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libraries

Beyond the bookcase

Exploring Raspberry Pi’s role in the transformation of libraries in the digital age
This column is from The MagPi issue 49. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve its charitable goals. Before I... Continue reading

Call me Ishmael

A retro phone becomes a Pi-powered book recommendation device
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink”. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. “When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed right there in his bed into some sort of monstrous insect”. “It was the day my grandmother exploded”. The opening line of... Continue reading

American Library Association Annual Conference 2016

Raspberry Pi visits the American Library Association's annual conference and exhibition.
Here at Raspberry Pi, we get to attend all sorts of exciting events, from Maker Faires and Raspberry Jams to education and technology gatherings. So far, we have never made it to the American Library Association’s annual conference and exhibition. There’s a first time for everything, though, so at the end of June, Matt, Courtney,... Continue reading

Success for Code Clubs in South Wales libraries

Code Clubs aren't just for schools!
It’s four o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon, and, in an old Victorian library in a small town in South Wales, big things are happening. The computer room is crammed with children, all intently focused and engaged. Working independently or in pairs, they are building games and animations in Scratch. This is the Penarth Library Code... Continue reading

Community, coffee and classrooms in Nicaragua

Liz: Today's guest post is from David Mitchell, who emailed me last week
Liz: Today’s guest post is from David Mitchell, who emailed me last week about some work he’s been doing in Nicaragua with the Raspberry Pi, both at a community level and in a local business environment. We thought that what he’s doing is a real exemplar of how Raspberry Pi can offer whole communities a let... Continue reading

Accelerating Fourier transforms using the GPU

Andrew Holme is well known to regular blog readers, as the creator of the
Andrew Holme is well known to regular blog readers, as the creator of the awesome (and fearsomely clever) homemade GPS receiver. Over the last few months he’s been experimenting with writing general purpose code for the VideoCore IV graphics processing unit (GPU) in the BCM2835, the microchip at the heart of the Raspberry Pi, to create... Continue reading