Wonderful, seems to be a positive response so far. Part of my thinking is sending them with a lesson plan/ idea of where to start as well so that it doesn't feel like they were being thrown in the deep end. Now I just need to find the time to start this up! (Bring on the Easter holiday) Any news on...

Wonderful, seems to be a positive response so far. Part of my thinking is sending them with a lesson plan/ idea of where to start as well so that it doesn't feel like they were being thrown in the deep end. Now I just need to find the time to start this up! (Bring on the Easter holiday)

Hello all, On the Saturday of the Pi birthday weekend I did a talk about my experience with the new primary coding curriculum. I happened to (rather off handedly) say that I managed to get my school a set of Pis by tweeting (you don't ask, you don't get!). At the end of the talk someone asked how I ...

That got it working! Thank you so much, never seen a class so excited about flashing lights!

Thanks for the advice, I've wiped the SD card and reinstalled everything. My issue now is that it seems to have taken up all the space on the SD card (only 8 GB) so it now won't start when I type startx... it just takes a long time then comes up with an error message ('no protocol specified'). After...

I won't even try to lie, I'm a learner Raspberry Pi user. My school just received the Astro Pi had that I requested and I can't seem to make it run properly. I've installed everything properly (according to the given instruction). In the instructions it says after the reboot the rainbow LED lights s...