Blog archive for January 2014
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Happy New Year!
We're taking the day off today, but if you're thirsty for more about
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Mathematica and the Wolfram Language on Raspberry Pi
Have you been staring at the Mathematica and Wolfram Language icons on your
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News from Carrie Anne Philbin
Carrie Anne's end-of-year edition of Geek Gurl Diaries had some news in it
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Coping with Christmas – a guest post from our web hosts at Mythic Beasts
Liz: Here's a guest post from Pete Stevens at Mythic Beasts, our brilliant
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Welcome Dave!
Carrie Anne wasn't our only new starter on Monday: we've also welcomed Dave
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Automated decanter
I had mail from Jürgen Huber at Logi.cals, an Austrian software firm, who
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Wooden tablet: Michael Castor’s PiPad
I've actually held this project in my very own sweaty little hands: Michael
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Buy an 8GB NOOBS SD card for £5
When we announced our $40 Model B plus SD card bundle back in August, a lot
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A pure Python interface for the camera module: meet picamera!
Accessing the camera module directly from Python
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Test Tim’s new Scratch alpha
Over the last year, we've seen big improvements in Scratch performance on
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Poster competition update #1
We're moving offices at the moment (a long and agonising process which is
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Touchscreen point-and-shoot, from Adafruit
LadyAda from Adafruit is one of my very favourite people. We have a
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Poster competition update #2
Update 21/1/14: Thanks for all of your entries, we've been overwhelmed by
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Chocolate Joy Jacket
A quick post today: I'm in Cardiff with Lorna, who you may have spoken to if
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Limelight: who needs a Steam Machine when you have a Pi?
I don't think there's anyone here at Pi Towers who doesn't use Steam for PC
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Triviabox: a DIY quiz show setup
Sandy Walsh thought it'd be cool to host a trivia night in his living room.
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Give us your best (Mathematica) one-liner
Here's another guest post from Allison Taylor at Wolfram, which is part of a
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A video that made us cry
A little-known fact: Eben and I are disgustingly sentimental. So when Matt
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A sneak peek at some content from our new website
As you may have gathered from large hints we've been dropping, we're partway
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David Cameron talks Pi at Davos
We've just seen this: Prime Minister David Cameron's speech to the World
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Forums down this weekend for maintenance
We've had an issue this afternoon with some corruption in the forums
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Forums are back
We've rolled the forum database tables back to a snapshot taken around 2am
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Ooh, BETTy (look, it’s Sunday morning, it’s the best I can do)
The RPF Education Team is just back from BETT, the education technology
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Dave Hunt’s time-lapse touchscreen controller
Regular readers will know Dave Hunt well. He's behind some of the...no,
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Music hack of the decade: Panflute Hero!
Jhonny Göransson was part of the team that made what's simply the daftest
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Laika Explorer: what it’s like to build a Raspberry Pi accessory startup
A lot of companies are building Raspberry Pi add-ons - Raspberry Pi
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Accelerating Fourier transforms using the GPU
Andrew Holme is well known to regular blog readers, as the creator of the
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GPS-tracking helmet cam
Martin O'Hanlon's a familiar name in these parts, especially for fans of
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NOOBS SD cards back in the Swag Store!
The 8GB pre-flashed NOOBS SD cards we had in the Swag Store sold out pretty