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- This term, we’ve started to see the beginnings of school applications of Raspberry Pis. We’ve been taking a lot of orders from teachers in the UK, and we’re very pleased to see teachers elsewhere catching on to the project too; I’m talking to a number of charitable bodies and businesses around the world who are… … Continue reading →
- Earlier this month, young creators gathered at the Sport Ireland Campus National Indoor Training Centre in Dublin for Coolest Projects Ireland 2025, an inspiring showcase of creativity, coding, and problem solving. With more than 80 participants sharing over 60 incredible projects, this year’s event highlighted the passion and innovation of young creators from across Northern… … Continue reading →
- We love hearing from members of the community and sharing the stories of amazing young people, volunteers, and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. When Daniela made the transition from working in retail to joining the team at Thetford Library, she never imagined that… … Continue reading →
- From crafting interactive stories to designing captivating games, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s coding projects offer a hands-on approach to learning, igniting creativity and developing the skills young people need, like perseverance and problem-solving. In this blog, I explore two of my favourite projects that young coders will love. Our projects are free and open to… … Continue reading →
- Through Code Club and CoderDojo we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. The clubs network reaches young people in 126 countries across the globe, and we estimate that the 4,557 Code Clubs and 771 CoderDojos are attended by more than 200,000 young people globally. All these clubs are… … Continue reading →
- One of the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s core values is our focus on impact. This means that we are committed to learning from the best available evidence, and to being rigorous and transparent about the difference we’re making. Like many charities, an important part of our approach to achieving and measuring our impact is our theory… … Continue reading →
- We partner with educational organisations around the world to bring coding activities to young people in their regions through Code Club and CoderDojo. Currently involving 52 organisations in 41 countries, this Global Clubs Partner network shares our passion for empowering kids to create with technology. A key aspect of how we foster the Global Clubs… … Continue reading →
- Since November, registration is open for Mission Space Lab, part of the European Astro Pi Challenge 2023/24. The Astro Pi Challenge is an ESA Education project run in collaboration with us here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation that gives young people up to age 19 the amazing opportunity to write computer programs that run on… … Continue reading →
- At the heart of our work as a charity is the aim to democratise access to digital skills and technologies. Since 2020, we have partnered with over 100 youth and community organisations in the UK to develop programmes that increase opportunities for young people experiencing educational disadvantage to engage and create with digital technology in… … Continue reading →
- In our series of community stories, we celebrate some of the amazing young people and educators who are using their passion for technology to create positive change in the world around them. In our latest story, we’re sharing the inspiring journey of St Joseph’s Secondary School in Rush, Ireland. Over the past few years, the… … Continue reading →
- I am delighted to announce that the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind are building a global network of educational organisations to bring AI literacy to teachers and students all over the world, starting with Canada, Kenya, and Romania. Experience AI We launched Experience AI in September 2022 to help teachers and students learn about… … Continue reading →
- On 24 and 25 March, more than 140 members of the Code Club and CoderDojo communities joined us in Cambridge for our first-ever Clubs Conference. At the Clubs Conference, volunteers and educators came together to celebrate their achievements and explore new ways to support young people to create with technology. The event included community display… … Continue reading →
- Volunteers and educators involved in CoderDojo and Code Club are invited to our Clubs Conference at Churchill College, Cambridge from 24-25 March 2023. … Continue reading →
- At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we engage young people in learning about computing and creating with digital technologies. We do this not only by developing curricula for formal education and introducing tens of thousands of children around the world to coding at home, but also through supporting non-formal learning activities such as Code Club and… … Continue reading →
- In Hello World issue 18, available as a free PDF download, teacher Michael Jones shares how to use Teachable Machine with learners aged 13–14 in your classroom to investigate issues of accuracy and ethics in machine learning models. Machine learning: Accuracy and ethics The landscape for working with machine learning/AI/deep learning has grown considerably over… … Continue reading →
- You may have heard a lot about coding and how important it is for children to start learning about coding as early as possible. Computers have become part of our lives, and we’re not just talking about the laptop or desktop computer you might have in your home or on your desk at work. Your… … Continue reading →
- It’s wonderful hearing from people in the community about what learning and teaching digital making means to them and how it impacts their lives. So far, our community stories series has involved young creators, teachers, and mentors from the UK and US, India, Romania, and Ireland, who are all dedicated to making positive change in… … Continue reading →
- In Hello World issue 12, our free magazine for computing educators, George Boukeas, DevOps Engineer for the Astro Pi Challenge here at the Foundation, introduces big moments in the history of artificial intelligence (AI) to share with your learners: The story of artificial intelligence (AI) is a story about humans trying to understand what makes… … Continue reading →
- AI is a broad and rapidly developing field of technology. Our goal is to make sure all young people have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to use and create AI systems. So what should AI education in schools look like? To hear a range of insights into this, we organised a panel discussion as part… … Continue reading →
- We are inviting you all to a very special event this week: the CoderDojo team is hosting a 10th birthday livestream to celebrate the CoderDojo community and all that they have achieved over the last ten years. Everyone is welcome, so mark your diary and make sure you and your favourite young coders join us… … Continue reading →
- Hi there, We seem to have ended up with lots of cool retro things on the blog recently. An old iPod classic was turned into a Spotify music player, and we learnt how to make old games consoles compatible with modern TVs. It was also wonderful to see a whopping 214 teams of young people… … Continue reading →
- With so many people all over the world still living in various levels of lockdown, we’ve been working hard to provide free, creative project resources for you to keep young digital makers occupied, learning, and most importantly having fun. As a dad of two, I know how useful it is to have resources and project… … Continue reading →
- It’s the time of the year again, where the Raspberry Pi Foundation runs its yearly Astro Pi Challenge… … Continue reading →
- Hola, We were so pleased that our Director of Educator Support, Carrie Anne Philbin, was awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020. She is one of the very first employees of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and a fantastic role model and source of inspiration to her colleagues, educators,… … Continue reading →
- This week’s live-stream coding session had us creating a galactic animation! In case you missed it, it’s available… … Continue reading →
- We are thrilled that five fantastic people will contribute to the Coolest Projects online showcase: Tim Peake, Limor Fried, Mitch Resnick, Hayaatun Sillem, and Eben Upton are going to be our special judges and choose their favourite projects from among all the entries from young tech creators in our global community. Meet the coolest judges!… … Continue reading →
- Switch to our regular privacy policy. Who we are The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity that wants to help children and young people all over the world explore computing and digital technologies. We have projects to help you learn to code online and we run computing clubs and events, including Code Clubs, Experience AI,… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! If you’re in an ESA Member State, this weekend is the perfect time to sit down and help a team submit their code for Astro Pi Mission Zero. If you’re not in an ESA Member State, you can still fill your weekend with Raspberry Pi goodness by downloading the latest issue of The… … Continue reading →
- Every year for the last five years, Hour of Code has encouraged school students to spend just one hour writing some code, in the hope that they get bitten by the bug rather than generating too many bugs! This year, you can find activities from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Code Club, and CoderDojo on the… … Continue reading →
- Happy Margarita Friday, one and all! Whoever says that 2 o’clock on a Friday afternoon is too early for tequila-based beverages is entirely wrong — and after a week of the Comms team being VERY ill, we deserve it. This week, we saw the official release of HackSpace magazine’s Book of Making volume 1, The… … Continue reading →
- Astro Pi is back and we’re absolutely buzzing with excitment. If you don’t know what Astro Pi is, where have you been? check out our new video. And then check out our other new video! And while we have your attention, be sure to also vote for your favourite Raspberry Pi projects for issue 75… … Continue reading →
- Ollo! While we slowly melt in the heat here in Cambridge, the internet has been aflutter with amazing projects and news, such as synesthiser, the accessible musical instrument, and the announcement of the 2018–19 European Astro Pi Challenge. So sit back, grab a nice cold beverage, and enjoy the wares of this week’s Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- Happy birthday, CoderDojo ? Seven years ago today, on 23 July, James Whelton and Bill Liao held the first-ever CoderDojo session in Cork, Ireland. When that first group of volunteers and young people (Ninjas) came together to learn how to make a website, design a game, or write their first program, they never imagined how… … Continue reading →
- The end of the academic year is here, and we are marking the occasion by celebrating teachers from all over the world. Since last September, we’ve run a whole host of programmes that teachers have been involved in. From training with us at Picademy to building apocalyptic projects for Pioneers, from running Code Clubs, Dojos,… … Continue reading →
- Umbrella trees, giant mushrooms, and tiny museums. A light-up Lovelace, LED cubes, LED eyelashes, and LED coding (we have a bit of a thing for LEDs). Magic cocktails, melted ice creams, and the coolest hot dog around. Face paint masterpieces, swag bags, and bingo. More stickers than a laptop can cope with, a flock of… … Continue reading →
- This week, the ten winning Astro Pi Mission Space Lab teams got to take part in a video conference with ESA Astronaut Tim Peake! A brief history of Astro Pi In 2014, Raspberry Pi Foundation partnered with the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency to fly two Raspberry Pi computers to the International… … Continue reading →
- Hello everyone, This week, issue 5 of Hello World is out, and Astro Pi Mission Space Lab data is in! Check out the Astro Pi Twitter feed for wonderful images of Earth from space, captured by code written by students and run on Raspberry Pis on the International Space Station. We also discovered Brian Mix’s… … Continue reading →
- It’s Friday! This week we announced Raspberry Fields, our two-day digital making festival in Cambridge, UK — you’re all invited! Volunteer your time or book your tickets today. We also watched the launch of the Russian Soyuz MS-08 on Wednesday, which had upgrades for our Astro Pi units on board. And if that’s not enough of… … Continue reading →
- Each year we take stock at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, looking back at what we’ve achieved over the previous twelve months. We’ve just published our Annual Review for 2017, reflecting on the progress we’ve made as a foundation and a community towards putting the power of digital making in the hands of people all over… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, It’s been a week for cool builds, as highlighted on the Raspberry Pi blog. And they’re a great distraction from the heartbreak at Pi Towers, as we watch Dave Honess, leader of the Astro Pi programme here at Pi Towers, pack up his desk and head off to his new job at the… … Continue reading →
- In September of last year, we launched our 2017/2018 Astro Pi challenge with our partners at the European Space Agency (ESA). Students from ESA membership and associate countries had the chance to design science experiments and write code to be run on one of our two Raspberry Pis on the International Space Station (ISS). Submissions… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, Raspberry Pi Weekly-ers, and welcome to this issue of our newsletter! This week saw the release of HackSpace magazine issue 4, some very splendid projects from the community, and a stream of happy tweets from Astro Pi participants across Europe as their Mission Zero certificates are beginning to arrive. Have a great week,… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday to you all! Are you attending a Raspberry Jam during our Big Birthday Weekend? Find your local event here, and be sure to share the excitement on social media using #RJam. On Tuesday, we all eagerly watched a car being launched into space, and this week also marked another out-of-this-world celebration: the 10th… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, one and all! Our social media followers have been sending us some awesome projects this week, including the spooky builds featured in our Halloween special. For those who didn’t manage to enter Astro Pi Mission Space Lab: you can still get your code into space with Mission Zero. And don’t forget, you also… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, The 2017-18 Astro Pi challenge is now open! This time we’re offering two missions, one of which guarantees getting your code into space. Teams of school students across Europe and even beyond can take part. To celebrate, we’re telling you all about the astounding things you can achieve with the Sense HAT, the… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, everyone! It’s been an excellent week here at Raspberry Pi! We’ve launched our new season of Pioneers, challenging young digital makers to team up and create something to save humankind during an epic calamity. Moreover, we’ll be sending a new payload to the International Space Station to upgrade our Astro Pis and make… … Continue reading →
- This week we saw the end of the European Astro Pi Challenge, and winning students across ESA countries received their data back from the International Space Station. With Thomas Pesquet returning to earth today after a successful Proxima mission, we look forward to future Astro Pi Challenges. This June we’ve changed our colours in support… … Continue reading →
- The 2017 UK Space Conference is set to be the best and biggest ever. Held every two years, this flagship event brings together the entire Space community, including government, industry, academia, end users, education providers, researchers, and the financial community. This year, the event will be held in Manchester from 30 May to 1 June.… … Continue reading →
- Hello! This week, everyone (well, except Jonic) wanted phrazelle‘s amazing Pi-powered steampunk laptop. With a step-by-step guide on instructables, we can all have one, too… if we want it enough. There’s a chance to join our US team, with a vacancy for a Bay Area-based Educator Training Manager. We’re looking for someone who is passionate… … Continue reading →
- Maker Faire UK is the greatest show and tell on Earth! Taking place on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April 2017 at the Life Science Centre in Newcastle, it’s a two-day family-friendly festival of invention and creativity. Come and find us at the Raspberry Pi Foundation stand, where we will be running an exciting range… … Continue reading →
- With a special message from French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the ISS, this week saw the winner announcements for the first European Astro Pi challenge. We were blown away by the projects that came from schools across all the ESA countries, and we look forward to seeing the results of their experiments in space. We also… … Continue reading →
- Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Grace Owolade-Coombes runs the fantastically inclusive South London Raspberry Jam with her son Femi. In this guest post, she gives us the low-down on how the Jam got started. Enjoy! Our Jam has been running for over a year now; we’ve had three really big events and one smaller family hack day. Let me… … Continue reading →
- The Cambridge office must have been very quiet last week, as staff from across the Raspberry Pi Foundation exhibited at the Bett Show 2017. Avid readers will note that at the UK’s largest educational technology event, held in London across four days, we tend to go all out. This year was no exception, as we… … Continue reading →
- An evening of stargazing, space activities, cosmology chat and talks at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, with activities taking place on board HMS Warrior 1860 and Action Stations. Try some exciting Astro Pi challenges suitable for all skill levels, hear about the new activities on the International Space Station as well as Tim Peake’s previous involvement and get… … Continue reading →
- Hello there! This week has been full of news, events and interesting wonderment. From Eben receiving his CBE from HRH Prince Charles and a new security update for Raspbian to the second phase of Astro Pi and some famous guy getting Twitter in a tizzy. We’ve also started to get a little festive, and will… … Continue reading →
- What could you do in an hour? Perhaps you could watch an episode of a TV show, have a luxurious bath, or even tidy the house a bit! But what if you could spend an hour learning a skill that might influence the future of your career, and perhaps your whole life? The Hour of… … Continue reading →
- Hello there! Welcome to this week’s edition of Raspberry Pi Weekly. It’s packed with interesting news such as the recent Pi integration with the Particle Cloud, fun projects including a gesture-controlled music player and Raspberry Pi astrophotography, and fascinating articles including an installation that uses a Pi to generate music from bacterial activity as well as… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, This week has been sponsored by kittens. Kittens, lollipops, and hilarious IoT projects. We’ve got the lowdown from the brilliant Raspberry Pi Challenge at the University of York, plus our friend the Raspberry Pi Guy racing through Cambridge on his Pi-powered skateboard. You only have until this Sunday, 13 November, to apply for the ESA… … Continue reading →
- Hi there, Things are a little spooky here at Pi Towers as we draw ever closer to Halloween. So why not have a go at our Spooky Spot the Difference or build your own Pumpkin Light Effect with a Pi and Pimoroni Blinkt!? The MagPi team have had a busy week releasing both Issue 51… … Continue reading →
- Last month, we celebrated the milestone of ten million Raspberry Pi computers sold to date. That’s quite extraordinary, and we’re thrilled to have reached so many people, not just through selling computers, but through our educational programmes and outreach activities. Our successes come in no small part from the support of our wonderful community, and… … Continue reading →
- Hi there, The Raspberry Pi community has been the hot topic of the week, with social media buzzing over the hashtag #PiCommunity, celebrating the people and projects that have helped to shape the journey of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In other exciting news, this week saw the launch of the new Astro Pi Challenge, allowing… … Continue reading →
- Oh, hi there, There’s so many opportunities to ‘get your Pi on’ over the next few months. From a Pi Towers Raspberry Jam, to Matt Richardson visiting Micro Center, to Astro Pi and more, things seem to be getting really social in the community of late. It’s got so busy that I decided to turn this… … Continue reading →
- If this post gives you a sense of déjà-vu it’s because, last month, we announced a web-based Sense HAT emulator in partnership with US-based startup Trinket. Today, we’re announcing another Sense HAT emulator designed to run natively on your Raspberry Pi desktop, instead of inside a browser. Developed by Dave Jones, it’s intended for people who own… … Continue reading →
- Hello from Pi Towers! This week, we continued to prove that the sky is no longer the limit, starting off with Skycademy 2016 (where Dan Fisher finally tells the tale of the time we were locked inside a military rifle range), continuing with the launch of the Sense HAT Emulator, and finishing with the Astro Pi 2015… … Continue reading →
- Hey there, What a week for Raspberry Pi publications. The MagPi 47 hit shelves with an awesome Tim Peake poster and Astro Pi badge, while the Essentials collection gained a new edition with ‘#5: Learn to Code with Scratch’. If that’s not enough, it’s also been the week of the Zero360, Project Bloks, and Superstar Hannah. I… … Continue reading →
- Discover a galaxy of ideas, projects, and workshops with Raspberry Pi at Bett Show 2017. We can be found in the STEAM Village and at the adjacent stand (G460). BROWSE OUR FULL TIMETABLE OF WORKSHOPS With STEAM Village talks, drop-in pods, and over 60 workshops running over the four days of the show, our team of… … Continue reading →
- Hi all, In a first for Raspberry Pi Weekly, this issue comes from someone other than Ben, who is away on a UK camping holiday. We wish him all the luck in the world. This week, we announced the winners of our 2016 Astro Pi Coding Challenges. British ESA astronaut Tim Peake will use their… … Continue reading →
- Hi This week the Foundation started shipping kits to schools for the big weather station project – great news for the 1000 schools around the world who have been in eager anticipation. This announcement comes with the launch of a number of learning resources related to weather (some require the kit, some do not) which… … Continue reading →
- Hi This week, we saw Astro Pi Izzy tweeting photos she’d taken through the window of the ISS. It’s pretty amazing to think Izzy and Ed are running programs written by schoolchildren. See the photos on Twitter – more to follow! @astro_pi_ir Next month, the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists are showcasing their amazing projects at a special exhibition… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone Last weekend was the big Raspberry Pi birthday weekend, which you can read about on Philip’s round-up. There are 3 weeks to go in the Astro Pi coding challenges – a chance for UK schools to compete to have their code sent into space, specifically a Sense HAT MP3 player, and a piece… … Continue reading →
- In this resource you will explore SpaceCRAFT, the primary school winning entry in the Astro Pi competition. SpaceCRAFT was conceived by Hannah Belshaw of Cumnor Girls School and created by Martin O’Hanlon for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and is a way of viewing data captured by the Astro Pi computer on the ISS using Minecraft. … Continue reading →
- On Monday 29 February, we celebrated the fourth (or first) birthday of the Raspberry Pi computer by giving a little gift to the community in the form of the Raspberry Pi 3. A lot more power, with built in wireless LAN and Bluetooth, for the same great price of $35. On 5 and 6 March,… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone You’ll notice today’s issue has a new look: this comes with the news that Pi Weekly has become the official Raspberry Pi newsletter and has been moved to a new home at raspberrypi.org/weekly. All the old issues are archived there, and the newsletter will continue to go out every week in the usual… … Continue reading →
- During the last week of July, Raspberry Pi and Code Club will be taking over the Science Tent at Camp Bestival, set in the majestic grounds of Lulworth Castle. Camp Bestival is a multi-award-winning festival that combines an all-encompassing family festival experience with an action-packed holiday. This year, the theme is “Space”, which coincides with British… … Continue reading →
- Between February and May, we’ll be working with the Royal Institution delivering various Masterclasses in Computer Science around the country. Masterclass organisers invite nearby schools to nominate students to attend the masterclasses, led by industry professionals. Our Masterclasses will be centred around Astro Pi, raising awareness of the Principia Mission and our involvement with astronaut Tim Peake. Pupils… … Continue reading →
- Hi all There’s a new Raspbian release – read all about it on the link below, and do check out the documentation for the latest GPIO Zero release. If you have access to a 3D printer, you can now 3D print your own Astro Pi flight case, just like the (space grade aluminium) ones Tim… … Continue reading →
- Hi This week the first of the two Astro Pi units aboard the International Space Station was powered up by Tim Peake. An animation has been released by the Foundation to mark the occasion, telling the story of the two Pis that were selected for the mission, named Ed and Izzie. Also, a set of… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone The Foundation bid a fond farewell home of four years at Mount Pleasant House as they move in to new bigger offices by Cambridge Station. In other news, the latest issue of The MagPi is out now, and you can even download a special edition made for the Bett Show – the educator’s… … Continue reading →
- Today we’re delighted to welcome two new colleagues to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and to launch a recruitment campaign to find even more outstanding people to join our growing team. First, meet the new arrivals! Oliver Quinlan is joining the Foundation as Research Manager. Oliver joins us from Nesta where he has been part of… … Continue reading →
- Welcome to our Bett Show 2016 event page! Our Bett Show 2016 workshop timetable Join the Raspberry Pi Education Team at Bett Show 2016, the annual British ed-tech show. We’ll be at ExCel London from 20th to 23rd January 2016. With over 60 workshops and talks running over the four days, our team of Raspberry Pi in… … Continue reading →
- Use the Python `requests` module to access the *People in Space API*, and create an indicator to show the number of people currently in space. British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake will be going to the International Space Station on 15th December 2015, so this is a great activity to do in time for his arrival.… … Continue reading →
- Hour of Code is a worldwide initiative to get as many people as possible to have a go at programming computers. Each December for the past couple of years, educators, tech businesses and non-profits alike have made a big push to get kids and adults to try their hand at writing a few lines of… … Continue reading →
- This year Mozilla Festival is taking place at Ravensbourne College in London (next to the O2 arena) on 7-8 November. Map here. This is Mozilla’s annual hands-on festival (affectionately known as MozFest) and is dedicated to forging the future of the open Web. It’s where passionate technologists, educators and creators unite to hack on innovative… … Continue reading →
- Part of the background to my day-to-day life at work is the steady flow of emails showing me which of our learning resources my colleagues in Raspberry Pi’s education team are developing, discussing or updating at the moment. We use GitHub to manage our content and collaborate, and I get notifications that tell me about… … Continue reading →
- In this activity, you will learn how to use the Sense HAT hardware to build a data logging device which can capture a range of information about its immediate environment. The Python program you write will mimic the function of a program being run by British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake as part of the Astro… … Continue reading →
- PyConUK is one of the Education Team’s favourite events of the year. We love the fact that as well as being a great community developer event, they also run an Education track for kids and teachers to learn and share. It started with one of the organisers, Zeth, humorously holding up a wall clock saying… … Continue reading →
- Yesterday we welcomed a new member of staff to the Foundation’s growing Education Team. Marc Scott is a former teacher, joining as our new Head of Curriculum. Marc used to run a Raspberry Pi and Minecraft club at his old school, where he taught Computer Science, and Systems and Control. Marc also used to write all his… … Continue reading →
- Liz: As regular readers will know, Raspberry Pi is a charity. We’re split into two parts: the Raspberry Pi Foundation is the charitable body, and it owns Raspberry Pi Trading, the part of the organisation that develops the hardware you all buy. All the profit we make in Raspberry Pi Trading goes straight to the Raspberry… … Continue reading →
- The Sense HAT is an add-on board for Raspberry Pi, made especially for the Astro Pi mission – it launched to the International Space Station in December 2015 – and is now available to buy. The Sense HAT has an 8×8 RGB LED matrix, a five-button joystick and includes the following sensors: Gyroscope Accelerometer Magnetometer… … Continue reading →
- In this resource you will explore the Sense HAT hardware and its Python library. The Sense HAT, which is a fundamental part of the Astro Pi Mission, allows your Raspberry Pi to sense the world around it.You will learn how to control the LED matrix, collect sensor data from the world around you, and combine… … Continue reading →
- Having looked at the chunky outside goodness of the Astro Pi case yesterday it seems only fair to take another look at the heart of the Astro Pi, the Sense HAT. (This is not a conical cap that you put on the really clever kid and stand him in the corner but our add-on board… … Continue reading →
- This week PyCon is going on in Montreal – it’s the big worldwide Python conference – and for the occasion, O’Reilly asked our friend Nicholas Tollervey to write a free short book on Python in Education. The book tells the story of Python, why Python is a good language for learning, how its community gives… … Continue reading →
- Last Tuesday the Raspberry Pi education team beetled down to the ExCeL London for Bett, the gargantuan learning technology event. We spent the next four days on our new and fabulous stand talking, educating, demo-ing, entertaining, showboating, dancing and gerrymandering. There were astounding demonstrations of technological ingenuity, feats of strength and curious electro-mechanical devices. We… … Continue reading →
- On Wednesday 21st January 2015, the ExCeL in London opens its doors to the world’s leading educational technology show. As well as being a trade show, BETT provides an opportunity for attendees to hear world-famous speakers like education visionary Sir Ken Robinson and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talk; to meet like-minded teachers, academics and technicians to… … Continue reading →
- Have you heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, but haven’t tried any of them yourself? Navigating the world of large language models (LLMs) might feel a bit daunting. However, with the right approach, these tools can really enhance your teaching and make classroom admin and planning easier and quicker. That’s where the OCEAN prompting process… … Continue reading →
- We love hearing from members of the community and sharing the stories of inspiring young people, volunteers, and educators all over the world who have a passion for technology. With this latest story, we’re taking you to Leeds, UK, to meet Micah, a young space enthusiast whose confidence has soared since he started attending a… … Continue reading →
- It’s the last week of Black History Month 2024 in the USA, but by no means is the celebration over. The beautiful thing about history is that it’s not an isolated narrative about the past, but an ongoing dialogue in which we talk about how our collective past informs our present, and what more can… … Continue reading →
- In 2016, Code Club Australia launched the Moonhack online coding event and broke the world record for the most children coding in one day. Then in 2017 they broke the record again. By now, more than 150,000 young learners from 70 countries have participated in Moonhack. Moonhack is an online coding challenge for young learners… … Continue reading →
- The year is drawing to a close, and we are so excited for 2021! More than 700 young people from 39 countries shared their tech creations in the free Coolest Projects online showcase this year! We loved seeing so many young people shine with their creative projects, and we can’t wait to see what the… … Continue reading →
- Hey digital makers, are you all secretly astronauts? Because your projects are always out of this world! That’s… … Continue reading →