects from Sheffield University

  Sheffield has been a maker city for many years - the thriving steel

• 6

  World Maker Faire New York – a report direct from the Americas

  Rachel and Clive spent the weekend with the Pimoroni crew at the World Maker

• 4

  Snakes and Ladders, Pi style

  Les Pounder is a big player in the Linux & free software community in

• 13

  World Maker Faire and PyConUK

  It’s been quiet around Pi Towers lately. Quiet and disquieting, rather

• 6

  Fresh Coffee at Mailchimp

  Ben: Here's a guest post from Steven Sloan, a developer at

• 69

  New Raspbian and NOOBS releases

  If you head over to the downloads page, you'll find new versions of our

• 15

  Let’s get Physical! New physical computing animation

  With the success of the first two productions from Saladhouse, our animator

• 12

  The Raspberry Pi Guy Interviews Clive & Gordon

  Last month we put out a call for questions for our education and engineering

• 73

  Gert’s VGA Adapter

  The Raspberry Pi has an HDMI port to connect a display. If your monitor only

• 10

  CNET: The Making of Raspberry Pi

  At the end of August, Luke Westaway from CNET's Adventures in Tech came to

• 38

  HATs in the wild. And a unicorn.

  If you're a regular reader, you'll recall that a month or so ago, we

• 15

  Sonic Pi v2.0 competition for schools is launched!

  The deadline for this competition has been extended till 9th January

• 12

  Bus stop Pac Man

  Last week saw Trondheim in Norway host a Maker Faire. Rather than go with

• 13

  Talking Fisher Price smartphone

  Back in the mid-seventies, when I was even smaller and more adorable than I

• 3

  Final Call for September Picademy Applicants

  Are you a teacher? Have you got back-to-school blues after yesterday's

• 250

  Web browser released!

  Update: Marco Barisione, who led the browser work at Collabora has written a

August 2014

• 30

  Learn to solder with Carrie Anne

  Carrie Anne Philbin, our Education Pioneer and author of the most excellent

• 21

  Ben’s Mega USA Tour

  Humongous write-up of Ben's trip to the States

• 5

  Sonic Pi: Live & Coding Summer School

  Carrie Anne - I have an ongoing long-term love affair with Sonic Pi ever

• 30

  China press and community tour

  As you might have spotted, if you follow us on Twitter, Eben and I spent the

• 16

  Layer Cam: the lensless tourist camera in a lunchbox

  Have you ever noticed the way that everybody takes the same photo when doing

• 23

  What does a good computing classroom look like?

  Space mattersIn September 2014 (as in a couple of weeks) the new Computing

• 5

  Getting hooked on programming with YRS project ‘Hook’

  Carrie Anne: A few weeks ago, Raspberry Pi hosted its first ever Young

• 14

  The first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo

  Dominique Laloux first got in touch with us in May 2013 when he was on the

• 50

  Call for questions: Q & A interview with the engineering and education teams

  Back in February 2014, Matt Timmons-Brown captured Gordon, our Head of

• 11

  Pi Wars

  Helen: This December will see a Cambridge Raspberry Jam with a difference;

• 17

  Upcoming Picademy Dates – Get Teachers Applying Now!

  It's the summer holidays, and I know teachers will be enjoying a well earned

• 6

  Smartphone rocket launcher

  Teenage electronics enthusiast Lewis Callaway thought that an ad in which

• 49

  Slice – a media player using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module

  We revealed the Raspberry Pi Compute Module back in April, and released the

• 4

  Young Rewired State – Festival of Code 2014

  So, you may have seen on our twitter or elsewhere that we were a host centre

• 6

  More QPU magic from Pete Warden

  Back in June, we mentioned Pete Warden's port of the Deep Belief

• 11

  An image-processing robot for RoboCup Junior

  Helen: Today we're delighted to have a guest post from 17-year-old student

• 15

  KittenGroomer/CIRCLean – data security for journalists and activists

  Liz: Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, makes a habit of finding

• 1

  The MagPi issue 26 – out now!

  August's MagPi, the magazine for the Raspberry Pi community written by the

• 33

  Ben’s USA Tour Dates

  Today I fly to New York to start my Raspberry Pi USA Tour! Thanks to

• 15

  Mathematica 10 – now available for your Pi!

  Liz: If you use Raspbian, you'll have noticed that Mathematica and the

July 2014

• 77

  Introducing Raspberry Pi HATs

  The specification for Raspberry Pi add-on boards

• 5

  Sonic Pi Competition

  Coding music on a Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi has quickly become a great way

• 6

  Submit your application to the Raspberry Pi Education Fund

  Got a great idea or project to teach kids about computing? Need some help

• 18

  100 years since World War I: build a Morse code virtual radio

  On this day 100 years ago, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in

• 24

  Pi in the Sky: hardware for high-altitude balloonists from Dave Akerman

  Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave

• 11

  Exploring computing education in rural schools in India

  Delivering computing education without elaborate infrastructure

• 6

  YRS Festival of Code 2014 – around the UK and at Pi Towers

  Young Rewired State is a network of coders around the world. Every year an

• 3

  Art Showcase: Escape III

  Hey all! It's Rachel again. I have another amazing Art Showcase for you.

• 19

  Solar-powered Raspberry Pi school

  I heard about plans for a new Indiegogo fundraiser last week. It launches

• 63

  Ben’s Raspberry Pi US Tour – August 2014

  Ben here: I'm on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in

• 19

  Picademy 3. A report of some note: and how you can be at Picademy 4

  On Monday and Tuesday this week we ran our third Picademy - two days of

• 8

  Rickmote: Rickrolling Chromecast users

  The Raspberry Pi is a favourite tool of security researchers, and we've seen

• 552

  New product launch! Introducing Raspberry Pi Model B+

  Meet your new favourite piece of hardware. In the two years since we

• 18

  MagPi issue 25 – out now!

  For your weekend reading pleasure, here's issue 25 of the MagPi! Published

• 7

  Bare-metal Tetris duel

  A couple of weeks ago, we featured a first-year undergraduate project from

• 23

  Hamster Party Cam

  As you may have heard, the Boardroom at Pi Towers contains a wall covered in

• 11

  Steer a car. With cheese.

  Building your own remote-controlled robot or car is a favourite activity for

• 24

  The CamJam EduKit – basic electronics for £5!

  Liz: I wasn't at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam this weekend: I was working in

• 12

  PiGrrl

  Adafruit's 3D Thursday series is getting us terribly excited every time they

• 28

  Internet of Things toilet

  There are many things that happen in my bathroom which I wish to keep

• 14

  The big flashing DevOps thing

  Greg Cope mailed us a few weeks ago with a pointer to this project, which

• 11

  Talks from Team Pi

  I've been pointed at a couple of videos which might interest you: you'll

June 2014

• 21

  Bedroom Apollo mission

  Jeff Highsmith is from Make. His Mission Control Desk (a homework desk

• 8

  Adafruit’s Raspberry Pi Photography Award

  Our good friends across the pond at Adafruit are running their first ever

• 39

  Controlling electrical sockets with Energenie Pi-mote

  Amy Mather's home automation work experience

• 16

  PiFox: bare-metal ARM assembly language Star Fox

  Here's something rather special, which should resonate with those of

• 6

  PyConUK Education Track for Teachers

  The Raspberry Pi Education team have really hit the ground running over the

• 110

  Compute Module development kits now available!

  Fuelled by Welsh cakes and a lot of sunshine, the team at Sony Pencoed have

• 10

  GPGPU hacking on the Pi

  Update: As Andrew mentions in the comments below, we recently made the

• 7

  Creating Resources on GitHub Guide from Picademy 2

  This week started with the second run of Picademy - our free CPD course

• 18

  Art Showcase: Binaudios

  Hey all - Rachel here! I have spent the last year talking with lots of

• 16

  Lance at TEDx Oxbridge

  Lance Howarth is CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, leading our charitable

• 16

  Game of Thrones Nintendo keytar hack

  What do you get if you cross a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES),

• 66

  Raspberry Pi at Buckingham Palace, 3 million sold

  Apart from the bit where someone who shall not be named yanked a power cable

• 2

  MagPi issue 24, out now!

  The MagPi's a little late this month, but it's full of good things. The

• 7

  James Bond villain-style alarm clock for the deaf

  A quick post today: I'm in a tearing hurry trying to get our display for

• 7

  Lunar phase clock

  We found a simply beautiful Raspberry Pi project over at Instructables:

• 12

  Joytone

  What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi; 57 geometrically tiled,

• 24

  Train your rat: behavioural science at home

  Skinner boxes are a kind of apparatus used for conditioning and training

• 10

  Real-time orientation display with the MinIMU-9 v2

  The MinIMU-9 v2 (catchy, no?) is a tiny inertial measurement unit (IMU). It

May 2014

• 11

  Raspberry Pi projects at the Maker Faire Bay Area

  Recently a number of us were lucky enough to fly over to the Bay Area Maker

• 10

  Explore your Raspberry Pi with our Online Usage Guide

  You may remember the announcement of our new open source documentation,

• 10

  MouseAir

  Doing the social media stuff that I do, I see a lot of cat-related stuff;

• 20

  UNICEF Pi Project to Educate Syrian Children in Lebanon

  Ben: here's a guest post from one of our great community members, Alex

• 27

  Test Tim’s New Scratch Beta

  Update: from now on, you'll be able to find the most recent beta release of

• 14

  Adventures in Raspberry Pi kits in the Swag Store

  As many of you know, our very own Carrie Anne Philbin spent most of last

• 29

  More Compute Module docs, and an interview with James

  A few days ago, we pushed out some more documentation for the forthcoming

• 16

  ‘Educating with Raspberry Pi’ at Maker Faire

  You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our

• 21

  Back to the Future theme tune, played by disk drives

  YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk

• 49

  Boot from a 16MB SD card

  Call for guest posts! I'm going to be away for ten days, and Ben and Helen

• 15

  Amy Mather’s week of work experience

  Liz: A few weeks ago, over the Easter holidays, we had Amy Mather, 14 years

• 11

  OTTO: A hackable camera powered by Raspberry Pi

  One of our goals in launching the Raspberry Pi Compute Module was to provide

• 16

  Cambridge Jam: focus on education

  Liz: Last week's Cambridge Raspberry Jam was one of the biggest yet. I asked

• 25

  New RS ad

  RS Components, who, along with Farnell/element 14 make up our licensed

• 24

  PebblyPi smart doorbell

  A quick poll of the office reveals that none of us knows anybody with a

• 8

  Heston, we have a potato.

  Heston Blumenthal's production team got in touch last year to talk to us

• 14

  Boris, the Twitter Dino-Bot

  UK teachers: want two days of free, top-class CPD? Check out Picademy, and

• 29

  Picademy – UK teachers, apply to take part!

  On 14th and 15th April we ran the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for

• 27

  Google Glass, Pi-style

  The good people at Adafruit have a new tutorial up on making a wearable

• 9

  Raspberry Pi spinning wheel

  Cyndi Minister runs The Twisted Purl, a yarn company in Arkansas. She's also

• 19

  Happy second birthday to The MagPi!

  We were amazed to learn that this month's edition represents The MagPi's

• 12

  Living with lag

  Ping...(wait a

• 30

  Celebrating 50 years of BASIC

  On May 1, 1964, Professor John Kemeny ran the first BASIC program from a

April 2014

• 9

  Sous-vide cooking with the Wolfram Language

  Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram Research. We've

• 30

  Magic Mirror

  Michael Teeuw was out shopping with his girlfriend, when he noticed a

• 11

  Minecraft Pi recipe cards to download and keep

  We think Craig Richardson's brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry

• 56

  PiPhone – home-made Raspberry Pi smartphone

  Update, May 6 2014: Dave's now filmed a teardown of the project, because so

• 63

  Vectors from coarse motion estimation

  Liz: Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, has been pointing the

• 32

  Is the toilet free?

  Here at Pi Towers, we are lucky enough to have more toilets than we have

• 143

  Free goodies for good causes from Pimoroni

  Cases and add-ons free to good causes, schools and charities. Apply

• 127

  Preview the upcoming Maynard desktop

  Some of you will be aware that we've been working on a new, more responsive

• 10

  Mudra: a Braille dicta-teacher

  Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastav are second-year students at the Birla

• 13

  Books, the digitising and text-to-speechifying thereof

  A couple of books projects for you today. One is simple, practical and of

• 9

  MagPi issue 22

  I'm about two weeks late to the party on this one - massive apologies to all

• 53

  BitScope Micro

  We met the folks from BitScope some months ago to talk about their plans for

• 22

  New how-to animation – special guest star!

  We've just taken delivery of another video from the lovely guys at

• 59

  Meet Jasper: open-source voice computing

  Meet Jasper. He's like Siri, but much better, in that it's open-source and

• 9

  Easy as Pi Piano

  I'm on the fence about whether or not this is an effective way to learn how

• 509

  Raspberry Pi Compute Module: new product!

  As regular readers will know, it’s been a busy time here at Pi Towers

• 9

  PA Consulting Raspberry Pi Competition

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ngDlclw0 The PA Raspberry Pi

• 29

  Announcing our million-pound education charity fund

  It’s been a busy month for us here at Pi towers, and after the recent

• 158

  Welcome to our new website

  You'll notice that things round here don't look like they used to. This

• 386

  New website design is here!

  As you'll know if you've been following us here and on social media

March 2014

• 85

  Quake III bounty: we have a winner!

  At the end of February, Broadcom announced the release of full documentation

• 29

  Home automation. For your Galaxy-class starship.

  Work-in-progress LCARS interface

• 18

  Automated home brewing

  The office conversation this lunchtime went a bit like this: Me: "Two beer

• 40

  Learning Python with Raspberry Pi

  If you've been round here for any length of time, you've probably heard

• 17

  Smart kegerator

  We first came across kegerators last year: it never ceases to amaze me how

• 16

  Glock around the clockenspiel

  Are you a primary or secondary teacher in the UK? Do you want some free CPD?

• 45

  Using Minecraft: Raspberry Pi Edition to get kids computing

  After a workshop last week, Clive, our Director of Educational Development,

• 33

  RasPiO – new breakout boards from Alex Eames

  Alex Eames started doing amazing things with the Raspberry Pi very shortly

• 20

  DoodleBorg: a three-horsepower robot tank

  PiBorg are an organisation making add-on boards for your Raspberry Pi.

• 20

  Timelapse tutorial from Carrie Anne’s Geek Gurl Diaries

  Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she's

• 95

  New camera mode released

  Liz: you'll notice that this post has no pictures or video. That's because

• 40

  Picademy – Free CPD for Teachers

  **Update 28 March: Entries are now closed. Thanks to everyone who applied,

• 7

  Learning through gaming

  Allen Heard, Head of Computing at Ysgol Bryn Elian in North Wales (that's

• 22

  Digital signal processing with teeny-tiny tap-dancers.

  When we wrote about accelerating Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) on the Pi

• 10

  Trending Vending: Pi-powered custom Oreos

  So you're at SXSW. And you want an up-to-the-minute cookie. What could be

• 36

  Bitcoin farming – on a industrial scale

  Jetlag's grim. As you'll have gathered from Ben's post on Monday, I found

• 25

  Welcome to the newest member of the Raspberry Pi family!

  If you've emailed our info@ address in the last year, spoken to us about

• 9

  Raspberry Pi Projects: a big book by Andrew Robinson and Mike Cook

  Ben here - Liz is currently non-functional due to her body having no idea

• 17

  Blowing in the (fetid subway) wind

  A quick post today: I'm at the airport gate waiting to get on a plane. I

• 7

  MagPi issue 21 – out now!

  Last month's MagPi fundraiser for a Volume 2 binder was a roaring success:

• 20

  A GCSE lesson

  Ben Llewellyn Smith is Head of Computing and ECDL manager at AKS in Lytham

• 35

  A map of your Pi

  A quick post today: I'm pretty behind on work. (I've wasted most of today

• 26

  The Hour of Code and all things educational

  There's been a media brouhaha about coding recently**. The Hour of Code puts

February 2014

• 203

  A birthday present from Broadcom

  Two years ago today*, the Raspberry Pi Model B went on sale, selling 100,000

• 14

  Gameboy cosplay (Pi-powered, naturally)

  We have no details about this other than the video below. (A picture

• 21

  Graphic equaliser

  Our good friends at Adafruit put this project on their Learning System

• 52

  Mission Control desk

  Some parents take the carrot approach to homework enforcement, others the

• 11

  What can you do with a Raspberry Pi?

  Last month we released an animation called What is a Raspberry Pi? which

• 10

  Does your Raspberry Pi belong in a gallery?

  It is a beautiful piece of hardware and I'm sure takes pride of place in

• 14

  Pi-powered T-shirt cannon

  Don't forget to enter our latest competition: win an Adventures in Raspberry

• 134

  Get Carrie Anne’s book for six quid! (And a competition!)

  A lot of you have had huge success in the last few months using our very own

• 11

  The MagPi – Kickstart the Volume 2 Binder for 432 pages of Pi goodness!

  The MagPi magazine is the single thing to have come out of the Raspberry Pi

• 16

  Vernier sensors and the Wolfram Language

  Here's another guest post from Allison at Wolfram Research. Today we're

• 15

  Jayme Gisbourne’s Porta-Pi

  Last Friday night I spotted a tweet with a picture of a Raspberry Pi running

• 18

  More on Raspberry Pi in Africa

  One of the biggest (and nicest) surprises for us over the last two years has

• 26

  GitHub goes to school

  Yesterday, GitHub announced a new initiative to help students, teachers and

• 1

  Another Scratch alpha from Tim Rowledge

  Last month we posted an alpha release of Tim Rowledge's port of Scratch to a

• 29

  Q&A with Gordon Hollingworth our Director of Software

  Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, was in the office recently

• 34

  Code Club Pro: a training programme to support primary school teachers

  From September 2014 Computing will be a subject in its own right in English

• 9

  MagPi issue 20 – your free Raspberry Pi magazine, out now

  Issue 20, February 2014, of the excellent MagPi Magazine was released this

• 7

  Raspberry Jamboree, Manchester 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2014

  The 2014 Raspberry Jamboree is coming up at the end of February. Last year

• 19

  Modeling Physics with the Wolfram Language

  Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram Research. Today

• 45

  8086tiny: a free PC XT-compatible virtual machine/emulator written in C

  Last week we discovered an outstanding open source project which worked out

• 25

  Ryanteck motor controller now available on Adafruit

  Ryan Walmsley is one of our favourite people. Towards the end of last year

January 2014

• 24

  NOOBS SD cards back in the Swag Store!

  The 8GB pre-flashed NOOBS SD cards we had in the Swag Store sold out pretty

• 17

  GPS-tracking helmet cam

  Martin O'Hanlon's a familiar name in these parts, especially for fans of

• 87

  Accelerating Fourier transforms using the GPU

  Andrew Holme is well known to regular blog readers, as the creator of the

• 10

  Laika Explorer: what it’s like to build a Raspberry Pi accessory startup

  A lot of companies are building Raspberry Pi add-ons - Raspberry Pi

• 26

  Music hack of the decade: Panflute Hero!

  Jhonny Göransson was part of the team that made what's simply the daftest

• 25

  Dave Hunt’s time-lapse touchscreen controller

  Regular readers will know Dave Hunt well. He's behind some of the...no,

• 30

  Ooh, BETTy (look, it’s Sunday morning, it’s the best I can do)

  The RPF Education Team is just back from BETT, the education technology

• 5

  Forums are back

  We've rolled the forum database tables back to a snapshot taken around 2am

• 33

  Forums down this weekend for maintenance

  We've had an issue this afternoon with some corruption in the forums

• 34

  David Cameron talks Pi at Davos

  We've just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron's speech to the World

• 33

  A sneak peek at some content from our new website

  As you may have gathered from large hints we've been dropping, we're partway

• 63

  A video that made us cry

  A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt

• 44

  Give us your best (Mathematica) one-liner

  Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram, which is part of a

• 15

  Triviabox: a DIY quiz show setup

  Sandy Walsh thought it'd be cool to host a trivia night in his living room.

• 22

  Limelight: who needs a Steam Machine when you have a Pi?

  I don't think there's anyone here at Pi Towers who doesn't use Steam for PC

• 24

  Chocolate Joy Jacket

  A quick post today: I'm in Cardiff with Lorna, who you may have spoken to if

• 64

  Poster competition update #2

  Update 21/1/14: Thanks for all of your entries, we've been overwhelmed by

• 24

  Touchscreen point-and-shoot, from Adafruit

  LadyAda from Adafruit is one of my very favourite people. We have a

• 54

  Poster competition update #1

  We're moving offices at the moment (a long and agonising process which is

• 7

  Test Tim’s new Scratch alpha

  Over the last year, we've seen big improvements in Scratch performance on

• 62

  A pure Python interface for the camera module: meet picamera!

  Accessing the camera module directly from Python

• 62

  Buy an 8GB NOOBS SD card for £5

  When we announced our $40 Model B plus SD card bundle back in August, a lot

• 38

  Wooden tablet: Michael Castor’s PiPad

  I've actually held this project in my very own sweaty little hands: Michael

• 12

  Automated decanter

  I had mail from Jürgen Huber at Logi.cals, an Austrian software firm, who

• 35

  Welcome Dave!

  Carrie Anne wasn't our only new starter on Monday: we've also welcomed Dave

• 17

  Coping with Christmas – a guest post from our web hosts at Mythic Beasts

  Liz: Here's a guest post from Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts, our brilliant

• 25

  News from Carrie Anne Philbin

  Carrie Anne's end-of-year edition of Geek Gurl Diaries had some news in it

• 13

  Mathematica and the Wolfram Language on Raspberry Pi

  Have you been staring at the Mathematica and Wolfram Language icons on your

• 9

  Happy New Year!

  We're taking the day off today, but if you're thirsty for more about

December 2013

• 16

  Bioscope – old-timey-fy your movies

  We met Jon Stam at a Maker Faire last year. With Simon de Bakker, he's

• 23

  No More Woof

  Dog telepathy

• 16

  Where do they make balloons?

  Update: First aerial pictures are coming back from CLOUDY now. See

• 68

  NOOBS v1.3.3 available

  If you got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas, check out this post for some

• 38

  Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on!

  If you're here because you got a Raspberry Pi for Christmas, then Happy

• 135

  Web browser beta

  Update: Several commenters note that installing this beta can break various

• 24

  Christmas delivery: we’ve got Pis and kits in the Swag Store!

  Update: And that's it for our UK readers. It's Maplin or nothing now. Folks

• 40

  Gert plays Santa Claus

  Gert, creator of the Gertboard and Gertduino, and all-round good egg, has

• 6

  Raspberry Pi karaoke machine

  True story: when we were in Tokyo for the Big Tokyo Raspberry Jam back in

• 10

  Sleepi

  The trusty alarm clock is a great tool for little kids who insist on getting

• 28

  Jack the (DVD) Ripper

  The shelves in my living room are groaning under the weight of DVD boxed

• 30

  Frozen Pi: bullet-time photography with the Raspberry Pi

  If you were one of the people following us on Twitter a couple of Saturdays

• 10

  Start gaming with Shea Silverman, and add a startup animation to your Pi

  Under 18 and in the UK? Check out our Christmas giveaway! We first met

• 128

  Kids: we’re giving away 2000 Pi kits for your class, or for your home projects!

  Please note this competition is now closed. You met Lance Howarth, the

• 19

  Pi-powered Ping Pong Pursuit

  Will Jessop is a systems administrator for 37signals and he runs the North

• 16

  Gordon and Eben talk Pi (and other things)

  Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, has been Googling himself,

• 38

  Official Raspberry Pi User Guide: 2nd edition out now!

  The Raspberry Pi User Guide, co-authored by our very own Eben Upton with

• 10

  MagPi issue 19 – your free Raspberry Pi magazine, out now

  December's MagPi was released this morning, and it's full of Christmas

• 58

  Amazon drones, hax0r3d

  Have you seen all that stuff in the news about Amazon's proposed new

• 25

  Linux Voice

  I had mail yesterday from Andrew Gregory, a Linux journalist we've really

• 4

  Movember wrap up

  Well, that was a very long 30 days for both of us. Thanks to the following

• 27

  Welcome Ben!

  We're welcoming a new member to the team at Pi Towers today. Some of you

November 2013

• 12

  OpenSprinkler Pi

  I've been meaning to write about this for ages: I hate watering the garden.

• 25

  Movember: two days to go!

  You might remember that Eben has been taking part in Movember this month,

• 20

  Carrie Anne Philbin’s Adventures in Raspberry Pi

  We are huge, giant, enormous fans of Carrie Anne Philbin. Carrie Anne's a

• 50

  Home-made CNC laser engraver

  Before you go any further, please take a minute to consider your eyes. You

• 13

  Twitter-triggered photobooth

  A guest post today: I'm just off a plane and can barely string a sentence

• 51

  Introducing GertDuino

  Gert van Loo is one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's earliest volunteers. We

• 135

  The Wolfram Language and Mathematica on Raspberry Pi, for free

  One of the best things about working on Raspberry Pi has been the

• 27

  Kano – Kickstart a Pi kit for beginners

  We first met Alex Klein shortly after we'd launched the Raspberry Pi, when

• 18

  Ryanteck’s RTK-000-001 motor controller – robotics on a budget

  We first met Ryan Walmsley when he was fifteen, back in May 2012. He'd been

• 108

  TWO MILLION!

  It took us almost exactly a year to sell the first million Raspberry Pis.

• 15

  PiePal: order a pizza at the push of a button

  Here's a Friday night quickie (no, we're not nipping off to the pub

• 24

  Pi 3D scanner: a DIY body scanner

  The blog's rather late today but definitely worth the wait we think. It's an

• 32

  FM Stream: broadcasting local radio to the internet

  The Raspberry Pi is being used increasingly in professional products and

• 8

  Gesture detecting air guitar glove with added head banging goodness

  Clive: We like wearable computers; we like music; but most of all we like

• 16

  The Lotter brothers reach Cairo, first ARM/Raspberry Pi workshop in Africa a success!

  The Lotter brothers have reached Cairo on their epic overland trip to South

• 20

  Upstagram – live photos from a tiny house floating over Paris

  This is just gorgeous. A hand-made, tiny version of the house from Pixar's

• 37

  Steve Wozniak on the Raspberry Pi

  BBC Click interviewed Steve Wozniak this week, and he had a few words to say

• 19

  Lincoln Heard, Minibeasts and Raspberry Pi

  I often get asked how old the youngest kids we see using the Pi are. A lot

• 22

  Build a universal translator

  Dave Conroy has done something pretty exceptional with his Raspberry Pi:

• 73

  Movember 2013: look! Eben can grow hair on at least one part of his head!

  This year, Eben's participating in Movember, and growing a moustache to

• 7

  MagPi issue 18 – out now!

  Mail from the folks at the MagPi, the free to download magazine for the

• 84

  HDMIPi – a Kickstarter from RasPi.TV

  Alex Eames runs RasPi.TV, which we think is probably the best of all the Pi

October 2013

• 24

  A visitor at Pi Towers

  Today we've all been running around like squirrels preparing for winter,

• 3

  Raspberry-flavoured haunted house

  Remember Amelia and Oliver? Earlier this year, aged seven and five, they

• 56

  What’s that blue thing doing here?

  So your new Pi NoIR has plopped through the letterbox, and you've unpacked

• 2

  DIY Haunted Mansion portrait

  Welcome, foolish mortals. I'm with Cory Doctorow on this one: the Haunted

• 54

  Pi NoIR infrared camera: now available!

  Pi NoIR, the infrared version of our camera board, is available to purchase

• 16

  Creeptacular face-tracking Halloween portrait

  You've got a week to build this portrait, whose eyes follow you around the

• 24

  Radio Lollipop – children’s hospital radio

  Back in April, Stewart Priest from Glasgow got in touch with me about an

• 7

  Yorick, the talking skull

  I had an email on Monday morning from someone whose job title is "Witch

• 12

  Blue Pi Thinking from the University of York

  The University of York asked if we could send someone up to judge

• 17

  The world’s largest Raspberry Pi display?

  David Whale, a STEM ambassador and all-round good egg, mailed me last week

• 60

  Pi NoIR – the first photo; Eben at GigaOM

  I've got a sample of Pi NoIR, the camera board variant with no infrared

• 233

  Infrared camera – you asked us, so we’re making them!

  You may have heard rumours about something we're calling Pi NoIR (Pi, no

• 19

  Email of the month: worshipping Pis in Kathmandu

  I just received an email from Nepal. Sakar is a member of Karkhana, a

• 8

  Ratsberry Pi – scampering Halloween rats

  A quicky today - I've been running from meeting to meeting all day and have

• 78

  Turn your Pi into a low-cost HD surveillance cam

  Local government CCTV is awful, and it's everywhere in the UK. But I'm much

• 12

  Sonic Pi tutorial with Miss Philbin

  Carrie Anne Philbin is the teacher we all wish we'd had. If you've been

• 69

  Get a Model A and a camera board for $40

  We've talked before about how the camera board and the Model A are natural

• 7

  The trick or treat greeter

  Do you have any Halloween projects you'd like to share? Get them to us

• 55

  1.75 million sold so far – and 1 million made in the UK

  We've reached a bit a landmark. As you'll know if you've been following us

• 11

  Cave Story

  Dave "Davespice" Honess, one of our indefatigable forum mods (a crack team

• 21

  Clive on The Daily Politics

  It's been a BBC-y week this week. Look East dropped in a few days ago, and

• 2

  The MagPi issue 17, out now

  October's edition of The MagPi, the Raspberry Pi community magazine, which

• 14

  OCR MOOC – new materials now available

  A very short, but very important post today (I'd write more, but I have to

• 22

  Broadcom MASTERS

  A short one today: I'm in Washington DC at Broadcom MASTERS, with the kids

September 2013

• 71

  XBMC performance demo

  One of the areas we're putting a lot of work into is XBMC performance -

• 114

  New Raspbian release, and NOOBS v1.3 goes gold

  Update: Rob has now added a "NOOBS Lite" option to the downloads page. NOOBS

• 143

  Oracle Java on Raspberry Pi

  One of our longstanding goals has been for Raspberry Pi to ship with a

• 42

  Welcome Lance!

  As you've probably noticed, Raspberry Pi is a rather unusual organisation.

• 26

  Sonic Pi – a free music and computing resource for teachers, and for the rest of us

  Carrie Anne Philbin, an absolutely inspirational CS teacher of the sort I

• 8

  2013 UK Beaver Computing Competition

  An introduction to computational thinking for 10-18 year olds

• 22

  Introduction to the Raspberry Pi: free online course in Spanish starts October 14th

  Universidad Galileo (Galileo University) in Guatemala have launched a free,

• 80

  Be a NOOBS v1.3 beta tester!

  Updated to add: We've had some issues accepting comments for this post

• 9

  Halloween costumes: Doc Brown

  Halloween's a little way off yet, but here in the USA, preparations are in

• 6

  LinuxCon keynote

  The video of Eben's LinuxCon keynote has just been made available: enjoy. If

• 16

  LinuxCon keynote, Maker Faire NYC, Cambridge GCSE Computing news

  You'll notice I'm posting quite late today: it's because I'm in the US for

• 37

  Google Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi

  Apologies for the late post today—I started playing about with Coder this

• 12

  Feeder Tweeter

  This is hands down the best bird feeder project we've seen yet. I got an

• 14

  Akkie, and the 101 things you can do with a CD-ROM drive’s eject function

  I met Akira Ouchi - or Akkie, as he prefers to be known (his site's in

• 29

  RaspyFi – a distro for music lovers

  RaspyFi was brought to our attention a few days ago: it's a distro designed

• 29

  Electronics Weekly visits the Pi factory: video

  Electronics Weekly dropped in to the Pi factory in Pencoed, South Wales, did

• 108

  PiHub – a robust powered hub, made especially for your Raspberry Pi

  Here's Pimoroni's latest. We love Pimoroni. Their history as a

• 21

  Waterproofing your timelapse rig

  You might remember the post we wrote about BerryCam, a way to operate your

• 10

  Bitcoin operated pool table

  A couple of weeks back, Stuart Kerr from Liberty Games mailed me to let me

• 29

  BerryCam: use your Raspberry Pi camera board with your iPhone

  We know that a lot of you have iPhones - and there are some very useful

• 11

  Afghanistan project: double your money update

  I've spoken to the board of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and I'm very

• 38

  Help fund computing labs for girls in Afghanistan

  Will Goldie is a Boy Scout in California, working on his Eagle project. It's

• 8

  MagPi issue 16: out today!

  There are a few changes at the MagPi, the free community magazine about the

August 2013

• 22

  Pi Weekly: a free email newsletter

  Back in June, Raspberry Pi superfan Ryan Walmsley and Manchester

• 24

  Index Award, and Rob’s talk from Science City in Kansas City

  First up, we've got a bit of fantastic news today: we won an Index Award

• 12

  Tudor theatre, 21st century technology

  This summer, Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London mounted a production of

• 32

  World’s smallest Mac (clue: it’s a Pi)

  A short post today: I'm running around getting ready to go to the airport.

• 55

  Babbage’s big jump: the aftermath

  If you were following the live feed and our live tweets on Saturday, you'll

• 39

  Vote Pi!

  We've been nominated for the People's Choice Award in next week's Index

• 70

  Ted Bull Stratos: Babbage’s leap of faith

  Liz: Today we've got a guest post from our old high-altitude-ballooning

• 4

  Wearables: Google Glass, and something quite different

  Last week, Adafruit published a tutorial on how to get Google Glass to

• 26

  AirPi – the next step

  Liz: When Clive and I are asked what schools project in the past year has

• 16

  Nintendo audio – on analogue instruments

  I don't know much about this project. I spotted it earlier today on Twitter,

• 16

  Dewarping 360° images from the Pi camera board

  Katherine Scott, newly equipped with a Raspberry Pi camera board, was

• 5

  Fireball Pinball HD

  We had some requests from people watching the video of What Gordon Did On

• 13

  This is your brain on Pi

  We've only just spotted Mens Amplio, an Indiegogo project which met its

• 4

  Video: Rob Bishop talks to MAKE

  Rob's in the US at the moment for a few weeks, covering the bits of the

• 12

  Gordon Hollingworth talks to the Orlando Sentinel

  Dr Gordon Hollingworth, our Head of Software, has been in Orlando visiting

• 19

  Raspberry Pi in Turkey

  Up until now, it's been difficult for people in Turkey to buy a Raspberry

• 41

  Raspberry Pi Minecraft server

  The first question people usually ask upon meeting me is, "Can you ride a

• 2

  Minecraft Snake arcade machine

  You thought that we'd finished, didn't you? You thought that I'd gone to bed

• 33

  Learning Python using Codecademy and Minecraft Pi

  I met Craig Richardson at Newcastle Maker Faire and we got to talking about

• 6

  Monday is Minecraft day. Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are!

  [caption id="attachment_4603" align="alignnone" width="640"] Just another

• 18

  OCR Raspberry Pi recipe card competition — win stuff just by thinking!

  You may be familiar with the Raspberry Pi recipe cards that we developed

• 13

  Guest post #5: Raspberry Pi tutorials for complete beginners

  When Henry asked us for a camera module to write a beginners' tutorial we

• 24

  Guest Blog #4: Excitement in Computer Programming

  Our very own Matthew Bennett talks about the last two years with Raspberry

• 70

  Buy a Pi, get an 8GB NOOBS SD card for $5

  By now I hope many of you have had a chance to play with NOOBS, the new out

• 19

  2nd Raspberry Pi US Roadshow is go!

  Here's Rob's final route and itinerary for his heroic 2nd Raspberry Pi US

• 35

  Guests blog #3: This kind of sums it up for me….

  I've spent much of today reading through the delightfully turgid folder of

• 16

  MagPi 15 is out and it’s a good ‘un

  MagPi 15 is out now. As usual it's so full of Raspberry Pi goodness that I

• 38

  Guest post #2: Peeping Tom in the toilet with Raspberry Pi

  When Jeroen Danckers sent us a blog post with that title he was on to a

• 7

  Laika: a hardware control platform for the Raspberry Pi

  Laika is a modular add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that allows control of

July 2013

• 18

  Camera board documentation

  James Hughes, last seen at the helm of a VW Camper Van heading for Dorset,

• 25

  Nicholas, some breadboard and a passcode

  Nicholas Harris is 11 years old, and he's been learning to code with a

• 32

  The Pi Pong clock

  First of all, thank you to everybody who sponsored us on yesterday's London

• 91

  Carputers – some ideas to get you started

  We are firm believers in the idea that computing starts to get really

• 7

  Clive at Activate

  Clive Beale, our Director of Educational Development, was at the Guardian's

• 44

  Pato surveillance system

  Pato is a little green bird who Jorge Rancé found, injured, on the street

• 48

  Raspberry Ripple ice cream on the Gadget Show

  Full disclosure: I wasn't watching TV last night. I was sitting in the

• 14

  Call for guest posts!

  I'm off on my summer holidays next week, so Clive (poor Clive) will be

• 12

  Notes from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam

  On Saturday, the half of Cambridgeshire that wasn't busy footling about in

• 48

  High Altitude Ballooning, sixth-form style

  We've been very keen to see schools set up high altitude ballooning (HAB)

• 8

  Fred and Ernest are en route!

  A few days ago, Fred and Ernest Lotter dropped into the office to pick up

• 27

  Guest post: Happy birthday, Pimoroni!

  Here's a guest post from our favourite Sheffieldites. For us, one of the

• 6

  Lincoln University’s digital garden, and its gold medal

  At this year's Chelsea Flower Show, Lincoln University's digital garden,

• 10

  The GWR Locomotive Sketchpad

  The what, you say? Easy. It's a sketchpad. For Great Western Railway

• 10

  Join us on the London to Cambridge bike ride for Breakthrough Breast Cancer

  Every year, Eben raises sponsorship money and does the 75-mile London to

• 28

  Presented without comment

  Thank you to Marius Krabset, who made this using Blender. It's given

• 15

  PyPy 2.1 beta released

  Back in May, we mentioned that we'd been sponsoring the development of the

• 30

  The Raspberry Pi Microwave

  Thanks to everyone who sent me a link to this today. Nathan Broadbent has

• 24

  Introducing our Artist in Residence, Rachel Rayns!

  Liz: We talk a lot here about making, designing, and how computing is just

• 6

  From FishPi to LittleBox – a Kickstarter to turn your Pi into a desktop PC

  Remember Greg Holloway, the mind behind FishPi? He did a guest post for us

• 8

  PiPlanter: a plant growth monitor

  Much more than just irrigation

• 34

  Pi synthesisers

  On the road back from Wales this weekend, we listened to Liz's Playlist for

• 23

  PrivateEyePi – a DIY home alarm system

  A big thank you to Recantha for spotting this one: PrivateEyePi is a project

• 57

  American Pi Hackspace Tour, part the second

  Rob Bishop, our developer-evangelist, spent some of last summer visiting US

• 115

  Bend Gordon’s ear

  Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, is saddened that I called him

• 16

  Chess. Bare metal assembly language chess.

  Pootling around the Raspberry Pi forums late last night, I found something

• 12

  Mike-roscopy

  Element14 recently held a competition for the best picture taken with the

• 12

  The MagPi issue 14, out today!

  Your free copy of The MagPi, the magazine created by the Raspberry Pi

June 2013

• 55

  Macro filming and photography with the camera board

  Although the lens on the Raspberry Pi camera board is nominally fixed-focus,

• 18

  Pi-Rex: a bark-activated door opener for dogs

  Here's a weekend project from Dave Hunt for dog owners whose best friends

• 10

  Ziphius, the Pi-powered aquatic drone, now on Kickstarter

  We first came across Ziphius when Rob Bishop went to do some talks and

• 26

  Kinograph: preserving 1920s movies with a Raspberry Pi

  A great motivator for us in developing the Raspberry Pi was bringing down

• 18

  Eben has a shiny thing

  We're very proud to be able to announce today that Eben is one of the

• 73

  A preview of the new Cambridge GCSE Computing Online!

  We get a lot of emails saying: "Why aren't you working on any schools stuff?

• 35

  PiMiner Bitcoin mining machine

  Email arrived from LadyAda on Friday. In between the usual advice about good

• 22

  A new trustee

  We'd like to warmly welcome Louis Glass to the Raspberry Pi Foundation's

• 29

  Rapiro – the cutest robot you’ll ever meet, now on Kickstarter

  A new Kickstarter was launched this morning: check out the video first, and

• 77

  Not that sort of Java

  Back when we moved into our offices, I tweeted about the fact that we were

• 5

  Raspberry Jam, Lilongwe, Malawi

  Jam everywhere!

• 21

  Facial recognition: OpenCV on the camera board

  I've been talking to Pierre Raufast for a little while now about his efforts

• 65

  Onion Pi: Foil the NSA and Prism with a Tor proxy

  Some housekeeping first. As you can see, I'm upright and typing again.

• 133

  Liz is poorly

  Update 12 June: Liz continues to recover, but I'm still not letting her near

• 17

  BBC Springwatch – and a Pi

  It's 7.35pm here, and if you're reading this now in the UK, put down the

• 43

  Guest post: A Pi lab in rural Ghana

  Liz: This post comes from Heather and Trevor Grant, who work with a

• 29

  Astrophotography with the camera board

  Cristos Vasilas from Dash One, a lover of astronomy and electronics, has

• 220

  Introducing the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS)

  If you're a beginner with a Raspberry Pi, things just got a whole lot

• 20

  MagPi issue 13: out now, and free to download!

  Team MagPi have wiped their bleary eyes after celebrating their first

• 80

  New Raspbian, Debian and Arch Linux images

  Update: copied Alex's summary of the changes to Raspbian from the comments

May 2013

• 9

  Zoological Society of London: saving rhinos with the Pi

  We've been talking a bit about London Zoo's efforts with the camera board to

• 14

  Aberystwyth Sailbot

  SailBot 2013 International Robotic Sailing Regatta is a robotic sailing

• 31

  Wired UK – in shops on Thursday

  We're getting back to the UK late on Thursday. First stop: a Heathrow branch

• 43

  Reddit: what do people use their Pis for?

  A thread about Raspberry Pi ended up on the front page of Reddit today, and

• 58

  IR filter shenanigans

  There's a question we've been asked very frequently about the camera board.

• 19

  Back by popular demand: keyboard and laptop stickers!

  New in the Swag Shop: big vinyl stickers, just the right size for hiding any

• 134

  Wayland preview

  Update: Daniel's blog post here provides some more info, including how to

• 24

  Raspberry Pi car computer

  [caption id="attachment_4065" align="alignnone" width="300"] Raspbian

• 38

  Long term, deep water, satellite connected ocean monitoring system

  Conservation, hackspaces and Raspberry Pis. And sharks. How could this not

• 4

  Raspberry Jam at the National STEM Centre York, Saturday 8th June 2013

  A post from Mr Raspberry Jam himself, Alan O'Donohoe.  This one promises

• 11

  Maker Faire Google Hangout with Eben

  We'll be talking more later this week about the New Out Of the Box

• 12

  New in the Swag Shop: recycled CD case pencils!

  These feel lovely when you sharpen them, have a beauteous Raspberry Pi logo

• 14

  Raspberry Pi for Dummies: sample chapter

  If you're wondering about introducing your kids to Scratch, but aren't quite

• 21

  Frederik and Ernest’s Europe – Middle East – Africa roadtrip

  Frederik and Ernest Lotter from Blue Horizon Embedded Systems in South

• 110

  Welcome to the Swag Shop!

  You may have noticed that a little while ago, we quietly withdrew Raspberry

• 31

  Camera board project: time lapse video

  Our friends at DesignSpark have produced a really beautiful time-lapse video with one of our new camera boards

• 292

  Camera board available for sale!

  The camera boards are now available for order! You can buy one from RS

• 37

  Guest post from Mythic Beasts: how we dealt with those DDoS attacks

  Do you remember the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks this

• 27

  Homemade GPS receiver

  A slightly abbreviated post today - we've just driven 380 miles to Phoenix

• 27

  Guest post from DesignSpark: Oxford Raspberry Jam

  Here's a guest post from our friend Pete Wood at RS Component's community

• 29

  Techradar compares five Raspberry Pi operating systems

  There's a really fantastic piece in Techradar and Linux Format, going into

• 8

  PyPy on Pi

  While we love all programming languages equally here at the Foundation, we

• 85

  Troubleshooting: so easy a ten-year-old can do it

  The ten-year-old in question is Jessica, Gordon's daughter, who dropped into

• 10

  Gigapi: a Raspberry Pi rig for gigapixel photography

  We've seen a number of photographers who have taken to the Pi as a way to

• 26

  Tokyo: Big Raspberry Jam 2013

  Eben and I are going to be out of the UK for much of the rest of May, doing

• 6

  Live motion tracking

  It is a bank holiday, and we are all quite...cheerful, post company

• 21

  A very happy first birthday to The MagPi!

  The MagPi is a free magazine made by Raspberry Pi fans for Raspberry Pi

• 14

  Blast off game

  Here's another little snippet of video from Mike Cook. This game is one of

• 25

  Kegerface – for all your beer stocking needs

  Kegerface is a digital tap list display from SchrodingersDrunk, which you

April 2013

• 21

  Guest post from Khan Academy Lite

  Update: KA Lite dropped us a line to let us know they had a newer version of

• 22

  Raspberry Pi, for all your 50s diner needs

  Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in

• 2

  MAKE and MCM Raspberry Pi Design Competition: the winners!

  MAKE held a Raspberry Pi Design competition with MCM Electronics for

• 14

  Rob, Bacon

  Our very own Justin Bieber, Rob Bishop, was at the world's best-named

• 14

  The Raspberry Pi in scientific research

  The cost implications that come with finding yourself able to buy a computer

• 25

  University of Cambridge Computer Lab 75th anniversary

  We're celebrating today: it's the 75th anniversary of the University of

• 16

  Hackspace security system

  NESIT is the New England Society of Information and Technology

• 26

  Bird photography with a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR

  Tricky things, birds. Even when you've got yourself sorted out with boxes

• 3

  Adafruit WebIDE – new alpha release available

  News from across the pond arrived last night, UK time. Our good friends at

• 24

  Use your desktop or laptop screen and keyboard with your Pi

  Meltwater has come up with a nice little trick which allows you to use your

• 17

  Oliver and Amelia make a bee box

  Oliver is five, and has produced this lovely bee box for school. He did the

• 64

  Raspberry Pi colocation

  Liz: Thor de Regt, from Amsterdam, emailed me back at the start of

• 11

  Meet Babbage the Bear!

  Your votes have been counted: there was a clear winner. Congratulations to

• 3

  Raspberry-VI: accessibility for visually impaired Pi users

  Liz: We've had some really interesting conversations this year with visually

• 136

  Bear deadlock

  We've been choosing bear names for the competition today. A name has been

• 19

  Welcome to the newest member of the team!

  At 9pm this evening, Helen, who manages the Raspberry Pi Facebook and G+

• 5

  Huffington Post video segment on the Pi (and Eben!)

  When Eben was at PyCon last month, he spent some time with the Huffington

• 17

  The Pi balloon: a Swiss mystery

  If you've been wondering what happened to PIE, the Raspberry Pi

• 9

  The Kingdom of Bhutan’s first Pi: a Khan Academy server

  We were chatting to Natasha Lomas from TechCrunch (no relation to our own

• 82

  Guest post: more high altitude ballooning from Dave Akerman

  Liz: Tomorrow, Eben and I are getting up at sparrowfart to go and stand in a

• 21

  Ambilight-alike

  Watch the video first. We'll talk about it under the jump. So, then.

• 45

  500,000 Pis in Wales

  As you'll know if you're a regular reader of this website, production of the

• 29

  Raspberry Pi GSM gateway

  If you travel a lot, you'll be used to absurd roaming charges when you use

• 10

  Raspberry Pi in schools: discussion

  This video of the closing panel discussion from last month's Raspberry

• 4

  Raspberry Pi Magic Mirror

  Here's a somewhat creepy mirror with a disembodied (French) voice, which

• 23

  Pi-powered cat feeder

  Mooncake, the Official Raspberry Pi Cat, is fed biscuits twice a day by an

• 15

  Minecraft in the classroom?

  Last week I ran a short session at Campus London with a roomful of students

• 23

  Video wall

  "What's innovative about a video wall?" I hear you cry. "We've all seen

• 8

  Issue 11 of the MagPi – out now!

  April's MagPi has just been released. As well as all the usual goodies, this

• 42

  Bringing computing to rural Cameroon

  Liz: I was going to post this tomorrow, but it's so good I just couldn't

• 5

  Calibrating a 3D printer with a Raspberry Pi

  Jon Wise mailed Eben last night to tell us about a 3D printing project he's

• 491

  Competition: name our bear!

  In about a month's time, we're going to be launching a brand-new range of

• 13

  Kindleberry Pi the second

  Did you get a nice shiny new Paperwhite Kindle to replace your old one? (I

March 2013

• 16

  Charlotte Latin girls give a TEDx talk

  I met Tom Dubick about a year ago at Hackerspace Charlotte, NC. He teaches

• 11

  Iain and Seb from Creative Coding interview Eben

  What were you doing for the Bank Holiday on Friday? Eben cycled 15 miles to

• 26

  Wot no comments?

  As you may have noticed, we're having a bit of trouble with the comments

• 20

  Raspberry Pi for Dummies

  The name Mike Cook echoes around the corridors of Pi Towers every now and

• 6

  Guest post from Code Club: Raspberry Pi factory visit

  Liz: Do you remember those snippets of film from factories they used to show

• 28

  PiUi – control your Pi with your phone

  David Singleton has been laid up with a broken leg, and has taken the

• 0

  DW radio on coding in schools and Pi

  DW Radio in Germany (which is broadcast in the English language) broadcast a

• 38

  Camera competition winners!

  After a lot of swearing and arguing, we have managed to boil down nearly 700

• 47

  OpenELEC 3.0.0 is here!

  It's been a bit of a month for media player news - we just featured the

• 18

  Raspberry Pi Competition Results

  ...

• 6

  San Diego schoolkids and Raspberry Pi

  I was sent some video yesterday from Chris Rosskopf, a teacher at High Tech

• 74

  Latest experiments in improving low-light camera performance

  Thanks

• 54

  Shard Rain Cam

  Willem, from The Secret Batcave in South London, is piqued with irritation

• 26

  Matt Richardson and the world’s smartest bike light

  Our friend Matt from Make (whom I totally failed to hook up with for drinks

• 50

  Creating the camera board – part two

  Liz: here's the second and final part of David Plowman's walk through the

• 144

  Public service announcement!

  We've just had an email from one of our distributors: I have noticed an

• 132

  Creating the camera board

  Liz: We're very close to being able to release the $25 add-on camera board

• 33

  BBC: Cracking the Code

  Last week's Cracking the Code had a segment featuring a very familiar little

• 14

  Eben’s keynote at PyCon

  On Friday, Eben gave the keynote speech at PyCon.

• 21

  Amy’s Game of Life

  Amy Mather is thirteen years old. She made a presentation at last week's

• 12

  Lincoln Heard, age 3, and his Raspberry Pi

  Meet Lincoln, who is three years old. He'd like to show you how to set up

• 9

  RasPlex: Plex for your Pi

  If you're a media centre user of the Raspberry Pi, you might want to check

• 25

  Science Museum Great British Innovation

  The Science Museum has shortlisted the Raspberry Pi in its competition to

• 9

  Livebots

  This is brilliant. Livebots is a project which allows you to control a robot

• 10

  Flag-waving, without use of arm muscles

  Eben met Alex from RasPi.tv earlier this week, and was given this rather

• 50

  X-rays! (No specs required)

  It's March 14 (3.14): happy Pi Day, everybody! Steve Purchase, a dentist,

• 32

  Time lapse video, for art and for science

  Dave Hunt (a familiar name in these parts) has been working on perfecting

• 42

  Reuters visits the Raspberry Pi factory

  This piece of news footage is all about how the Raspberry Pi you own is made

• 21

  3D parametric plotter

  This video from Benedek93 is a little slow to get going, but it's well

• 46

  Abattoir! A topical Scratch game.

  Martin O'Hanlon from Stuff About Code (you might recall Thursday's post

• 45

  The view from Gordon’s helmet

  Liz: if you haven't entered our contest to win a pre-production camera

• 16

  Hacking the Minecraft world

  If you're a Minecraft fan and a Pi owner, you've probably already downloaded

• 35

  Recantha’s only gone and made a tricorder.

  I've been waiting for...ooh, just over a year, for someone to do this.

• 30

  MUD Pi

  Readers of a certain age are in for a shot of delicious nostalgia today.

• 135

  Win a pre-production camera board!

  We've sent the first camera boards to production, and we're expecting to be

• 5

  The MagPi, issue 10

  There's a new MagPi out: download it for free over at www.themagpi.com. This

• 52

  Blue Pi!

  To celebrate our first anniversary, RS Components, one of our two main

• 21

  Bits and bobs for Sunday

  Pimoroni's first anniversary competition has ended, and the entries have

• 74

  Happy birthday to us!

  Today’s a very special day for us here at Raspberry Pi. It’s the first

February 2013

• 9

  Pideas

  Quick housekeeping note: thanks for all the kind birthday wishes! We're

• 18

  Super-duper special Pimoroni competition

  We first met Paul Beech in 2011, when he won a competition we were running

• 5

  Raspberry Jamboree

  The first ever Raspberry Jamboree is being held on March 9 in Manchester,

• 6

  Pi Matrix

  A very quick post: I'm about to run out of the door to meet TechCrunch at

• 25

  Emma’s second-grade poster project

  Emma is in the second grade (7-8 year olds). And she's already well on her

• 10

  Connecting people in remote areas – with a Pi

  Liz: I've been hoping someone would document a project like this for a while

• 47

  MRI image analysis

  Liz: Today's guest post comes from Matt Hall at UCL. Call me easily

• 6

  RISC OS South West show and Raspberry Jam – tomorrow

  If you're in the South West of England and you're at a loose end tomorrow,

• 34

  SenseBoard

  Liz: Another day, another expansion board. Here's a guest post from John

• 21

  Meltwater’s RGB LED libraries lesson

  Meltwater (of MagPi fame) has been working on some affordable teaching

• 69

  Raspberry Leaf

  Dr Simon Monk (who has written a book on the Pi and Python - check it out on

• 66

  Add to our demo table!

  We're still settling into the new offices (we're using Gordon's phone as a

• 8

  RasPi.tv goes whackadoodle with a Gertboard and a Wiimote

  Alex Eames from RasPi.tv has really outdone himself this time: he's using a

• 15

  BBC Click: UK hackspaces and the Pi

  We saw a lovely segment today on the BBC's technology news programme, Click,

• 96

  Americans! Want a visit from Eben at your hackspace next week?

  Eben is doing some work on the west coast of the US until Wednesday, then

• 30

  BBC Wales Science Cafe broadcast from the Pi factory

  BBC Radio Wales' Science Cafe programme this week came from the Sony factory

• 39

  Raspbmc – final version released

  News for all you media-player types from Sam Nazarko, the terrifyingly young

• 12

  LadyAda, fireside with President Obama

  On Thursday, our friend LadyAda, owner of Adafruit and Entrepreneur

• 16

  Circadian lighting

  Jet lag has broken my brain. I spent the night in a special extended edition

• 69

  Minecraft – it’s here!

  OK - I said I wasn't going to post again until I was back in the UK, but I

• 14

  Pete reports from Campus Party, São Paulo

  Pete Lomas, the Raspberry Pi's hardware designer and all-round good egg, has

• 31

  Facebook!

  We've bent to popular demand. A lot of you - particularly our younger

• 10

  Music hacks: guitar effects, and an electronic tuner

  Regular readers will know that I'm a particular sucker for musical hackery

• 17

  Video from Chesterton Community College

  A short video from last week's announcement of Google's $1m grant for

• 84

  We’ve got offices!

  You probably didn't realise this, but up until now, we haven't had an office

• 147

  Raspberry Pi camera module sneak peek, and Model A unboxing

  Of course, Model A is not the only new bit of hardware we're releasing in

• 115

  Model A now for sale in Europe – buy one today!

  RS Components and Premier Farnell/element14 have Model A Raspberry Pis in

• 15

  MagPi issue 9

  Here's this month's MagPi - my favourite Manhattanite, LadyAda, is the cover

• 7

  New York Times article and video

  Eben and I flew to the US yesterday, and bought a copy of the New York Times

• 101

  Red Pi at night

  Sad news for collectors: unless you're in China, you won't be able to get

January 2013

• 14

  No Starch Press discounts for Pi users (now 40% off – see below for update)

  A few notices: if you're at BETT this week, come to Stand B240 to meet one

• 58

  Computer Science added to EBacc

  If you’re at BETT this week, come over to Stand B240 to meet one of the

• 6

  Voyage: an interactive art installation

  If you're at BETT this week, come over to Stand B240 to meet one of the

• 36

  Introducing a new(ish) face

  Today's grant from Google (if you have't read the post about it yet, go and

• 116

  15,000 Raspberry Pis for UK schools – thanks Google!

  Today's been a bit unlike most Tuesdays at the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

• 9

  Rob Bishop at the IET

  Want to spend an hour with Rob (today described by a Pi-owner as a "tech

• 51

  Banana Phone

  The Monday Morning Three-Minute-Hate is a time to remember all those things

• 15

  NetBSD is here!

  In last week's FreeBSD post, we linked to an early version of Nick Hudson's

• 21

  In-depth interview with Eben

  Telecom TV interviewed Eben, in their Executive Insight segment. I won't

• 35

  OpenArena for Raspberry Pi

  It's really been interesting watching the Pi Store fill up with content.

• 16

  Judd would like a treat.

  Presented without comment, because it's perfect as it is. Thanks to John

• 69

  Eben’s desk

  Lifehacker readers will have spotted that yesterday's "This is How I Work"

• 12

  Raspberry Jam, Francophone-style

  Here's a guest post from Dr William Bell. Will works at CERN, and has been

• 21

  Assembled Gertboards available

  Farnell have just announced that they have stock of assembled

• 13

  The Quite Rubbish Clock

  "Quite Rubbish" is the maker's assessment, not ours. We thought this was

• 1

  Lifehacker: a beginner’s guide

  Lifehacker are publishing a series this week on DIY with your Raspberry Pi

• 51

  FreeBSD is here!

  Update: A more recent version of Nick Hudson's NetBSD image (mentioned

• 21

  Bilingual R2D2

  Sadly, I don't have any more information on this project besides what you

• 1

  BETT 2013

  Are you going to BETT this year? BETT (Jan 30—Feb 2) is the UK's annual

• 50

  Raspbian Chameleon remix

  This is one for you retro gamers: a Raspbian remix from Carles Oriol that

• 24

  Focus-stacking with Raspberry Pi for macro photography

  Dave Hunt is on a bit of a roll at the moment. Not content with having

• 9

  ZDNet interview

  We've been looking forward to the publication of this interview. Nick Heath,

• 8

  Charity auction results

  We'd like to say a huge thank you to everybody who participated in our

• 20

  Coffee!

  Coffee and computing go hand in hand. The world's first live streaming

• 14

  Pi-A-Sketch

  Francois Dion is someone I exchange emails with every now and then. He's the

• 19

  Single-button scan-to-email

  Networked scanners are another one of those things that are simply

• 2

  Friday grab bag

  Adafruit Web IDE First up, Adafruit's Raspberry Pi Web IDE is now in

• 29

  Media streaming without Air Play

  Just before the New Year, we saw a lot of links in the tech press to a very

• 34

  Radio-4-Matic

  Update, Jan 12: Cargo Cult (whose name is actually Adam Foster) found that a

• 54

  How many Raspberry Pis does it take…

  The folks at element 14/Premier Farnell announced today that they alone have

• 12

  FamiLAB Orlando and a SNES (Super Nintendo Emulated System)

  FamiLAB is a hackspace in Orlando, Florida that Eben and I had a really

• 17

  Water droplet photography

  We knew when we were designing it that the Pi would make a great bit of

• 17

  Guest post: Dr Andrew Robinson, Manchester University

  Liz: Our friend Dr Andrew Robinson (whom you may have spotted on this site

• 68

  CAS Raspberry Pi Educational Manual

  You might remember that we mentioned last year that a team of UK teachers