Haha...haaaahaaaa...bwaaa...no, wait...BWAAAHAHAAHA
Smile for the SelfieBot
Wait, where am I meant to be right now?
Waterproof cases are our jam
Light me up!
Mum, save me from the crime!
Neat cable and power management in a nifty Al-alloy case. We like it!
The world’s leading technology fair for young people
Your face, 14 feet tall
Scientist Dr Autun Purser needed a small device to take photos of cold-water corals on the seafloor
That's a wrap!
Also inside: Haunted Halloween Hacks, aquaponic garden, make Space Invaders
Haaaaaappy birthday to us
Open-source pattern design for a 1980s knitting machine
Join our wonderful community of volunteers and help people everywhere learn computing
More new courses than you can shake a computer at!
All you can hardware
I can see sound!
Our guide to ethical computing, new online training courses, introducing Microblocks, and more...
"Etch, draw that man in a chicken suit."
We want your vote for the next MagPi community projects list
Or you might. I won't judge.
Welcome back, Astro Pi!
Things that (don't) go bump in the night
BOING!
Project yourself
Come along now
Simon says...
Automate your goodbyes
Years of development, one fire and some great results
The POWER of BBC BASIC
Program your own game, secure your home, and find your perfect robot kit
But it still doesn't beat mixtapes
Listen to the plinky-plunky music
Cuteness overload
The power. THE ULTIMATE POWER!
Drone on and on...
Like that smash button
Taco, cat, goat, chees, pizza!
Helping to prevent aircraft crashes
Thank you, Debian!
Smile, though your heart is Android
I want to ride my...oh, you get it.
We love newbies!
It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the Pi again
It's Wally. WALLY!
We love books
10 people to watch
For Pi-powered electronic music jam sessions
Dragging a 2011 car into the future with rear view cameras, maps and more
The family that makes together...
ROV-E and WALL-E would be friends
Go nuts!
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good
Just try not to be Cedric Diggory
Everyone's making music
Work with voice and image recognition on your Raspberry Pi
No more ads on your home network
Try Mu today!
Let's celebrate!
DIY waveform measurement
We love Konichiwakitty!
Share your code with the world
Summer summer summertime..
*ring ring* "Who's there?" "Whisky!"
What’s been your computing highlight of the year?
Digital making to melt your heart
They see me rollin'...
Help break records once again
It's coming /home/
Magnetic levitation: not just for trains and frogs
"For the sixteenth time, NO, you don't really look like a cactus"
Let’s go fly a Pi
Sputnik or Spudnik?
Use your workday more effectively
Some new features for Raspbian, including a setup wizard and a software installer
MagPi readers also get a discount on emteria.OS
He was a sk...nope, I can't, I'm sorry.
And the Astro Pi teams with this year's best experiments are...
You'll never use a standard LED again!
I've got my eye on you.
Also: glass-blowing, science busking, and machine learning to replace your family's bad habits
Do you wanna build a robot?
But how does the third colour work?
Affirmative, Master.
Toot toot
This is 100% the droid you are looking for
Grab your safety goggles!
One small dish for mankind...
Rules indeed! Why, she only wants rules so she can break 'em.
Take your Code Club to Coolest Projects North America!
And I dream I'm an eagle, and I dream I can spread my wings...
An neonatal incubator add-on that mimics maternal contact for infants
Eben was wowed by the young makers and their projects at this year's global showcase
From prototype to database to final soldered build
Vote for this project in the Google.org Impact Challenge!
Live in the future with these home-grown projects
*bleugh*
Blink and you'll (no longer) miss it
Feed, monitor, and entertain your pets with Raspberry Pi
An evolving project that creates unique image renderings
All you can IoT
Young coders' day on Saturday, educators' day on Sunday
Launching the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge
The Raspberry Jam Camer team are kick-starting a Raspberry Pi community in the country's capital
Available as a standalone product from Naturebytes
An autonomous path-finding robot built by non-experts
"I play Athreos, God of Passage."
"I don't even game, and I still want one!"
Helping educators in Puerto Rico to engage students with physical computing
A fully functional work-in-progress, with thanks to the Raspberry Pi community for their support
Minority Report, here we come!
Beautifully geeky
Celebrating the Year of Engineering, inclusive computing teaching, tech-themed trips, and more
How to make a pencil crossbow, and how it's OK when you fail
And the Oscar for best SBC in a feature film goes to...
Turn it up!
Updating a 20th-century classic
Gotta catch 'em all!
Never forget to buy snacks!
Twitch it real good
Get your own 3D printer for £99
Raspberry Pi 4?!
Students vs climate change
Invent your own sounds
Making with paper, making with steel
The world-leading showcase for young digital makers expands
All the colours of the rainbow!
All you need to build your own AI projects
Get advice on starting your own Dojo
So why is there no on/off switch?!
Build a house at the touch of a button
Designing a new power supply chip for the 3B+
Boop your favourite artefacts
Piiiiiiiis iiin spaaaaaace!!!
Protect your head
Zero-sugar clandestine operations
Barometer? I hardly know her.
Spot sneaky squirrels in your garden!
Sit back, relax, and watch stuff!
We're going on an easter egg hunt!
Specs, benchmarks, interviews, and more in our definitive coverage
Find the eggs this easter
Brew the perfect coffee at home
Just keep swimming...
Can't sleep, teapot will eat me. Can't sleep, teapot will eat me...
Ladyada reveals her hardware secrets
Payload with Astro Pi upgrades going skywards today
Taking stock of a year in which we welcomed lots more people to the Raspberry Pi community
Inspire your inner inventor!
The aftermath: your reactions to the new Pi
Adding support for different screen resolutions
1.4GHz processor, 3x faster Ethernet, faster wireless LAN, PoE, and other exciting improvements
A global roundup of our Jam-packed sixth birthday party
Putting all the lights on the table
Down here all the fish is happy...
Magda didn't think coding was for girls. Here's how she discovered that it definitely is.
The earth is neither flat, nor round. It's a cube.
Down with re-positioning the magnifying glass with your elbow
Beep, beep, beep...
3D print your new best friend
How many grains of sand...
Our history so far...
Learn how build your own makerspace for young people
Progress from block- to text-based programming
Turn text to speech in the blink of an eye
Ready player one...
Hey Mister DJ, put a record on...
Ready to be deployed
#MakerRevolution
Bark, bark, bark...
From the makerspace to the runway
You, you, you oughta N-O-D-E
Replace your green thumb with a green computer
We're all in the mood for a melody
Tiny computers and tiny robots unite!
We have Raspberry Jams in 35 countries across six continents on 3-4 March 2018
Our Raspberry Pis on the Space Station will join in the party
This round's on Grandad
Dinosaurs, bubbles and robots, oh my
Rocking the Bett Show
New Picademy 2018 dates in United States
Look to the stars
Wilson...WILSON!!!
And now to Richard with the weather
Pi-powered home theatre builds
Out today!
Massive walls of awesome
"Alexa, ask Pi Spy where is GPIO 12."
Bring your project to a world-leading tech showcase
e-paper pocket money maintenance
Clock your screen time
Learn to tell the time all over again
Approaches to professional development, and much more
The red car and the blue car had a race...
The same great Pi, now with a header!
Snake: the best mobile game for procrastination
Control your TV from your phone
aka noughts and crosses to some of us
BMO Chop!
Raspberry Pi hardware is unaffected by Spectre and Meltdown. Eben explains why
Create a network of Pis you can centrally control
Hedgehogs can hibernate. That must be lovely. Let's watch hedgehogs.
Five reasons you should write for our computing education magazine
How to get started with your new Raspberry Pi
A turtle's-eye view of the ocean from a Pi Zero W
The Call of Crochethulhu
Pi for Newbies, makes games in C++, and the first ever Raspberry Pi Annual!
Bring on the presents!
I'll have a vowel, please, Rosie
Deck the halls with Christmas #cheerlights
The Food, Poo, Love Machine, and other baby-centred builds
Gorgeous refurb of a 1930s Westinghouse wireless
Defenders of the earth
2000 Dojos, and no sign of slowing down
Electrifying ornamentation
Christmas present ideas for everyone
Resuscitate your old toys and gadgets
Ho ho ho!
Access ALL the pins!
The latest desktop release for Raspbian and Debian
Learn to decipher the mysteries of wiring diagrams!
All I want for Christmas is brand-new resources
Raspberry Pis, assemble
New super resources for your cluster computer
200 pages of the very best Raspberry Pi projects, tutorials, and reviews
HackSpace magazine issue 1 is finally here!
Getting physical with computing can be a catalyst for creativity
Never end up with a peeling print again!
Practical advice on all things Code Club
Switch to a handheld coding device
Weather data has never looked so fancy
Anatel-approved Raspberry Pi now available in Brazil
Simple hands-on circuits for everyone
Meet The Raspberry Pi Guy
An important study of the state of computing in UK schools
It's...a-maaaaze-ing!
Speedy installs on Raspbian, courtesy of Ben Nuttall
Testing the air in the streets of Lima
Add to your maker library
Mornings never seemed so easy
Look out, Starbucks!
Magical 3D music visualisation
Enter if you dare
Paaaaaaarrrrrrp!
Zombae, zombae, zombae-ae-ae-ae...
Welcome to the Fantasy Zone — get ready!
Let there be spooky, nightmarish light!
Sure plays a mean pinball...
Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming, Halloween is coming...
The latest trend from R'lyeh Fashion Week
A fully functional pocket-sized laptop
Come play with us!
Updates on the community-supported educational project
Tim Rowledge on the case
Pennywise would be proud
Open-source low-cost dynamic Braille display
Order yours by Sunday 15 October!
Towards gender parity
The singularity starts here
Get your zombie-spotting gear here!
Are you winking at me?
Open-source low-cost fingerprint detection
Pull the plug!
A long way from Super Mario Land
An AI for live piano accompaniment
LEGO and Raspberry Pi — a match made in maker heaven
All you can Sense HAT
May not be ideal for cat owners
More students than ever can run their code in space
What's 'sugar high' in Swedish?
Much cuter than ED-209
WE WANT COOKIES!
We're sending more stuff to the ISS
...incoming message...
Pi 3 not titchy enough? This'll help
It's okay to say it's cute, yes?
Bring old home movies back to digital life!
Breaking records year after year...
...plus a sneak at the next challenge
Don't look at the sun, look at the data
Create your game world, animate your characters, build your physics model
Print a GIF?!
Code Club expands with new resources to support children up to age 13
Another skill to add to your maker belt
New term, new issue of the computing magazine for educators
Make something amazing with your Pi Zero W
-. . - ..-. .-.. .. -..- / .- -. -.. / -.-. .... .. .-.. .-..?
Who has time to solve these?!
Help us make our videos more accessible
Get your right correct and your light right
Scan everything!
Because why not!
Give your toy some video-game upgrades
Is there anybody out there?
Alex is still looking for a Pi Towers volunteer to recreate this build
The Stretch version of Debian comes to Raspbian
From Pi projects to PhD study
Google Assistant gets a facelift
Astro Pi flight cases - now with added 'awwwww' factor
Totes Pi
Play video on multiple wonky monitors!
You spin me right round, baby, right round...
Raspberry Pi travels to more countries
You love it. We know.
Surf the programming learning curve
Has it really been this long?
Cases for all occasions
It's one small step for man, one giant leap for bedtime
Coding projects that are out of this world
Join us in running a global mega-Jam
Plus a new version of Raspbian for PCs!
Cheap, easily assembled, and autonomous
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, rock
More lovable than Arnie in Terminator 2
Better than just talking to a wall
One PiNet to rule them all...
They smashed it out of the park! Park - get it?
We heart it
Booting up a Raspberry Pi is just the beginning
Imagine you have eight theremins...
Brighter than the Texas sun
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder
Using an API on a Pi
Plane as day
The opposite of hacking
Never again at the mercy of unreliable public transport
An exploration of sound and cycling
What's on your mind?
A beautifully bare-bones build
Photons, bosons, gluons, pions...
The MagPi 59: The Raspberry Pi PC Challenge and 12 Summer Projects
125 countries and counting...
Scratch 2.0 comes to the Raspberry Pi
A streamline way to get your product compliance-tested
Our lastest Raspbian update brings you all sorts of goodies!
Wow, are we excited about joining this community!
Use the power of the brand
A shelf that's aware
I want candy!
That sound you're hearing is Alex's high-pitched squeeing
Pi-controlled motors in backpack straps aid navigation
Visualise your answers to personal questions
More selfies, less hassle
Take a walk on the bike side
In the distant future, someone will extract its DNA to clone a new Pi
Yes, but is it art?
Storm in a Pi-cup
Pi's got rhythm, Pi's got music!
It's like the Hotel California, but with tiny computers
Mission accomplished for the European Astro Pi challenge!
Bored of burning your fingertips? Let Laura show you how it's done.
This is the sort of exercise reward we're on board with!
The best publicity is live publicity
Honk honk beep squelch
The merger will give more young people the chance to learn to get creative with tech
Amazing Minecraft Pi projects, and more things to do with your AIY Voice Project in The MagPi 58
We've got all your DIY spy gadget needs covered
Issue 2 of Hello World is out now! Carrie Anne Philbin takes a look at what's inside...
At Pi Towers, we believe that failure is just a stepping stone to building something amazing
Security lessons from an eleven-year-old
Get your teeth into computer science with Carrie Anne and Crash Course
Tools for understanding the way you use energy, made in Wales
Code Clubs aren't just for school! We visit Tile Hill Library to learn more
Find out how major product makers are opening their arms to hobbyists
Julia: an open-source programming language for scientific computing, now available for Raspberry Pi
We've doubled the number of Code Clubs to over 10,000 worldwide. What's next?
Get creative with a souped-up sound card HAT for the Pi
Learn more about Code Clubs running in schools and libraries throughout Scotland
Want to hone your skills as part of a Pioneers squad? Read on...
How you folks have reacted to our special AIY Voice Projects Kit issue of The MagPi
Add voice interaction to your projects with this exclusive Google kit, only available with The MagPi
Today we're are announcing 13 new Pi Zero Distributors!
Find out what Code Club kids have to say about their club
From Issue 52, The MagPi magazine Community Profile introduces Let's Robot's Jillian Ogle
New and established Jams in different countries: how and why they got started
Ben Nuttall shares a round-up of recent Jam activities
Get your Jam on with our fantastic new resources!
Thinking about running a Pioneers event at your Raspberry Jam?
Do you like making things? Are you aged 11 to 16? The Pioneers challenge is ready for you!
Why buy a Raspberry Pi Zero audio HAT when Tinkernut can show you how to make your own?
Olivia went on a mission back home to prove that anyone can learn to code.
Why press a french press when the french press can press itself?
Acrophobia 1.0's mission to give a Raspberry Pi a nervous disposition is a rolling success
This clutch of eggs is due to hatch over the next two weeks
The latest video from The MagPi Magazine. What would you like to see next?
Cheap, portable kit for diagnostic imaging of the eye's interior
Delve into the world of Processing, the programming language for visual arts
A stunning steampunk laptop: brass goggles are optional!
The Sense HAT emulator gets an upgrade!
Build your own Crystal Maze at home with our free resources
Jannis Hermanns built a LEGO Macintosh Classic complete with an e-paper screen and Raspberry Pi Zero
The ghost in the (chess) machine is a Raspberry Pi
Use our free resources to celebrate your furry friends!
Giorgio Sancristoforo creates generative music with the Sense HAT
We asked 12- to 15-year-olds to make us laugh, and they didn't disappoint
We also test every Raspberry Pi operating system
Times Square in your office, content-controlled by Slack
Our All-Seeing Pi resource shows you how to build a tweeting photo booth with Snapchat-esque filters
Launch spells at your opponent with a real-life Raspberry Pi-powered Wizard Duel
On 1-2 April, Cambridge Raspberry Jam will be hosting Pi Wars 2017
European Astro Pi winners announced!
Anyone can use our free resources to extend their transferable skills
A Zelda-inspired home automation system controlled by an ocarina
With the Pi-powered JavaWatch system, there's ZERO reason for you to ever run out of coffee
Lorraine Underwood uses NeoPixels to light her stairs according to the temperature outside
From Issue 52, The MagPi Magazine Community Profile explores RasPi.tv's own Alex Eames
The arrival of the Raspberry Pi Zero W is perfectly timed for IoT
3.141592653589793238...and 200g of flour
Find out what happened at Raspberry Pi's fifth birthday party
Greet visitors with your choice of audio
This Pi-powered baby busy board will keep a baby busy...and not bored!
Engaging and supporting girls on International Women's Day
Wellington Duraes uses a Pi and readily available retro content to build a TV Time Machine
Dr Lucy Rogers uses a Raspberry Pi and e-cigarette to create legal indoor fireworks
A simple, resilient instrument for children's musical therapy
We loved your response to the Zero W so much that we've written this blog about it
Pi Zero W, PiGRRLs, Alexabots, and much more in issue 55 of The MagPi
A wireless version of the ultra-low-cost Raspberry Pi Zero
A year of amazing achievements from the Raspberry Pi community
1000 teachers, librarians and others are equipped to share the power of digital making
Stent-testing medical robot uses Raspberry Pi and machine vision to control the test
From Issue 51, The MagPi Magazine Community Profile explores the quirky builds of Matt Reed
Matthew Leigh took the aged cassette deck from an old Ferrari and brought it into 2017
A Cambridge-based theme pack for PIXEL
It’s the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club’s fifth birthday!
VNC Connect makes it easy to remotely access your Pi from anywhere
Matt Richardson on how education with computers should continue well into adulthood.
Josh King upgrades the simple name badge into an e-ink masterpiece.
Certified Educator Grace Owolade-Coombes welcomes young coders with autism and Tourette's
Emotional Reality: a Pi-powered glimpse into the mind of another
Encouraged by the continued success of the original MeArm kit, the team are back with the MeArmPi
Pierre Muth builds PolaPi-Zero, an adorable Pi-powered, Polaroid-esque camera
Mark Safer Internet Day with our responsible projects
MAAS Powerhouse Museum use a Raspberry Pi to visualise the theremin
Fake cases are appearing on Alibaba - make sure yours isn't one of them
Learn what we shared with educators from around the world at the Bett Show 2017
Concrete Jungle are using a Raspberry Pi to figure out when urban fruit is ready for picking
Questionable practices in aquaculture
Thanks to YouTubers Hacker House, users can remotely unlock a door via a smartphone app
Digital making outside the classroom
Magic mirrors, IR nature watchers, command line basics, and more
The Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Hello World magazine, a new, free resource for educators
Using an LTE shield and Raspberry Pi, Mahmut turns a drone into a YouTube Live-steaming device.
Google has exciting plans for Raspberry Pi in 2017 - help them by filling out this survey!
Helping people everywhere to learn new skills
Pat Peters documents his build of a working Weasley Clock, a Harry Potter-inspired location tracker.
We'll welcome educators from around the world to more than 50 events
Wordery used the Raspberry Pi to make warehouse automation simple and flexible
Bringing Compute Module into the Raspberry Pi 3 era
Coming to cities around the UK
CEO Philip Colligan shares plans to inspire young makers, support educators and grow our community
From Issue 50, The MagPi Magazine Community Profile highlights Michael Horne and Tim Richardson
Piet Rullens turned his holiday footage into a creative project for his wall.
We reveal our first ever Pioneers challenge
Meet the Interactive POV Globe from the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Highlights of the Raspberry Pi builds on Bob Clagett's I Like To Make Stuff YouTube channel
Innovative dunking mechanism
2017's most unsettling post so far. (We set a low bar.)
What to do with your Christmas Pi...
Estefannie introduces us to the world of 'digital baking'
Free DVD with The MagPi enables you to run PIXEL on your PC and Mac
Our desktop environment for x86 machines
Automate your response to this year's Christmas cracker jokes
In March, both the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club will be turning five. Join our celebration.
Write your next masterpiece without distractions, thanks to the Scripto
The holidays can be a time for digital making with family
Slack client developed for Commodore 64 uses Raspberry Pi to translate the API
The rock-shaped Nest sat snug on top of Table Mountain, hiding away a musical secret.
Train anywhere in the world with the Raspberry Pi Foundation!
Peeqo; your new GIF-powered office assistant
From Issue 49, The MagPi Magazine Community Profile shines a light on Zach Igielman
Your Raspberry Pi Christmas Shopping List is here!
3D print your own Raspberry Pi and Code Club decorations
Train with the Raspberry Pi Foundation anywhere in the world!
British Engineer Andy Moxon offers up a lowdown of Kosovo's first ever Pi Wars event.
Pick an exciting project for your Hour of Code challenge!
Details of some security changes we have made to our Raspbian image
Escape the hustle and bustle of the city through your desktop or mobile phone
Jelly Babies, laser cutters and trench foot at MozFest 2016
Let's get it on!
The MagPi Christmas Special is packed with fun, festive projects
Solve challenges using digital making and win awesome prizes!
A 64-bit OS for Raspberry Pi
The Official Raspberry Pi Projects Book Volume 2 is on sale now
The Computer Aid turns a Raspberry Pi into a portable router
An assistive loom powered by Raspberry Pi
This pressure-sensing football can help rebuild neural networks.
Matt Richardson tells his story of going from hobbyist to career maker
Capture tonight's supermoon with a Raspberry Pi
The University of York challenges new students to a Raspberry Pi-off
Nicole He explores the sweet spot of video game controlling.
Good day? Bad day? Kittens!
See you later, boi.
There may be such a thing as too much IoT...
Spinach, carbon nanotubes and landmines
Dr. William Bell reports from the CERN Coding Pi Science event, with a guest appearance from Babbage
Joshua Krosenbrink's World of Light shows worldwide website feedback in a stunning way
Portrait? Landscape? It doesn't matter with the FlipFrame rotating picture frame!
"Sisters, All Hallow's Eve has become a night of frolic, where children wear costumes and run amok!"
Learn new coding skills with The MagPi magazine's burgeoning book range
Create a realistic lighting effect for your Halloween pumpkin
Robots, arcade machines, underwater cameras, C tutorials, Halloween projects, and more!
Saving eyesight in India with a Raspberry Pi-powered ophthalmoscope
Secure your Pi from Dirty COW
Dodging parking fines with Raspberry Pi and computer vision
Mike Smith adds light to his vinyl collection and music selection
Sisyphus is Bruce Shapiro's amazing Pi-powered kinetic art piece
Brand-new special Educator's Edition of The MagPi launched, packed full of inspiration!
You'll never believe who this Nintendo Entertainment System grew up to be...
Matt Richardson explains how the first ten million Pis will have lasting effects
The team headed to Maker Faire New York to check out what's new in the world of making and hacking
Build digital signage systems etc
Learn the most popular coding language in the world
It's hands-free time with the recent update to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) API
Ten weird facts...sorry. We'll stop now.
A royal celebration of ten million Raspberry Pis and our amazing community
Laura, Dan, Lorna, and Lauren bring some Pi love to Glasgow
Bloomberg Business's Hello World sent Ashlee Vance to cover Raspberry Pi (and punt)
Inspiring entries and fantastic winners in the element14 Pi IoT Smarter Spaces Design Challenge
Students and teachers across Europe can enter our new Astro Pi challenge: run your code in space!
YouTuber mrfid72 discovered evidence of a little furry critter occupying his shed so grabbed his Pi.
Enter a room to your own theme music with Doorjam
We celebrate our 50th issue with 50 amazing builds
The new desktop environment for Raspbian
A vintage movie camera gets a new lease of life thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero and Camera Module
Zach fits a RetroPie Zero within a NES cartridge for ultimate respect points
Florian built a two-metre tall sunrise lamp alarm to help him wake up slowly
David Pride took inspiration from a £1 toy and built a set of air drums using Wii Remotes
Daniel Chote built walkie-talkies for his kids, and the Pi team 'bingeflixed' Stranger Things
Clodagh O'Mahony created a dress to quantify physical social interaction for her thesis
Tempest in a teacup
Help us, we're melting.
Exploring Raspberry Pi’s role in the transformation of libraries in the digital age
We'll train 300 educators and add more cities in 2017
A machine for nostalgia. Revel in the bleeps and bloops.
Control a marionette with your Raspberry Pi and Simon Monk's nifty kit.
Play with a free Sense HAT on your Raspberry Pi desktop!
We've sold 10 million computers, and to celebrate we're launching an official starter kit
The MagPi is now available in Germany. Here's how to get Das offizielle Raspberry Pi Magazin today!
Drag-and-drop custom Raspberry Pi SD card setup for your Mac or PC
Using deep learning to grade vegetables
Becky uses a Pi Camera to identify her noisy neigbours
14-year-old James builds Gran Check to relieve worries for the elderly
Dominique Laloux provides Western Africa with more opportunity
Run your containers on Raspberry Pi with official Raspbian Jessie support
A retro phone becomes a Pi-powered book recommendation device
Also take one small step and make your own Apollo Pi
A magical A Level project from Bethanie Fentiman
We want your input on our celebratory feature
Replace your boring car radio with a multi-functional carputer
The power of polycrop farming in the smallest of spaces, powered by a Pi 3
Learn simple electronics with GPIO Zero
Detect earthquakes with your Raspberry Pi
Space animations, Astro Pi and temp tattoos at Camp Bestival
How software support is critical to Raspberry Pi’s success
Art and science join forces to make air pollution visible
A Swiss retailer uses Raspberry Pis and the Touch Display in their showrooms.
A summary of the Astro Pi science results
Play with a free Sense HAT in your browser!
Skycademy 2016 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Firing Range
A look at the new Ethernet boot mode
A look at the new USB mass storage boot mode
I'm on a boat!
OpenROV's Trident underwater drone has a Raspberry Pi inside.
Pi Wars - adult and school teams are invited to enter!
Eastlea Community School weather station
We also invite you to the Scratch Olympics
Join us for a day of tinkering!
Code your own driverless race car with Pi Zero and PiBorg!
Zing! Kapow! Mint! Newt!
Bees are important. Bees are important. Bees are important.
Hacking and Making with Minecraft, out now!
Rocket man James Dougherty sends the Pi to the sky with Rocket-Pi
Bopping the night away to disco Star Wars
IoT builds that we have run out of adjectives for
Steph's new at Pi Towers. We're turning her into a maker.
Compete in the Scratch Olympics!
You can be my wingman any day.
Arnav Sharma's award-winning asthma monitoring kit
A smartwatch, clad in collectable pleather
A very neat Pi Zero hack
Raspberry Pi visits the American Library Association's annual conference and exhibition.
A spot of home automation from the forums
Another brilliant Adafruit project
Hamster-powered, hamster-drawing plotter
Classroom computing in Southend
Get a free poster and Astro Pi mission patch exclusively in issue 47!
A game England might actually be good at
Ever wondered how our organisation works? Find out here.
Learn to code on your Raspberry Pi with Scratch and the team behind the official Pi magazine
As Tim Peake's mission comes to an end, what will become of our Astro Pis, Ed and Izzy?
Alexa IoT projects win prizes
The coolest of projects from CoderDojos around the world
Producing clean drinking water with a Raspberry Pi, some simple chemicals, and sunlight
This projects gets a ? from us
Raspberry Pi and Google create beautiful poetry together
Teaching coding to hearing impaired young people in Mexico City
Our spacefaring Raspberry Pis face their toughest challenge yet. Who can help them?
A spot of history, and a masterclass event
Dave's been at it again: here's how the new Zero with camera performs at altitude.
Our Creative Technologists' year in (mostly) pictures
A bluetooth-controlled motorised skateboard. Take that, hills.
Including the biggest Raspberry Pi we've seen!
An Earthbound planetary rover
Google DeepMind donates $100 000 of AlphaGo's prize to Code Club
Output from old and new infrared camera boards
3D images that hang in the air
A single-hand keyboard using Raspberry Pi and GPIO Zero
Make your house a smart home with Raspberry Pi and OpenHAB
All balloons, all the time. We are ready to launch and currently accepting applications.
Learn electronics with the Raspberry Pi and much more
Mapping a marathon with a Raspberry Pi (and a donations buzzer)
A message from Tim Peake about the Astro Pi Coding Challanges
CNC machines too expensive? Build your own!
Image identification in real time - imagine the possibilities!
Get started with Node-RED - as easy as ringing a bell
A camera that takes somebody else's pictures
All your most commonly asked Picademy questions answered
Lots more Zeros in stock, with a new feature added
Details of what has changed in the latest Raspbian release
Swap out your remote control for a nonchalant wave of the hand
Importing weather from the Cayman Islands to your aquarium
Make a tropical plant habitat regulated by a Pi 3 and an Energenie Pi-Mote
New VNC from RealVNC remotes everything on every Pi
Why you should apply for the Principia Schools Conferences
PIK3A, a retrogaming IKEA hack
Passionate and enthusiastic educators to the front of the line!
An independent network for Syria
Amazing digital making by teams from schools
Also inside: NeoPixels, SenseHAT science, arcade machines, and more!
A custom console with an elegant approach to parental control
A personalised media player for a kid with autism spectrum disorder
Raspberry Pi in an NHS trial
Announcing our new upgraded camera boards, based on the Sony IMX219 sensor
Software optimisations making Scratch on the Raspberry Pi run like greased lightning.
Archiving and playing old games in a museum environment
In Part 2 of Ed and Izzy's story, our intrepid computers get to work in space!
Celebrating makers and innovators across Europe
Adafruit are at it again
Laura's been at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire. Here's what she did there.
Our favourite Pi Zero gaming hack so far
Grow your own fish, and potatoes to make the chips
The results of the Astro Pi Coding Challanges are in! Are you a winner?
Intelligent cat exerciser
Join us in Newcastle for Picademy or Code Club Teacher Training
Crowdsourcing the world's largest cosmic ray telescope
Hound-releasing as a service
Blending analog and digital technology
Hosting this website on Pi 3s
Power up your life in issue 44 of The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine
Your very own, adaptable Star Trek user interface
Building your own virtual assistant
We loved meeting old friends and new at SXSW!
Raspberry Pi Oracle weather stations shipped
You've printed some great flight cases. Your new challenge is to hack the design.
Submit your Sonic Pi tunes and MP3 player code by noon on 31 March
Low-power, USB-connected, 314 GB hard drive
All the fun of the 1980s, incl. full colour instructions
Code Clubs aren't just for schools!
An untried platform, a modified software stack, a peak-traffic day. What could possibly go wrong?
Happy Pi Day! Here's ScummVM for Raspberry Pi.
Our Creative Technologists reveal their work on 23 April in Cambridge
All about Raspberry Pi's big birthday bash
Small, stackable independent motor control for Pi Zero
Raspberry Pi celebrates International Women's Day
Astro Pis Ed and Izzy star with Tim Peake in new video from the ISS
We heard you wanted them in print. Here they are!
Stats, specs, benchmarks for the Pi 3 along with news, projects and reviews
Apply to join us for the next Picademy in the USA
Happy birthday to us!
It's our 4th/1st birthday on Monday!
A new resource from Dan "watch the capitalisation" Aldred.
Robot claw wants to play
Raspberry PiLab - a travelling computer laboratory as a solution for PyCon Namibia
15 awesome games for Raspberry Pi, free to to download and play!
Get news, projects and articles from the Raspberry Pi community in your inbox every Friday
A quick, simple set up for a locally viewable live stream
Out now with physical and LEGO projects
Fantastic project found in our forums
Fantastic, full, free games from the GameMaker community
Tim Peake needs code for an MP3 player and some tunes to play. Can you help?
Creative computing with Raspberry Pis, bangs and bananas
Packed workshops, thousands of conversations and a Raspberry Jam
Updates, bug fixes - and one other thing...
You've been asking for it for almost a year now!
You won't believe that a $5 computer can do this one weird thing.
Plying the lakes of the Netherlands
With new coding challenges you can take part in!
We also have ten great HATs for you to check out!
Has anybody seen the sticky tape?
Ouch my back
Stop signs, traffic lights and more
And it's all thanks to you!
Where would the internet be without cats?
A peaceful spot in a busy city
Avoiding mud in Southend-on-Sea
It's space time!
There's a warm seat waiting for you at Pi Towers
Bringing free educational software to vulnerable children in Mali
Customisable physical dashboard. Your desk will never be the same again.
Voice-activated personal assistant from a 13-year-old inventor
Teachers! Apply to become a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator.
Inspiring Pi Zero projects
Human versus Sense HAT
Welcoming new colleagues - and some job ads
Come and celebrate with us!
Our professional development workshop is coming to Mountain View, CA!
Photograph things in the distance
Come and meet us at this year's Bett show!
Extraordinary technology that makes a difference
Merry Christmas! Got a new Pi? Read on!
Grab the latest edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPi, today!
Christmas fun and games with the Sense HAT
Our favourite Christmas lights project of 2015
Zapping the Dark Side
A high-school girl from America brings coding to a school in rural India
Some Scottish Jam
Need a gift for the Pi-lover in your life? Start here!
Gorgeous persistence of vision project from Adafruit
Conductive paint activity board
Make Games with Python with The MagPi's latest Essentials e-book
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...
Pis in space!
Pi Wars - a Jam-packed robotics guest post from 10-year-old Femi
Easy timelapse for nocturnal pets
Official calendar, with bonus February 29!
The Astro Pi flight hardware launch is tonight!
The latest set of changes to the Foundation's Raspbian image
What it's like setting up a hardware business from scratch
Keeping tabs on the office pet
This was a triumph.
A Raspberry Pi for $5
Alex is ten. Here's his amazing school project.
Physical computing just got a whole lot more accessible with this one weird trick
Cracking projects to help beginners and intermediate programmers enjoy this year's Hour of Code
200 pages collecting issues 31-35 of The MagPi. The perfect Christmas gift!
Our Gordon Hollingworth judges York undergrads in the Raspberry Pi Challenge
An awesome army of volunteers took Raspberry Pi to MozFest 2015
The Raspberry Pi Foundation education team trains 25 of Barclays' Digital Eagles
The MagPi issues one to 30 are now available on our digital apps, for free
Bringing visual arts coding to Raspberry Pi
Watch Fran Scott blow stuff up with Raspberry Pi ... for Science!
CAS hubs allow educators, developers and industry experts to meet up. We hosted our first last week.
Pi fans meet up at booksellers across the United States
Astro Pi competition winner Hannah on peak-time TV with astronaut Tim Peake
The new Astro Pi website is now live and packed full of space-age awesome
Yasmin Curren reflects on the exciting possibilities of a tool for creative coding
Conquer the command line with The MagPi's new Essentials e-book
Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club join forces
Learn to solder and control LEDs with your Raspberry Pi using this fun wintry kit!
Raspberry Pi workshops for young people in London, 6-8 Nov
Try our independent learning activities, lesson plans and schemes of work
More spooky shenanigans than you can shake an SD card at
Meet other community members and check out The MagPi in print!
Raspberry Pi weather station update
What it’s like to enter the world of digital making as a beginner
An update on the Astro Pi mission
Raspberry Pi cyber-weaponry
Raspberry Pi Compute Module in CubeSat on-board computers
A round up of events following our free High Altitude Ballooning CPD
The largest ever student hackathon
A simplified platform for the elderly
A conversing K-9, multi-functional sonic screwdrivers and a TARDIS that's flown to the stratosphere
Raspberry Jam Berlin take us to our first European Maker Faire
HomoFaciens captures the September supermoon eclipse with a Raspberry Pi camera
Scratch is now faster and has built-in GPIO support
Soldering Sunday is raising funds for Buzz, a fun educational kit, on Kickstarter.
New Yorkers go hands-on with the new display, Sense HAT, Astro Pi, and The MagPi
Final preparations with the Astro Pi units. They launch in 10 weeks!
PyConUK is one of the Education Team's favourite events of the year
A favourite project revisited
A new version of Raspbian is now available
Synthesizing audio representations of mineral patterns
New Windows 10 Core Starter Pack for Raspberry Pi 2 - great projects for getting started
Monitor your environment with a gas- and particulates-sensing HAT
Boldly going, and all that jazz
Retro gaming with strings attached
Meet us at the Faire!
A new HomoFaciens tutorial
A humane solution
Multiplayer piano
You can do the cube, but you don't have to.
We've beenworking on an education programme with the British Embassy in Tallinn
How not to hack the Raspberry Pi display
How will a Raspberry Pi look, ten years from now?
The official Raspberry Pi touch display is available now
Sonic Pi creator Sam Aaron teaches Radio 1 and 1Xtra's DJ MistaJam to live code music
Get new Raspberry Pi robot challenges delivered monthly
Arcade machine in a barrel
MATLAB and Simulink student suite
Fish tank temperature probe
How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that's a hardware problem.
For all your bananapiano needs
Buy real spacefaring hardware for your own experiments
Breathing new life into computing from the 60s
Astro Pi: Mission Update 5
An update to Skycademy, our free High Altitude CPD
A Kickstarter robotics course
What's more amazing than a talking dog? A spelling bee!
Giving old hardware new life
Education Pioneer Carrie Anne visit to Australia and Singapore
A Raspberry Pi ascends to 5.1km and videos the trip
Watch Carrie Anne, James and Ben's talks from this year's EuroPython conference
Slow-mo video FOR SCIENCE
Galleries are creepy places at night
Identifying bats by their echolocation calls
This month's MagPi extravaganza of hardware fun from Mike Cook
What would a solar eclipse look like on Mars?
Marc is very excited to get stuck into creating new learning resources
Monitor acoustic events underwater, save the whales
Here's the stuff we've been up to at Pimoroni since the last time we updated
The new issue is here and you can buy it in print today!
A Kindle, a Pi and some rubber bands
70s electronic toy meets millennial arcade classic
Free teacher training: [email protected] comes to Birmingham!
A helping hand for the tooth fairy
Pigeon racing, with added Pi
A build for audiophiles
A beautifully over-engineered alarm clock
Board shuffle
Philip Colligan has survived his first couple of weeks at Pi Towers
We're hopelessly out-cooled
Minecraft with hammers
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That's Waldo for those of you not in the UK.
The second annual Pi Wars - apply now!
A milestone for OSMC
Dance the night away with Dan Aldred
Video robot tutorial series
It's too darn hot.
Remote dog training
Rooooar!
Pi-powered wildlife camera
A new issue, and news about the print version!
Grow your own chickens
Shenanigans
Simplifying chicken husbandry
Just how big ARE dwarf planets?
Our free high altitude CPD takes place in Cambridge in August
One-way internet from space
Play a familiar game using nothing but the power of your mind
An absolute brute of a little robot
Gordon takes us on a whirlwind tour of injection moulding
A bird's eye view from a kite
We're excited to bring our professional development program stateside!
Digging deep into public data with the Wolfram Language
Monitor your beverage stock from anywhere in the world
Announcing the first EuroPython Education Summit
Adafruit building Arduino in the USA
Our free CPD for teachers takes place next in Cambridge in July
Teenagers build a wheelchair control system that uses eye movements
Hands-on learning with circuit boards and electric paint
Seeking creative, DIY girls who can make something BIG with small technology
Free download - tutorials, projects and much more!
The Raspberry Pi as movie extra
Make your own 128-voice sampler
A project from some of our Creative Technologists at the Art Hackathon
Astro Pi Mission update 3
No blog today, move along, nowt to see here.
Getting started with IoT
Pocket PiGRRL - RetroPie in your pocket
Tech Hero Awards 2015
Two factor authentication safe deposit box
TEDsters pose with the iconic logo and capture it with help from Raspberry Pi.
Modulo: a simple, modular solution for building electronic devices
A price cut for fans of Raspberry Pi 1
The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT
Details and pictures of the Astro Pi flight case
A chillingly competent attempt at world domination
Happy Scratch Day 2015
Details of the next set of user interface changes to the Raspbian desktop
Beyond the ribbon cable!
Kid hacking Dad's computer from her Raspberry Pi
Get to know the 2015 Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists!
What's been going on with the Astro Pi competition?
Free to download, and packed with goodies!
New developer preview has landed
The Raspberry Pi Foundation's new CEO
Many learning opportunities to be had at a Picademy near you in the South West!
A big boy did it and ran away.
Battery-powered, wireless LAN plotter
Steam Machines for those on a budget
The Benton Park Planets Suite
Affordable setup for photography fans
View CPU load remotely
An Amazonian biome, complete with weather
Alarm your family with mechanised farting
Nicholas Tollervey talks Pi in his Python in Education book
Launching [email protected], our latest teacher training, thanks to Google!
Make your own homebrew smartphone
First-year splendiferousness from Imperial College Chemistry students
Comprehensive home monitoring and automation
Automating a mushroom grow
Giving the Tin Man a heart
Photo-on-a-tshirt-as-a-service
We accidentally sent a Pi into space
70 pages of essential Raspberry Pi knowledge and know-how
Pi-based engineering and tech education for school students in Mongolia
Teeny-tiny home automation
Compact power and power management, solar version also available
Thank you for making us feel less alone
Photos, videos and measurements captured during Friday's partial eclipse
Centralised user accounts and file storage for your Raspberry Pi classroom
The story of how Raspberry Pi became a key component in this kit.
A doorbell that phones you, texts you and streams video
Dave Akerman helps cover the eclipse for the BBC, with some Pis
The education team are taking Picademy to the National STEM Centre in York
The first Compute Module Kickstarter product to reach backers
Launching a new creative PCB board - DOTS!
Partnership with BBC Make it Digital
The Star Wars Death star scene animated in Minecraft Pi
Carrie-Anne Philbin on BBC Technobabble
Find an event near you to celebrate Raspberry Pi!
Flight Hardware Technical Specifications for the Astro Pi HAT
A light organ built into a guitar pedalboard
Pianos as PlayStation controllers
What Mythic Beasts did one Monday last month
We're aching all over. That was a great weekend.
For once, the cake is not a lie!
All change at The MagPi
Display street maps with your Raspberry Pi.
Introducing our new Creative Technologists youth programme
Our newest member of Raspberry Pi Education Team - Welcome James!
Most romantic project EVER.
Possibly the best thing on the entire internet
Answers about open source and the display board
Cripes!
Video of Eben from RS Components
Gather round to discuss the results of the Sonic Pi competition
Get the MagPi Vol 3 in print, and Issue 30 out now
We're touting celebratory events across the United States.
Get your school involved!
Camera-shy Pi
More fun for your money with Pi 2
How does the Pi 2 stack up?
A Pi2 roundup
The newest addition to the Raspberry Pi family
Student-made video games in the English literature classroom
Music and code from kids in Leeds
Muppetry
More details on our big birthday event!
A big thank you to all who came to see us at BETT
An interactive installation powered by Raspberry Pi
A new Kickstarter from Pimoroni
A refreshed look and feel to our free learning resources
Live from Tennessee Aquarium
Fran will be performing her show #Error404: The Explosions-based computing show
Is this the youngest Pi tutorial maker yet?
Raspberry Pi turns three (three!) next month and we would love you to come to our birthday party!
More from Andy Proctor
Research into real-time learning and control
Join us for talks, workshops and more
Home-made arcade controllers
How to hack your staircase
Watch from anywhere in the world
Hello! I'm Matt Richardson, the newest member of the Raspberry Pi team.
Full DIY instructions
A better toolchain for GPGPU on Pi
Some background to the Raspbian UI changes
Fruity happenings from NYC
Clips from this year's lectures
He's making a list and checking it twice
Monitoring wildlife in extreme environments
Helping people stay independent in their own homes
2014's most distracting Christmas tree.
Social media techno-tree
This year's Christmas Lectures are sponsored by Raspberry Pi
Astrophotography and more
It's that time of year again!
Christmas holiday issue
We're sending Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station!
Win a B+ and help decorate Pi Towers!
Raspberry Pi robot competition
Call for presentations at the inaugural Raspberry Pi Compute Module developer conference
Dedicate just one hour to learning how to program with Raspberry Pi as part of Hour of Code Week.
Education for children without access to schools
Smell the glove!
Dashboard Raspberry Pi communicates with the office.
Haunting a medieval castle
Places like the Hub have a huge part to play in vocational education
A musical, educational add-on board by 14-year-old Zach Igielman
Submit a session for the Raspberry Pi Stand at Bett Show 2015
Powerful molecular identification on a low budget
An art installation for health professionals and carers
Kids from Northern Ireland talk about their local Jam
RasPi.TV's Pi agglomeration
New issue, out now!
A step back into programming history
Amazing Minecraft mods with Python: a book about Minecraft programming for young people
Freshers' week challenge at the University of York
Controlling a propane kiln with a Raspberry Pi
Announcing the Model A+, a smaller, more energy-efficient, lower-cost version of the Raspberry Pi
As I type this, Emma is hugging herself and shouting "LOOK AT THE LOVELY
Ferran Fabregas worked out a couple of months ago how to render .jpg
Dr Sam Aaron is the creator of our musical programming environment, Sonic
Back in July we wrote about an exciting project aiming to make computing
A month or so ago, I had an email from a Dr Lucy Rogers (@DrLucyRogers), who
There's a lot of spooky Pi shenanigans going on this Halloween. Here at Pi
The good people at Adafruit pointed us at this video. Besides the fact that
You may remember our Education team attended PyConUK in Coventry last
Liz: We've got a number of good friends at Argon Design, a tech consultancy
Our good friends at Pimoroni have made a very sparkly HAT. We thought you'd
Alex Markley, a programmer, writer and comedian, has a young relative who,
Earlier this week, we talked about Raspberry Pi robots under the sofa.
Eben was speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt in London yesterday, where he had a
On Saturday December 6 (we're letting you know ahead of time so you've got
Last week saw the London Film Festival open with the premier of The
Liz: If you're a regular reader, you'll have noticed more and more frequent
Back in April we announced the Compute Module, and since then we've had a lot of interest from manufacturers
Today we're launching a new section of our website for information about
Liz: Annabel Oakley is eight years old. That makes her our youngest ever
At Picademy, our awesome free training course for teachers, I run a workshop
As an educational charity, education is at the heart of what we do here at
Earlier this year, we blogged about a shampoo ad that was running in the
We were directed to a Facebook page from Hong Kong this week. It's been set
Martin, our financial director, dropped by for a budget meeting yesterday.
Is that the date already? The new issue of The MagPi, the free magazine
Liz: Today's guest post is from David Mitchell, who emailed me last week
Ben Heck, King of the Makers, has made the prettiest point-and-shoot camera
If you're unlucky enough to have required precise, timed doses of drugs
When we announced the launch of the Model B+ back in July, we emphasized
Road trip. These are the two words that Clive, our Director of Education
At the start of September, a film crew from CNBC came to visit Cambridge.
3D-printed wildlife cameras for research and conservation
No ... we're not adding a Start Menu or a paperclip assistant. This update
Sheffield has been a maker city for many years - the thriving steel
Rachel and Clive spent the weekend with the Pimoroni crew at the World Maker
Les Pounder is a big player in the Linux & free software community in
It’s been quiet around Pi Towers lately. Quiet and disquieting, rather
Ben: Here's a guest post from Steven Sloan, a developer at
If you head over to the downloads page, you'll find new versions of our
With the success of the first two productions from Saladhouse, our animator
Last month we put out a call for questions for our education and engineering
At the end of August, Luke Westaway from CNET's Adventures in Tech came to
If you're a regular reader, you'll recall that a month or so ago, we
The deadline for this competition has been extended till 9th January
Last week saw Trondheim in Norway host a Maker Faire. Rather than go with
Back in the mid-seventies, when I was even smaller and more adorable than I
Are you a teacher? Have you got back-to-school blues after yesterday's
Update: Marco Barisione, who led the browser work at Collabora has written a
Humongous write-up of Ben's trip to the States
Carrie Anne - I have an ongoing long-term love affair with Sonic Pi ever
As you might have spotted, if you follow us on Twitter, Eben and I spent the
Have you ever noticed the way that everybody takes the same photo when doing
Space mattersIn September 2014 (as in a couple of weeks) the new Computing
Carrie Anne: A few weeks ago, Raspberry Pi hosted its first ever Young
Dominique Laloux first got in touch with us in May 2013 when he was on the
Back in February 2014, Matt Timmons-Brown captured Gordon, our Head of
Helen: This December will see a Cambridge Raspberry Jam with a difference;
It's the summer holidays, and I know teachers will be enjoying a well earned
Teenage electronics enthusiast Lewis Callaway thought that an ad in which
We revealed the Raspberry Pi Compute Module back in April, and released the
So, you may have seen on our twitter or elsewhere that we were a host centre
Back in June, we mentioned Pete Warden's port of the Deep Belief
Helen: Today we're delighted to have a guest post from 17-year-old student
Liz: Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, makes a habit of finding
August's MagPi, the magazine for the Raspberry Pi community written by the
Today I fly to New York to start my Raspberry Pi USA Tour! Thanks to
Liz: If you use Raspbian, you'll have noticed that Mathematica and the
The specification for Raspberry Pi add-on boards
Coding music on a Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi has quickly become a great way
Got a great idea or project to teach kids about computing? Need some help
On this day 100 years ago, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia in
Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave
Delivering computing education without elaborate infrastructure
Young Rewired State is a network of coders around the world. Every year an
Hey all! It's Rachel again. I have another amazing Art Showcase for you.
I heard about plans for a new Indiegogo fundraiser last week. It launches
Ben here: I'm on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in
On Monday and Tuesday this week we ran our third Picademy - two days of
The Raspberry Pi is a favourite tool of security researchers, and we've seen
Meet your new favourite piece of hardware. In the two years since we
For your weekend reading pleasure, here's issue 25 of the MagPi! Published
A couple of weeks ago, we featured a first-year undergraduate project from
As you may have heard, the Boardroom at Pi Towers contains a wall covered in
Building your own remote-controlled robot or car is a favourite activity for
Liz: I wasn't at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam this weekend: I was working in
Adafruit's 3D Thursday series is getting us terribly excited every time they
There are many things that happen in my bathroom which I wish to keep
Greg Cope mailed us a few weeks ago with a pointer to this project, which
I've been pointed at a couple of videos which might interest you: you'll
Jeff Highsmith is from Make. His Mission Control Desk (a homework desk
Our good friends across the pond at Adafruit are running their first ever
Amy Mather's home automation work experience
Here's something rather special, which should resonate with those of
The Raspberry Pi Education team have really hit the ground running over the
Fuelled by Welsh cakes and a lot of sunshine, the team at Sony Pencoed have
Update: As Andrew mentions in the comments below, we recently made the
This week started with the second run of Picademy - our free CPD course
Hey all - Rachel here! I have spent the last year talking with lots of
Lance Howarth is CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, leading our charitable
What do you get if you cross a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES),
Apart from the bit where someone who shall not be named yanked a power cable
The MagPi's a little late this month, but it's full of good things. The
A quick post today: I'm in a tearing hurry trying to get our display for
We found a simply beautiful Raspberry Pi project over at Instructables:
What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi; 57 geometrically tiled,
Skinner boxes are a kind of apparatus used for conditioning and training
The MinIMU-9 v2 (catchy, no?) is a tiny inertial measurement unit (IMU). It
Recently a number of us were lucky enough to fly over to the Bay Area Maker
You may remember the announcement of our new open source documentation,
Doing the social media stuff that I do, I see a lot of cat-related stuff;
Ben: here's a guest post from one of our great community members, Alex
Update: from now on, you'll be able to find the most recent beta release of
As many of you know, our very own Carrie Anne Philbin spent most of last
A few days ago, we pushed out some more documentation for the forthcoming
You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our
YouTuber Arganalth has an interesting hobby: music production using disk
Call for guest posts! I'm going to be away for ten days, and Ben and Helen
Liz: A few weeks ago, over the Easter holidays, we had Amy Mather, 14 years
One of our goals in launching the Raspberry Pi Compute Module was to provide
Liz: Last week's Cambridge Raspberry Jam was one of the biggest yet. I asked
RS Components, who, along with Farnell/element 14 make up our licensed
A quick poll of the office reveals that none of us knows anybody with a
Heston Blumenthal's production team got in touch last year to talk to us
UK teachers: want two days of free, top-class CPD? Check out Picademy, and
On 14th and 15th April we ran the first ever Raspberry Pi Academy for
The good people at Adafruit have a new tutorial up on making a wearable
Cyndi Minister runs The Twisted Purl, a yarn company in Arkansas. She's also
We were amazed to learn that this month's edition represents The MagPi's
Ping...(wait a
On May 1, 1964, Professor John Kemeny ran the first BASIC program from a
Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram Research. We've
Michael Teeuw was out shopping with his girlfriend, when he noticed a
We think Craig Richardson's brilliant. His Python Programming for Raspberry
Update, May 6 2014: Dave's now filmed a teardown of the project, because so
Liz: Gordon Hollingworth, our Director of Software, has been pointing the
Here at Pi Towers, we are lucky enough to have more toilets than we have
Cases and add-ons free to good causes, schools and charities. Apply
Some of you will be aware that we've been working on a new, more responsive
Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastav are second-year students at the Birla
A couple of books projects for you today. One is simple, practical and of
I'm about two weeks late to the party on this one - massive apologies to all
We met the folks from BitScope some months ago to talk about their plans for
We've just taken delivery of another video from the lovely guys at
Meet Jasper. He's like Siri, but much better, in that it's open-source and
I'm on the fence about whether or not this is an effective way to learn how
As regular readers will know, it’s been a busy time here at Pi Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_-ngDlclw0 The PA Raspberry Pi
It’s been a busy month for us here at Pi towers, and after the recent
You'll notice that things round here don't look like they used to. This
As you'll know if you've been following us here and on social media
At the end of February, Broadcom announced the release of full documentation
Work-in-progress LCARS interface
The office conversation this lunchtime went a bit like this: Me: "Two beer
If you've been round here for any length of time, you've probably heard
We first came across kegerators last year: it never ceases to amaze me how
Are you a primary or secondary teacher in the UK? Do you want some free CPD?
After a workshop last week, Clive, our Director of Educational Development,
Alex Eames started doing amazing things with the Raspberry Pi very shortly
PiBorg are an organisation making add-on boards for your Raspberry Pi.
Even though Carrie Anne Philbin is working here at Pi Towers now, she's
Liz: you'll notice that this post has no pictures or video. That's because
**Update 28 March: Entries are now closed. Thanks to everyone who applied,
Allen Heard, Head of Computing at Ysgol Bryn Elian in North Wales (that's
When we wrote about accelerating Fast Fourier Transforms (FFTs) on the Pi
So you're at SXSW. And you want an up-to-the-minute cookie. What could be
Jetlag's grim. As you'll have gathered from Ben's post on Monday, I found
If you've emailed our [email protected] address in the last year, spoken to us about
Ben here - Liz is currently non-functional due to her body having no idea
A quick post today: I'm at the airport gate waiting to get on a plane. I
Last month's MagPi fundraiser for a Volume 2 binder was a roaring success:
Ben Llewellyn Smith is Head of Computing and ECDL manager at AKS in Lytham
A quick post today: I'm pretty behind on work. (I've wasted most of today
There's been a media brouhaha about coding recently**. The Hour of Code puts
Two years ago today*, the Raspberry Pi Model B went on sale, selling 100,000
We have no details about this other than the video below. (A picture
Our good friends at Adafruit put this project on their Learning System
Some parents take the carrot approach to homework enforcement, others the
Last month we released an animation called What is a Raspberry Pi? which
It is a beautiful piece of hardware and I'm sure takes pride of place in
Don't forget to enter our latest competition: win an Adventures in Raspberry
A lot of you have had huge success in the last few months using our very own
The MagPi magazine is the single thing to have come out of the Raspberry Pi
Here's another guest post from Allison at Wolfram Research. Today we're
Last Friday night I spotted a tweet with a picture of a Raspberry Pi running
One of the biggest (and nicest) surprises for us over the last two years has
Yesterday, GitHub announced a new initiative to help students, teachers and
Last month we posted an alpha release of Tim Rowledge's port of Scratch to a
Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, was in the office recently
From September 2014 Computing will be a subject in its own right in English
Issue 20, February 2014, of the excellent MagPi Magazine was released this
The 2014 Raspberry Jamboree is coming up at the end of February. Last year
Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram Research. Today
Last week we discovered an outstanding open source project which worked out
Ryan Walmsley is one of our favourite people. Towards the end of last year
The 8GB pre-flashed NOOBS SD cards we had in the Swag Store sold out pretty
Martin O'Hanlon's a familiar name in these parts, especially for fans of
Andrew Holme is well known to regular blog readers, as the creator of the
A lot of companies are building Raspberry Pi add-ons - Raspberry Pi
Jhonny Göransson was part of the team that made what's simply the daftest
Regular readers will know Dave Hunt well. He's behind some of the...no,
The RPF Education Team is just back from BETT, the education technology
We've rolled the forum database tables back to a snapshot taken around 2am
We've had an issue this afternoon with some corruption in the forums
We've just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron's speech to the World
As you may have gathered from large hints we've been dropping, we're partway
A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt
Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram, which is part of a
Sandy Walsh thought it'd be cool to host a trivia night in his living room.
I don't think there's anyone here at Pi Towers who doesn't use Steam for PC
A quick post today: I'm in Cardiff with Lorna, who you may have spoken to if
Update 21/1/14: Thanks for all of your entries, we've been overwhelmed by
LadyAda from Adafruit is one of my very favourite people. We have a
We're moving offices at the moment (a long and agonising process which is
Over the last year, we've seen big improvements in Scratch performance on
Accessing the camera module directly from Python
When we announced our $40 Model B plus SD card bundle back in August, a lot
I've actually held this project in my very own sweaty little hands: Michael
I had mail from Jürgen Huber at Logi.cals, an Austrian software firm, who
Carrie Anne wasn't our only new starter on Monday: we've also welcomed Dave