Blog Archive

December 2012

• 28

  RasPiLapse

  If you go shopping for a time lapse dolly rig for your camera, you're going

• 11

  Little Box of Geek from Geek Gurl Diaries

  The magnificent Miss Philbin from Geek Gurl Diaries has been having fun with

• 17

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Eben

  Today's the last day we'll be listing a very limited pre-production Model A

• 1

  Rob Bishop on CBC Radio

  When our developer-evangelist Rob Bishop was in Canada recently, he took

• 23

  Pi-Point – turn your Raspberry Pi into a wireless access point

  I was shown Pi Point before the holidays, but thought it was best to wait

• 3

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Jack Lang

  We’re auctioning off the very first 12 pre-production Model A Raspberry

• 14

  Phoebe is hinting that she wants some LEDs

  Meltwater, who you may know from our forums or from the MagPi, where he's a

• 3

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Liz

  As you'll be aware, unless you got lost down the back of the sofa in a

• 0

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: the mods

  We're auctioning off the very first 12 pre-production Model A Raspberry Pis,

• 5

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Pete Lomas

  Merry Christmas everybody! I hope you all found what you were hoping for in

• 48

  New Quick Start Guide

  Because so many people are coming fresh to Raspberry Pi because they've

• 1

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Adafruit

  Today's festive piece of Model A Pi comes to eBay courtesy of our friends at

• 13

  CNN clip

  As promised, here's the full version of the short news item CNN carried on

• 0

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Alan Mycroft

  Today's auction of a Raspberry Pi Model A (with accompanying goodies

• 1

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: David Braben

  David's choice of charity to benefit from the auction of one of the first 12

• 49

  Sneak peek – some more Minecraft: Pi Edition video

  As you'll know (unless you've been hiding under a rock, or very busy

• 22

  The MagPi Kickstarter

  There's just over a week to go on the MagPi's Kickstarter. They've met their

• 0

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: Farnell

  Another day, another auction. Today's Raspberry Pi pre-production Model A

• 20

  Build your own mobile Pi-to-go

  Over in Austin, Texas, Nathan Morgan has managed to stay distracted from the

• 7

  Scouts land in the Fubra Universe

  Scout groups pop up regularly on the Raspberry Pi blog. The special mix of

• 0

  The third Pi of Christmas: Rob Mullins

  Today we're auctioning one of the first Raspberry Pi Model A production

• 20

  Twelve Pis of Christmas: We’re auctioning off the first model As!

  Last year, we auctioned the very first Raspberry Pi Model Bs to come off the

• 10

  Raspberry Pi on CNN, Thursday 7pm GMT

  We spent a few days with a camera crew from CNN last month, both here in

• 17

  Manuel, the talking moose

  I notice a certain silliness - not to say outright frivolity - surrounding

• 15

  BeetBox – music employing capacitive touch, root veg and a Pi

  This has to win Liz's Project of the Year Award (there is no

• 178

  Introducing the Pi Store

  We've been amazed by the variety of software that people have written for,

• 55

  A quick Model A show and tell from Adafruit

  We sent our friends LadyAda and PT at Adafruit one of the first production

• 39

  Elastix – VoIP for your Raspberry Pi

  Here's a nice bit of new functionality for your Raspberry Pi: the good folks

• 109

  Crowdsourcing new Tips of the Day

  One of the changes you'll have noticed with our new site design is the

• 35

  Open the pod bay doors, Siri!

  I have an iPhone, but I have to admit, I don't use Siri much. The male,

• 13

  Some Christmas lights projects

  I haven't even put my tree up yet, but lots of you have been very busy with

• 7

  Of Mohawk Guy and Raspberry Pi

  The 20% sale on T-shirts ends tonight - and today is the last day for

• 126

  Site redesign!

  There's one day left to go on our 20% off t-shirt sale: visit the store to

• 24

  Pre-Christmas T-shirt sale! Get 20% off.

  If you or someone you love is looking for one of our lovely T-shirts, and

• 17

  Raspberry Pi rev2 template with mounting holes

  Thank you to Adafruit for bringing my attention to this! Raspberry Pi Spy

• 11

  Christmas music and lights, synched with a Pi

  Chivalry Timbers (I have a feeling that's not his real name) has gone one

• 27

  Raspberry Pi factory process – a short video

  I'd thought you might have had enough of details about the factory process

• 11

  Wednesday grab bag

  Christmas presents Apparently, it's the most wonderful time of the year.

• 7

  Hackerspace Charlotte: video from Eben’s visit

  Back in October, Eben and I drove down the Eastern seaboard of the United

• 5

  Rob’s travelling again: here’s what he’s up to!

  Rob's been back in the US this week, tech-evangelising his little heart out

• 60

  World’s first Raspberry Pi tattoo? We think so!

  Eavesdropping on people mentioning Raspberry Pi on Twitter yesterday, I came

• 13

  CNN short

  CNN shot this video of Eben talking about Pi and teaching a class of

• 6

  TechRepublic: Inside the Pi Factory

  We were at the Sony factory in Wales again last week, where Raspberry Pi

• 44

  Camera board video output

  Dom's been streaming 1080p video from the camera board (this time using a

• 23

  The MagPi issue 8 is here – support their Kickstarter!

  It's the first of the month again. What better on a cold December evening

November 2012

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  First Model A samples off the line!

  We're having a very busy, very mobile couple of days. We've been talking to

• 18

  New T-shirts (and women’s and kids’ sizes) – get them before Christmas!

  You asked for more sizes and bigger logos, so we've just released the full

• 45

  Minecraft: Pi Edition – video demo and more details

  We've had loads of questions about the upcoming Minecraft: Pi Edition over

• 101

  Sony, the Pi makers – a post from Pete Lomas

  Pete Lomas is a trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and designed the

• 85

  Does it run Minecraft? Well, since you ask…

  There's a question that we've been asked almost every day by someone or

• 167

  Camera board – first demo of the final hardware!

  Pete Wood at RS sent me this video yesterday. He's been at Electronica 2012

• 53

  Summer Coding Contest results (finally!)

  Update, 23/11 - congratulations are in order again for the winners: you've

• 23

  Guest post #8: School trip to Sony UK Tec by Lucy Bunce

  Since summer 2012 the Raspberry Pi has been produced in the UK, specifically

• 23

  A personal Raspberry Pi retrospective

  One year ago I had just joined the Raspberry Pi forum. I’d heard about

• 31

  Guest post #7: Bird table webcam by Francis Agius

  You can know the name of that bird in all the languages of the world, but

• 22

  Sunday Grab Bag

  They said that it could never be done! But here it is: a Sunday grab bag. 

• 35

  What do you really think of the Raspberry Pi? No, really!

  [update 25/11/2012: The survey is now finished. Thanks to everyone who

• 11

  Adafruit’s new Raspberry Pi breakout kit: the Pi T-Cobbler

  I have a recurring dream where I am ensconced in the Adafruit warehouse,

• 6

  Instructables Raspberry Pi Speed Challenge: the results!

  Amanda from Instructables would like to thank everyone who entered their

• 42

  Elite: Dangerous — the next game in the Elite series

  …and we could hardly mention Elite without mentioning Elite:

• 11

  How to play Elite on the Raspberry Pi

  We could hardly have a Raspberry Pi Gaming Day without mentioning Elite.

• 3

  Pub Quiz!

  Everyone loves a pub quiz: the inept, red-nosed Question Master screaming,

• 19

  Guest blog # 6: MAME cabinet by Darren J

  Raspberry Pi Gaming Day continues with a MAME cabinet. The arcade emulator

• 20

  Marshmallow Entertainment System

  All work and no PLay ma es Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack

• 17

  Guest blogs #3, #4 and #5

  With all of the amazing projects we see using the Raspberry Pi it’s easy

• 51

  What do you really think of the Raspberry Pi?

  Update 16 November 2012 The survey has now finished. There will be more news

• 21

  Guest blog #2: Near field communication by Donatien Garnier

  Arthur C. Clarke said that, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is

• 20

  Guest blog #1: Repurposing a Roomba by Ben J

  Clive: The future has been so disappointing. We were promised force fields;

• 27

  Guest blogs and EVE Alpha

  >look You are at home: a dark cupboard under the stairs of Raspberry Pi

• 128

  RISC OS for Raspberry Pi

  We're very pleased to announce the immediate availability of RISC OS for the

• 38

  Observer article

  There's a big piece on Raspberry Pi from Miranda Sawyer in tomorrow's

• 10

  Friday grab bag

  MagPi The November edition of the MagPi is out! The MagPi is a community

• 109

  T-shirts – get them while they’re hot!

  Update: a lot of you have asked for size XXL to be made available, so we've

October 2012

• 33

  Picade – the UK’s first Kickstarter project!

  I am driven to blog from Starbucks today, thanks to lousy public transport

• 55

  New SD card image

  An updated Raspbian "wheezy" SD card image is now available from the

• 12

  Pumpkin Pi

  We're on the hunt for guest posts for a couple of weeks in November. See

• 120

  TinyBASIC for Raspberry Pi

  A large number of engineering professionals are using the Raspberry Pi to

• 18

  Thursday grab bag

  A grab bag. For Thursday.

• 301

  Open Source ARM userland

  Today we have some really big news, which is going to mean a lot to many

• 10

  Call for guest posts!

  Eben and I are going to be away for a couple of weeks next month, helping my

• 45

  Model B revision 2.0 schematics

  Update: On Pete's advice I've removed the caveat about the redundant pins on

• 49

  Eben at the IET: live stream tonight

  Eben's giving a talk at the Institution of Engineering and Technology's

• 9

  Raspberry Pi session at the London Games Festival

  This is a fascinating five minutes of video from last Saturday's Raspberry

• 586

  Model B now ships with 512MB of RAM

  Update again: We've now added the ability to adjust the split between GPU

• 12

  Video from Orlando

  The Orlando Sentinel shot some video with Eben when we were at FamiLAB last

• 25

  Housekeeping-type post – book compo results, awards, dinner.

  We won another award! That's three in two weeks; we're very shocked and

• 17

  Raspberry Pi in schools

  This term, we've started to see the beginnings of school applications of

• 17

  How did we not spot this earlier?

  Hexxeh, an official Friend of Pi and hardcore-Chromium-type has this to

• 63

  Counterfeit power supply units in the UK

  Whenever a Raspberry Pi is sent back to the distributor as a faulty unit,

• 11

  An award win! And a teeny-tiny MAME cabinet from Orlando, Florida.

  Before I start on the meat of this post, I have a boast to make: we won

• 20

  Rob’s Google Tech Talk

  If you're one of those who wanted to go and see Rob on his tour who hasn't

• 23

  Adafruit’s WebIDE for the Raspberry Pi is now in alpha – get testing!

  We're back in the UK now, having driven 1500 miles and been to seven events

• 13

  BrewPi

  In keeping with our educational mission, here's a post about beer. There

• 3

  And I totally forgot to mention…

  We won a Makey Award at this year's Maker Faire NY! The Raspberry Pi's award

• 6

  Wifi radio

  So here I am in the back row of an auditorium in Columbia, SC, rudely

• 3

  Roadtrip

  Sorry posts are a bit sporadic this week (we're rather neglecting Twitter

• 15

  Were you at Maker Faire on Saturday? Did you take some video?

  We were hoping to feature Eben's talk (which is a bit of a departure from

• 32

  New issue of The MagPi – and now you can buy a print edition too!

  Things have been very busy in The MagPi's nesting box this month. We saw Ash

• 76

  A guest post from Pimoroni

  Liz: I asked Paul and Jon at Pimoroni, the company they set up to make the

September 2012

• 60

  East Coast Americans: come and meet Eben and Liz in NY, NC, SC and FL!

  Next week, Eben and I are undertaking a somewhat epic drive to visit a few

• 36

  Wired opinion piece from Pete Lomas

  This is so good I'd kick myself if any of you missed it - head straight to

• 31

  Qt5 and the Raspberry Pi

  The Qt community has been doing some great stuff with their Raspberry Pis.

• 13

  New York, New York!

  Eben and I are headed back to the US on Wednesday. We've got meetings on

• 71

  Factory pictures from South Wales

  A very quick set of photos taken this morning at the Sony factory in

• 20

  Thursday grab bag

  I'm in a bit of a rush today; we're driving down to Wales with Pete in an

• 152

  Introducing turbo mode: up to 50% more performance for free

  Since launch, we've supported overclocking and overvolting your Raspberry Pi

• 453

  The Raspberry Pi User Guide is here! Win a signed copy.

  It's here a month earlier than the expected publishing date because the

• 30

  Showing service states on a traffic light

  When I was about fifteen, I was an inveterate thief of temporary street

• 11

  Guest post from Manchester University – prizes, birdbrains and more.

  Liz: Here's a guest post from our friend Dr Andrew Robinson at the

• 76

  American Pi: details of the Raspberry Pi hackspace tour

  Rob Bishop, our tech evangelist, developer and all-round good egg, has been

• 41

  Wednesday grab bag

  Another post in an occasional series on the cool stuff people have been

• 46

  A perfunctory post about processors and Peter’s Penguins Puzzle

  Buy one processor, get 48 free! As well as an ARM processor, the

• 145

  A nice shiny photo of the rev2 board – and User Guide news

  A couple of things today: Eben and Gareth's Raspberry Pi User Guide is now

• 179

  Made in the UK!

  There's a little bit of news about what's new with the Rev2 board design we

• 207

  Upcoming board revision

  Update: Added locations of mounting holes. Fixed minor error in I2C

• 48

  SmartSim, a digital circuit designer and simulator

  Ashley Newson is a sixth-form student from Oxford. Alex Bradbury and Rob

• 50

  Free online course on building a simple Raspberry Pi OS from the University of Cambridge

  This summer, the University of Cambridge Computer Lab has been home to a

• 14

  Issue 5 of The MagPi out now!

  Another month, another MagPi. This issue has a page from the Raspithon team

August 2012

• 343

  Nutjob attempts to extort $35 computer from non-profit foundation

  Here's a (totally unedited except for the addition of some line breaks to

• 13

  Eben at PopTech

  We were in Iceland a couple of months ago for the PopTech conference on

• 43

  Starting a business with a Raspberry Pi

  We're now reaching a point where people's Raspberry Pi business ideas are

• 17

  So: what can I do with those video codecs?

  We've had a few people ask exactly what they can do with the new MPEG-2 and

• 12

  Another game from Philip (aged nearly eight)

  I'm starting to think we should be giving this kid a weekly spot. Now, I'm

• 30

  Music hacks, Raspberry Pi synthesiser

  We've spent the last few days at the Turing Festival in Edinburgh. And the

• 30

  Stuff Gadget Awards – please vote Pi!

  We've been nominated for another award, and we'd really appreciate it if you

• 4

  Reminder: Summer programming contest entries close on Saturday!

  We hope those of you lucky enough to be 18 or under have been working hard

• 240

  New video features! MPEG-2 and VC-1 decode, H.264 encode, CEC support

  If you've been following this website since we launched it last summer,

• 46

  Wednesday grab bag

  Eben and I are travelling to Edinburgh today for the Turing Festival, a

• 27

  MIT Technology Review’s TR35

  We are disgustingly pleased to announce that Eben Upton is one of this

• 8

  The Dark Pi Rises

  I'm getting a real kick out of some of the fan movies that have been

• 45

  Summer Programming Contest opens for entries

  Six weeks ago, we announced the launch of our Summer Programming Contest for

• 60

  Raspberry Pi Foundation US Hackspace Tour

  Rob Bishop is one of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's developers and a

• 49

  Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi

  Oleg Romashin has got a long way already with a port of the open-platform OS

• 21

  Philip, age 7, his game and his review of the Raspberry Pi

  A little reminder of what it's all about. Philip, who is seven years old,

• 19

  I have a message for you…

  An art

• 23

  Retro games and a retro joystick

  A lot of people of a certain age (cough - that'd be me) have been using

• 15

  Painting with light (and a Raspberry Pi)

  Our friends at Adafruit just mailed me something remarkably cool. Click the

• 38

  Some Friday video

  Superb video from HomoFaciens

• 65

  A teaser

  Just a little something to whet your appetite for an announcement that's

• 0

  We’ll be back in a bit…

  Liz and I are taking a couple of days away from the internet while we attend

• 32

  1940s television, resurrected

  Andy Brown has been working on a project to re-create a 1940s TV using a set

• 32

  New subforums for German, Spanish and Portuguese speakers

  If you come to our forums today, you'll notice a small change in the

• 21

  The MagPi issue 4 – out now!

  The MagPi's arrival every month is making me very aware of the weird things

July 2012

• 288

  Android 4.0 is coming!

  Update: those of you looking to play with Android on Pi in advance of our

• 18

  Controlling a 7-segment display from half a world away

  I am kind of in two minds about posting this little bit of frivolity from

• 28

  Raspberry Pi smart glasses translate in real time

  Will Powell read about Google's Project Glass, and decided he'd have a go at

• 18

  Attack of the Raspberry Pi

  The Raspberry Pi's effect on creativity among kids still has the capacity to

• 64

  Meet the Raspberry Pi – download the e-book!

  The cut-down version of Meet the Raspberry Pi, written by Eben Upton, our

• 51

  A Raspberry Pi, hosting…Raspberry Pi

  Liz: Here's a guest post from our old friend Pete Stevens, who runs Mythic

• 25

  Mike Cook’s Magic Wand

  Mike Cook, electronics Superman, swapped some emails with us after we last

• 25

  The Raspithon’s finished!

  Ben, Luke, Ryan and Edward coded for 48 hours solid. And they created a very

• 27

  Raspithon continues: live feed undaunted by DDoS attacks

  I've been checking into the Raspithon (this link is for a live feed) every

• 103

  Pibow

  If you've listened to interviews we've given about the general fantasticness

• 33

  Raspithon – 48 hours of Python

  Remember Ryan Walmsley? Ryan's the young programmer behind the Rastrack

• 49

  Pi in the sky

  I think more of you have emailed me about this than about anything else that

• 122

  Raspbian-based SD card image released

  We are pleased to announce the release of our first SD card image based on

• 152

  Want to buy more than one Raspberry Pi? Now you can!

  Up until now, we've had to restrict purchases of the Raspberry Pi to one per

• 35

  Cambridge Raspberry Jam

  Blimey, that was good. We spent Saturday with just under 300 of you at the

• 13

  Pete Lomas interview

  There's a really interesting interview up with Pete Lomas at New

• 107

  Raspbian sneak peek from Dom – performance increases up the wazoo!

  We're hoping to release an official image based on Raspbian, the hard-float

• 17

  Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi case (which looks *suspiciously* like a BBC Micro…)

  We met Ben, King of the Modders, at Maker Faire back in May. He's a stand-up

• 19

  Robot: destroy!

  Algorhythmic from Aon² has been working on speech recognition with his

• 53

  Summer Code Contest poster

  Here's an A3 poster for you to print out and hang up at your school, scout

• 96

  Summer programming contest!

  Update 18 August: The contest is now open for entries. As we were a little

• 32

  Nominet Outstanding Contribution to the UK Internet Award: we won!

  Regular readers might remember that a couple of months ago we were

• 47

  DIY expansion board from Mike Cook

  If you're of a similar vintage to me, you might remember Micro User, a

• 16

  Biz’s LEGO case: buy parts!

  The Daily Brick have released their first custom LEGO kit: it's all the

• 46

  Android Transporter and Raspberry Pi

  Here's some good news for those of you with Android devices. Daniel from ESR

• 45

  The MagPi: issue 3 out today!

  The third issue of The MagPi, the Raspberry Pi community's free-to-download

June 2012

• 112

  Preorder the Raspberry Pi User Guide

  We got cover artwork (possibly not the final version, but cover artwork

• 33

  Soldering is Easy – comic

  We're in Reykjavík this week, and met up on our arrival with some of the

• 20

  Hardware ladder game

  Eben and I are away from the office for a few days while we attend Poptech

• 53

  Fish Pi

  Liz: I try to keep an eye out for some of the kookier projects people are

• 26

  How cheaply could you build a robot?

  Our friends at the African Robotics Network (AFRON)  are currently running

• 31

  Julie Android

  Mike Cook has rigged up a solenoid-controlled glockenspiel to play some of

• 12

  University of Cambridge Computer Lab Open Day

  The Computer Lab, the spiritual home of the Raspberry Pi, is hosting its

• 78

  Kids and their Raspberry Pis

  A picture post today; I thought it was time to remind you all what this

• 161

  Debian “wheezy” public beta

  Alex has produced a new reference image based on the upcoming Debian

• 39

  Monday grab bag

  We've had some people send us some great stuff this week - if you're working

• 56

  Using the GPIO

  Gert's video on Wednesday explaining how to fix up your own ribbon cable

• 29

  Learning the command line

  I posted this shell tutorial from Linux Command on Twitter earlier today.

• 26

  Pi3D

  Liz: Some news from Tim Skillman - which is going to be particularly

• 14

  Raspberry Jam

  Raspberry Jams are being set up by users all over the UK (and further afield

• 30

  OK – I lied. THIS is the final video from Maker Faire.

  Turned out that George from element14 still had another video up his sleeve.

• 30

  BBC news video – Raspberry Pi at St Matthew’s primary school

  The BBC's news videos usually aren't embeddable until a day or so after

• 20

  Monday grab bag

  I've been sent links to a lot of cool stuff the community's been working on

• 32

  Eben gives a demo

  I think this is the last of the Maker Faire videos - this is proving to be a

• 75

  Biz’s LEGO case – the Boreatton Scouts hit Germany.

  Biz, age 12, is a member of the Boreatton Scouts Robo Club. When we featured

• 31

  Home automation from 50 miles away – with a Raspberry Pi

  Simon Maple and Andy Stanford-Clark, Friends of Pi from IBM, have been

• 53

  Nominet Internet Awards – please vote!

  Nominet are the .uk domain registry. As well as holding all the .uk

• 24

  Eben’s talk from Hacker News London

  Just before we went on holiday, Eben gave an hour's talk at the Hacker News

• 25

  Joey Hudy, inventor of the Extreme Marshmallow Cannon, and a Raspberry Pi

  We're back from our holidays. We have learned that Metaxa makes us ill, and

• 40

  The MagPi, issue 2

  I'm still on holiday, but popped the lid of the laptop for long enough to

May 2012

• 39

  Next week…

  Eben and I are taking a week off from this evening. ("But you went skiing in

• 61

  Vote for Raspberry Pi in the T3 awards. (And watch Eben on telly.)

  The Raspberry Pi has been nominated for a T3 Gadget Award, in the innovation

• 38

  You asked, Eben answered!

  You might be one of the people who took part in the #AskEben questions on

• 19

  Google, Teach First, and Raspberry Pi

  We had some pretty fantastic news yesterday. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of

• 103

  The Punnet – a card case for you to print (for free)

  E, who surely has the least Googlable name of all our forum members, has

• 8

  Maker Faire: Raspberry Pi panel with Eben, Matt Richardson and Ben Heck

  The first of this weekend's talks is now available online: here's Eben in a

• 109

  Add your Raspberry Pi to the Rastrack map

  Ryan Walmsley, a UK school student who is waiting impatiently for his own

• 24

  Eben interviewed by Engadget at Maker Faire

  Here's the first video so far from this weekend's Maker Faire. When we first

• 35

  Some pictures from Maker Faire Bay Area

  The Bay Area Maker Faire is the big daddy of all the Maker Faires, and boy,

• 186

  Camera module – first pictures!

  I was sent this image this morning from Gert (not pictured), Naush (right

• 85

  Quick update from RS

  Just landed in San Francisco for Maker Faire - please come and visit us if

• 22

  Challenge Africa 2012 Raspberry Pi raffle

  I'm just heading off to the airport to go to Maker Faire Bay Area in San

• 38

  expEYES and Raspberry Pi – an open experimentation platform from India

  Liz: Alex Bradbury, one of our volunteers at the University of Cambridge

• 69

  Windows 7 on a Raspberry Pi (sort of)

  Microsoft Windows, you say? Love it or hate it, some of you are stuck with

• 256

  Answers to your element14/Premier Farnell/Newark questions

  If you're an element14/Premier Farnell/Newark customer who left a comment

• 54

  Migrating from Simple:Press to phpBB

  We've just turned on our shiny new forums, which run on phpBB3 instead of

• 112

  Another RS update

  This just arrived in my inbox from Jo: I hope you find it helpful! I'll be

• 39

  Easy firmware updating tool from Hexxeh

  Hexxeh has been hard at work doing development with his Raspberry Pi, and

• 51

  The Boreatton Scouts meet a Raspberry Pi

  Liz: A little while ago, we had an email from Alan Herbert, who helps run

• 23

  Raspberry Pi at Sci Fi London Horizons: video

  Eben and I were at the Sci Fi London Horizons event at the British Film

• 124

  phpBB forum beta test: round two

  Many thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the previous round of phpBB

• 124

  Raspberry Pi and Arduino

  We've been a bit sad to see some people who are very passionate about the

• 99

  The MagPi: a Raspberry Pi community magazine

  Whenever I'm tasked with chatting up potential donors, partners or

• 81

  Update from RS Components

  I'm just off the plane, and back in Blighty. (It is about 20° C colder than

• 36

  Tuesday video grab bag

  First up, here's our friend Pete from RS talking about the Raspberry Pi's

• 62

  Eben Upton, forgetful packer; Liz Upton, forgetful poster

  We meant to get the new forums up and running this weekend, but it turns out

April 2012

• 66

  Fancy a Quake III Deathmatch?

  We have enormous luck with the people called Liam (three and counting now)

• 379

  Another element14/Premier Farnell/Newark update

  As you may have seen on our forums and elsewhere on the web, element14

• 23

  Review videos from the BBC, CNET Asia

  Fortunately for us all, I did find some coffee on arrival in America (not to

• 56

  Planes, trains…

  Eben and I are off on a work trip to the US tomorrow, so we won't be posting

• 72

  Computing at School’s Raspberry Pi manual – call for contributions!

  Liz: Commander Coder, one of our friends from Computing at School, left the

• 111

  phpBB forum beta test

  Since Christmas, we've been using the Simple:Press plugin for WordPress to

• 117

  Updated Debian, Arch Linux ARM images

  Liam has just uploaded new versions of the Debian and Arch Linux ARM

• 176

  Model B schematics

  Now that there are Raspberry Pi boards in the wild, we thought it would be a

• 372

  An update for element14/Premier Farnell/Newark customers

  A huge thank you to Jenny from element14, who has been answering your

• 45

  Eben’s talk at TEDx Granta

  Back in March, Eben gave a talk at TEDx Granta here in Cambridge. (So many

• 34

  BBC Look East news piece from yesterday

  This video was on yesterday's Look East, and has just appeared on the BBC's

• 36

  More video from Liam: Arch Linux, Quake 3, getting audio working and more

  You'll need a spare 20 minutes to watch this (and I have to admit, a spare

• 52

  And the unboxings begin…

  17.30, April 17: A lot of people are now posting their own first startup and

• 21

  New Arch Linux ARM build

  If you're one of the lucky people who received a Raspberry Pi in the post

• 57

  Some fun video from RS

  Raspberry Pis have been arriving on doorsteps this morning, and RS

• 79

  New video from Liam – his Raspberry Pi has arrived!

  The most excellent Liam Fraser is our youngest volunteer (he administers our

• 41

  New Debian release, Wi-Fi tutorial from Omer

  A couple of quick news items on Sunday morning: Some of you may have

• 110

  Deliveries have started!

  It's been a hell of a 24 hours. We've been driving up and down the country

• 141

  Some TV coverage from today

  As RS Electronics and element14/Premier Farnell are preparing over the

• 130

  Some news in a quiet week

  We're busying ourselves with lots of boring administrative stuff this week

• 114

  Easter picture post

  Jimmy's sent over a some pictures taken during the setup for a couple of

• 235

  Testing’s done!

  Good news! We just received confirmation that the Raspberry Pi has passed

• 83

  Eben’s talk from [email protected] – video

  Andrew Edney from Connected Digital World wrote a really great piece (lots

March 2012

• 212

  Some little bits and bobs of news – and more photos

  A post for little bits of news that didn't really fit in anywhere

• 79

  Fuze – a ZX Spectrum emulator running on Raspberry Pi

  At the celebrations for the BBC Micro's 30th birthday on Sunday (more on

• 115

  Did you get an August date from element14? Don’t panic!

  We got this mail late last night from the guys at element14's head office -

• 216

  An update on CE compliance

  Update 23.45pm Mar 30: minor changes to the article to reflect the fact that

• 128

  RS availability and purchasing info update

  This has just landed in my mailbox from the guys at RS Components, and needs

• 178

  Pricing matrix update from element14/Premier Farnell

  The folks at element14 have just emailed me to ask me to let you know about

• 196

  Compliance testing

  Some people have been in touch to ask about an email they've received from

• 120

  Programming the Raspberry Pi webinar with Eben, April 4

  I can't believe I've just typed the word "webinar". It's a horrible

• 62

  As to Qs for Pete Lomas

  A couple of weeks ago, I had dinner with Pete Lomas, the Raspberry Pi

• 124

  Where have you been, Liz?

  Huge apologies for going quiet on you. Eben and I have been on a skiing

• 449

  Pricing updates (good news!) from Element 14/Premier Farnell and RS Components

  As you may know if you've been reading our Twitter feed or hanging out in

• 118

  OpenELEC for Raspberry Pi

  The guys at OpenELEC, an embedded OS built specifically to run XBMC, have

• 66

  Raspberry Pi (momentarily) more popular than Lady Gaga…

  We've just been pointed at a graph from Google Trends by @thormagnusson on

• 196

  Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix is ready for download!

  Liz: Many thanks to all at Seneca College, and especially Chris Tyler, for

• 363

  Manufacturing hiccup

  It's inevitable, isn't it - you're freewheeling along perfectly happily and

• 111

  Adieu to the database errors!

  Because Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts is brilliant, the period the site was

• 57

  Server maintenance

  In the last month or so, we've steadily accumulated so many daily visitors

• 159

  Has your March/April order just been pushed back to May? Read this!

  We've had a lot of people mail us and tweet about this today. If you were

• 127

  Arch Linux ARM available for download

  Arch Linux ARM for Raspberry Pi is now ready to go! It's available now on

• 706

  And breathe…

  Well, that was an incredible week. For those of you just joining us, we

February 2012

• 554

  Ladies and gentlemen, set your alarms!

  The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be making a big (and very positive)

• 70

  A QR-code poster for all you guerrilla marketing types

  Jonas Butz, a high school student from Germany, was on Twitter the other

• 322

  Status update

  A brief status update for those of you wondering when boards are going to

• 157

  Fedora remix download delayed by a couple of days

  We've just had a message in the Fedora thread on our forum from Chris Tyler,

• 124

  Call for mirrors! (And a big thank you to Liam)

  Liz: Here's a post from Liam Fraser, who you may recognise from the forums,

• 145

  Video: about the upcoming Fedora Remix for Raspberry Pi

  Thanks to Chris Tyler and the team at Seneca College for all their work on

• 265

  Getting ready for launch: first root filesystem available for download

  I need to start this post with a huge thank you to Webfusion, who have

• 40

  Audio interview with Eben from NPR

  I'm running around from pillar to post a bit at the moment sorting out stuff

• 229

  Corrections and clarifications about some stuff you may have read in the press

  We've had a number of people contact us this morning about a teaser for an

• 236

  A teacher writes…

  Liz: This post is written by Clive, a Computing teacher from the UK who

• 358

  Two things you thought you weren’t going to get: a manufacturing date and an SoC datasheet

  I've got some bad and good news about manufacturing. The bad news is that

• 134

  Raspbmc announced: an XBMC for Raspberry Pi

  We've just seen an announcement via Sam Nazarko, who blogs as Stm

January 2012

• 307

  Libraries, codecs, OSS

  Here's a post from JamesH, one of the team working on the Raspberry Pi's

• 98

  Livecoding with Qt5 on the Raspberry Pi

  A quick Friday video. This is Qt5 with QML and OpenGL shaders, running a

• 240

  Getting ready for launch: kernel sources on GitHub

  As we wait for the first units to come back from the factory, Dom's been

• 250

  XBMC running on Raspberry Pi

  We wanted to keep the fact that XBMC is running beautifully on Raspberry Pi

• 143

  AirPlay and Raspberry Pi

  Here's some more video from Dom, one of our developers. It has cows in it.

• 60

  Slashdot video interview with Eben

  Eben was working on the Broadcom stand at CES as part of his day job last

• 39

  A Monday grab-bag of community cleverness

  We're very proud of the community at Raspberry Pi. If you haven't dipped a

• 177

  Raspberry Pi website to go dark on Jan 18 to protest against SOPA

  A protest against the proposed introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)

• 635

  We’ve started manufacture!

  Raspberry Pis started being made a couple of days ago, but I was forbidden

• 61

  Beta board bought by anonymous bidder and donated to museum

  Just when we thought the auctions experience couldn't get any more exciting,

• 130

  Auction update, factory video

  When we started auctioning beta Raspberry Pis to raise money for the charity

• 54

  CES 2012, Las Vegas

  Eben and I will be in Las Vegas for CES 2012 next week. Raspberry Pi doesn't

• 154

  The first auctions are live!

  You can bid for boards 10 and 09 by clicking on the links. I have just got