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- If you missed this week’s live code-along session with Mr. C, Zac, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO… … Continue reading →
- Computational thinking (CT) comprises a set of skills that are fundamental to computing and being taught in more and more schools across the world. There has been much debate about the details of what CT is and how it should be approached in education, particularly for younger students. In our research seminar this week, we… … Continue reading →
- Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people can learn about using the Sense HAT — or its emulator — with us! With Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to do some colourful… … Continue reading →
- There’s no question that families have faced disruptions and tough challenges over the last few months. For the parents and carers who’ve been supporting their children with learning at home, it can feel overwhelming, stressful, rewarding — or all three! As many children are still carrying on with learning at home, we are supporting them… … Continue reading →
- It’s time for YOU to use code to put the “POW” in “KAPOW” and the “BOOM” in “KABOOM”.… … Continue reading →
- Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people can learn about encryption and e-safety with us! With Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to decode a secret message with us: Check out this… … Continue reading →
- Welcome to your dedicated Learn at Home page! We hope you’re enjoying your Raspberry Pi computer and it’s helping you with your school work. Educational resources Your teachers have information about the websites and platforms your school uses to set and mark work. We can also recommend the following free, high-quality educational resources: Oak National… … Continue reading →
- Join us for Digital Making at Home: this week, young people get to make sports games in Scratch! With Digital Making at Home, we invite kids all over the world to code along with us and our new videos every week. So get ready to exercise your digital making skills with us: Check out this… … Continue reading →
- Let the games begin! Take your best shot this week, digital makers: we invite you to have some… … Continue reading →
- It’s time to get into the best shape of our lives, and that’s the three-dimensional kind of course!… … Continue reading →
- “In my vision, the child programs the computer and, in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intimate contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.” – Seymour Papert, Mindstorms:… … Continue reading →
- Swimming costume? Check! Goggles? Double check! Swimming fins? Triple check! There’s a whole world to discover under the… … Continue reading →
- With changes to school and work around the world, many parents and carers still aren’t sure what to expect over the next few weeks. While some children have returned to school, we know that many young people and families are still learning and working at home. We’re providing lots of free extra resources for young… … Continue reading →
- As a digital maker, you’re also an artist! Painters paint, writers write, and you express your imagination using… … Continue reading →
- Ready…Set…we’re on the go this week and making it move in ways that we didn’t know we could… … Continue reading →
- “In the near future, perhaps sooner than we think, virtually everyone will need a basic understanding of the technologies that underpin machine learning and artificial intelligence.” — from the 2018 Informatics Europe & EUACM report about machine learning As the quote above highlights, AI and machine learning (ML) are increasingly affecting society and will continue… … Continue reading →
- When things start to slow down, all it takes is a little creativity to bring the shine back… … Continue reading →
- Thank you for letting us know that your Raspberry Jam is sending out activities or challenges for your regular attendees to do in their own time. We call these “virtual clubs”, guidance to running a virtual club can be found on our website. You may be interested to hear that Coolest Projects is back!… … 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 →
- Say “yes” to yourselves, digital makers! This is a time for us to take care of ourselves, and… … Continue reading →
- Digital Making at Home officially launched six weeks ago…SIX WEEKS AGO! Hooray to us for continuing to practice… … Continue reading →
- With millions of schools still in lockdown, parents have been telling us that they need help to support their children with learning computing at home. As well as providing loads of great content for young people, we’ve been working on support tutorials specifically for parents who want to understand and learn about the programmes used… … Continue reading →
- If you want to code along with educators from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to make some music, click… … Continue reading →
- Do you hear that, digital makers? That catchy tune, getting louder and louder? With all sorts of instruments… … Continue reading →
- Click here to view our Earth Day code-along videos! We hope everyone had a lovely Earth Day this… … Continue reading →
- This week for Digital Making at Home, we’re coming together to code for a special occasion. Can you… … Continue reading →
- Welcome to the first-ever Digital Making at Home project showcase! The whole team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation… … Continue reading →
- Welcome back for another exciting week of Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! Get ready… … Continue reading →
- Welcome back for another exciting week of Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! Get ready to keep the coding going, and if you’re joining us for the first time, we’re so thrilled to have you! All of the stories you sent us from across the world last week were not only super… … Continue reading →
- On Wednesday, we hosted the first-ever Cambridge Computing Education Research Symposium online. Research in computing education, particularly in school and for young people, is a young field compared to maths and science education, and we do not have much in terms of theoretical foundations. It is not a field that has received a lot of… … Continue reading →
- Welcome back to Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! If you’re joining us for the… … Continue reading →
- Welcome back to Digital Making at Home from the Raspberry Pi Foundation! If you’re joining us for the first time this week, welcome: you’re now part of a global movement with other young digital makers from all over the world. You’re in great company, friend! You all CRUSHED making your own games last week, so… … Continue reading →
- When you’re part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation community, you’re a part of a global family of young… … Continue reading →
- When you’re part of the Raspberry Pi Foundation community, you’re a part of a global family of young creators who bring things to life with the power of digital making. We imagine that, given the current changes we’re all navigating, there are probably more of you who are interested in creating new and exciting things… … Continue reading →
- At the Raspberry Pi Foundation, our mission is to put the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world. We know that a lot of families around the globe are navigating school closures and practicing social distancing right now to keep their communities healthy and safe. So in… … Continue reading →
- If you’re someone who is new to the community, welcome! Please note that there are some restrictions on new Code Club, CoderDojo, and Raspberry Jam registrations at this time In this unprecedented time, you should follow the local public health advice in your country or region and take decisions on whether to cancel your club… … Continue reading →
- Update 13 March 2020: The research symposium will now be held online on 1 April! We have made this decision to allow us, and you, to plan for it with certainty, given that the Novel Coronavirus situation is changing daily. Book your free place today! Unfortunately, the pre-symposium events on Tuesday 31 March are cancelled.… … Continue reading →
- Symposium Keynote Presentations Posters Submissions How can we design research that supports young people as creators? Dr Natalie Rusk, MIT Media Lab About Natalie Natalie Rusk is one of the creators of Scratch and is a Research Scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. She is the lead author of the Scratch… … Continue reading →
- These are the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s livestreamed videos for young people all over the world! We chat, code together, hear from cool people, and see amazing digital making projects from kids who love making with technology. Subscribe on YouTube to get notifications whenever we release new videos on our channel! … Continue reading →
- After launching our Gender Balance in Computing programme this April, we have been busy recruiting for two trials within a small group of schools around England. Today, we are opening general recruitment for the programme. This means that all primary and secondary schools in England can now take part in the upcoming trials in this… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! It’s a three-day weekend here in the UK, and we plan on spending our time out in the sun. If, like us, you’re going to find yourself with more time on your hands than usual, we have a plethora of projects for you to try, including our latest video tutorial showing you how to… … Continue reading →
- We want to bring computing and digital making to people all over the world, which means making our learning resources available in as many languages as possible. Computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation are useful to us, but at the heart of our translation efforts are volunteer translators. Many of these volunteer translators were already… … Continue reading →
- I am excited to reveal that a consortium of partners has been awarded £2.4 million for a new research project to investigate how to engage more girls in computing, as part of our work with the National Centre for Computing Education. The award comes at a crucial time in computing education, after research by the… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, This week, we launched the new official Raspberry Pi keyboard and mouse, with six language layouts to choose from. The closing date of registrations for Coolest Projects International is fast approaching, so if you know some budding young makers with an idea for a great tech project, make sure they register soon! We’re… … Continue reading →
- We’re seven! As we celebrate our birthday with our community via the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend, and at Coolest Projects UK, you’re all invited to make a cake, eat it, and sing us Happy Birthday from wherever you are in the world. Have a brilliant week and we’ll see you next Friday! Peace, Alex … Continue reading →
- The Raspberry Jam Big Birthday is almost here! In celebration of our seventh birthday, we’re coordinating with over 130 community‑led Raspberry Jams in 40 countries across six continents this weekend, 2-3 March 2019. Raspberry Jams come in all shapes and sizes. They range from small pub gatherings fueled by local beer and amiable nerdy chatter to… … Continue reading →
- Across Code Clubs, CoderDojos, Raspberry Jams, and all our other education programmes, we’re working with hundreds of thousands of young people. They are all making different projects and learning different things while they are making. The research team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation does lots of work to help us understand what exactly these young… … Continue reading →
- Friday, Friday, gotta get down on…no, I’m sorry, I can’t do it. And I’m sorry for the earworm. But I’ll tell you what we’re not sorry for: sending our photographer Fiacre to the explosive home of Colin Furze for this 12-page HackSpace extravaganza! Once you’ve had your fill of Colin’s rather phenomenal antics, check out… … Continue reading →
- All Code Club leaders and mentors need to take our safeguarding training module. This free 30-minute interactive module gives you practical advice on safeguarding that will help you create a safe learning environment for all young people you engage with. Sign in with your Raspberry Pi account to save your progress. Register and complete the… … Continue reading →
- We are excited to announce that we will host the first-ever Scratch Conference Europe in the UK this summer: from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 August at Churchill College, Cambridge! Scratch Conference is a participatory event that gives hundreds of educators the chance to explore the creative ways in which people are programming and learning… … 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 Friday! Did you see? We released a new product this week! Raspberry Pi 3A+ is the delightfully compact sibling of the 3B+ – it has all the processing power in a smaller form factor with fewer ports, allowing for a slimmer fit into your projects and industrial settings, at the lower price of $25.… … Continue reading →
- Last week was a very exciting week for us, with the announcement of the National Centre for Computing Education: funded programmes for computing teachers and students for the next four years, to really support the growth and profile of our subject. For me and many others involved in this field over the last decade, it’s… … 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 →
- On Wednesday 17 October, CoderDojo held the sixth annual EUDojo in the European Parliament in Brussels. EUDojo 2018 Since last year’s event, CoderDojo has grown significantly: we have almost 500 new Dojos, and our network now spreads to over 100 countries! We organised this year’s EUDojo to coincided with the annual Europe Code Week —… … Continue reading →
- Hey there! Fancy a new product? How about the TV HAT, allowing you to receive, view, and stream DVB-T2 television broadcasts with your Raspberry Pi? We’ve also produced a heap of new video content, found some wonderful projects to write about, and the team at HackSpace magazine has graced us with their twelfth issue. Have… … Continue reading →
- As the world gets ready to celebrate International Translation Day on 30 September, we want to say thank you to our amazing community of volunteer translators. This talented bunch work very hard so that people around the world can learn digital making and computing in their native languages. Our translators The #RPiTranslate community is growing… … Continue reading →
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation believes that a child, young person, or vulnerable adult should never experience abuse of any kind. We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children, young people, and vulnerable adults, and to keep them safe. We are committed to following practices that protect them. These practices are laid out… … Continue reading →
- Join us for an in-depth exploration of ethical computing in the newest issue of Hello World, our magazine for computing and digital making educators. It’s out today! We need to talk about ethics Whatever area of computing you hail from, how to take an ethical approach to the projects we build with code is… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! While we rejoice in the rain that is finally gracing our sunbleached city, here are a few of the week’s top news, projects, and articles, plus some ways you can become more involved with the Raspberry Pi community. Have a great weekend, and we’ll see you next Friday. Peace, Alex … 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 →
- Mu is a very simple-to-use Python editor and IDE (integrated development environment) and this week, version 1.0 was released! New Mu Mu is designed to be as user-friendly and as helpful as possible for new Python programmers, presenting just the tools that are useful, such as: Syntax highlighting Automatic indentation In-built help Code checking Debugging Great… … 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 →
- Hello there, This week saw the launch of our brand-spanking-new homepage at raspberrypi.org. If you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to head over and check it out! We also released some stuff on Youtube, including our What is CoderDojo? video and some fun outtakes from a recent filming session. And as always, we’ve collected… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, We were very excited to host H.R.H. The Duke of Sussex and H.R.H. The Duchess of Sussex at CoderDojo’s seventh birthday celebrations in Dublin this week. Young people from the CoderDojo community eagerly showed off their projects to the royal couple on their visit to Ireland. Meanwhile back in Cambridge, we’ve been feasting on… … 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 →
- Last year, Code Club Australia set a new world record during their Moonhack event for the most young people coding within 24 hours. This year, they’re hoping to get 50000 kids involved — here’s how you can take part in this interstellar record attempt! Celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing Nearly 50 years ago, humankind took… … Continue reading →
- Right now, we’re working on an online project pathway to support you with all your high-altitude balloon (HAB) flight activities, whether you run them with students or as a hobby. We’ll release the resources later in the year, but in the meantime we have some exciting new HAB software to share with you! Skycademy and… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, and welcome to this week’s Raspberry Pi Weekly, our newsletter filled to the brim with community projects, news, and articles. This week has been jam-packed with your awesome projects and tutorials, including this wonderful official Doctor Who K-9 prop renovation, this slightly gruesome eye in a jar, and the amazing Teslonda car hybrid. We’ve also… … Continue reading →
- Hello hello! This week saw the release of our Build your own weather station guide, one of your most requested projects! Whether you’re interested in tracking weather data at home, or you’re looking for a project for your school or club, our free resource offers all the information you need to build a fully functional… … Continue reading →
- Hey you, After an extended holiday weekend*, we’ve returned to Pi Towers buzzing with excitement from Coolest Projects International! It was an incredible day showcasing amazing builds from young makers across the globe. If you missed it this year and want to come to a Foundation event, check out Raspberry Fields, our two-day digital making… … Continue reading →
- Greetings, everyone! This week, we were thrilled to launch a new partnership with the Scouts in the UK. The new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge will help tens of thousands of young people learn skills for life. Lots of people in our community are also involved with scouting organisations around the world, and the online… … Continue reading →
- PyCon UK 2018 will take place on Saturday 15 September to Wednesday 19 September in the splendid Cardiff City Hall, just a few miles from the Sony Technology Centre where the vast majority of Raspberry Pis is made. We’re pleased to announce that we’re curating this year’s Education Summit at the conference, where we’ll offer… … Continue reading →
- Hello all! It’s beautifully sunny in the UK, but wetter weather is never terribly far away. So it’s really useful that Naturebytes are making their weatherproof Wildlife Cam Case available as a standalone unit for the first time. It’s great for all kinds of outdoor Pi projects, not just nature cameras. A Pi-controlled Magic: The… … Continue reading →
- Hi all, Unseasonable colds delayed your newsletter this week, and even stole Alex‘s voice. However, they couldn’t stop her from heading to Makers Central with a team from Raspberry Pi, where we understand she spent the weekend communicating via a blend of semaphore and interpretive dance. This week, we look back at last weekend’s Coolest… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, one and all, and welcome to this week’s Raspberry Pi Weekly. This week, we celebrated 1.2 million Raspberry Pi Zeros and Zero Ws shipped worldwide, and we’ve loved hearing how you’ve been using yours. We’ve also been learning about your wonderful projects, such as teacher Chris Aviles’s Innovation Lab in New Jersey, where students… … Continue reading →
- Howdy, It’s been a week of new things here at Pi Towers: we’ve released our latest free online course about starting a CoderDojo, and a new issue of HackSpace magazine; we’ve announced a new Coolest Projects event for North America; and we’ve reported on an upgrade of the Google AIY Projects Kits! And if that’s… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! This week we released our new Raspberry Pi: Stories video focused on the wonderful Museum in a Box project, which uses NFC technology and Raspberry Pis to bridge the gap between museum conservation and the classroom. As always, we’ve rustled up some wonderful community-made projects and tutorials for you to get your teeth into… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, We’re back at Pi Towers, chocolate-fuelled and ready to go! If you’ve already checked our blog this week, you’ll be aware of some of the brilliant projects we’ve seen from members of the community, including Jennifer Fox’s impact force monitoring helmet; Pino, the smart sailing boat; and Tinkernut’s Coke bottle spy camera. All… … 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 →
- Hey there This week we’ve been continuing our sixth birthday celebrations with the community-run Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend. You knocked it out of the park: Jams happened on every continent except Antactica, and partygoers of all ages built robots, played party games, hacked Minecraft, created wearables, and enjoyed a lot of cake. Track the celebrations… … Continue reading →
- Less than four years ago, Magda Jadach was convinced that programming wasn’t for girls. On International Women’s Day, she tells us how she discovered that it definitely is, and how she embarked on the new career that has brought her to Raspberry Pi as a software developer. “Coding is for boys”, “in order to be… … Continue reading →
- With the launch of our first new free online course of 2018 — Scratch to Python: Moving from Block- to Text-based Programming — two weeks away, I thought this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to the ins and outs of the course content so you know what to expect. Take the plunge… … 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 →
- The Raspberry Pi Foundation will be at The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair at the NEC, Birmingham from 14 to 17 March. Visit our stand to learn how easy it is to set up a Raspberry Pi, to test your racing skills in the Scratch Olympics, to get creative with LEDs, and… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, The Raspberry Pi news this week: Coolest Projects is expanding, with its doors now open to young makers in the Raspberry Pi community, and a new London location. Build a home theatre system and turn your trash into tech with the help of this week’s The MagPi issue 66 and HackSpace magazine 3.… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, one and all. We hope you’ve had a good week — we know we have. Ours has been full to the brim with your incredible projects, such as the binary clock by engineerish, Jason’s e-paper money pot tracker, and facepunch, the Pi-powered project that doesn’t do what the name suggests. We also ran a… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday (or Saturday, or Sunday, or whenever it is you’re reading this…), This week at Pi Towers was a wonderful mash-up of checking out your projects online, eating cupcakes, and playing SLUG, all of which we highly recommend. We also published a brand-new YouTube video, we’re offering new job opportunities, and we’ve released the… … Continue reading →
- Bett brings together more than 34,000 attendees from the global education community to celebrate education, and to discuss the future of the field and the roles technology and innovation play in enabling all educators and learners to thrive. During the four days of Bett 2018, the Raspberry Pi Foundation will be hosting four pods in… … Continue reading →
- Thinking about New Year’s resolutions? Ditch the gym and tone up your author muscles instead, by writing an article for Hello World magazine. We’ll help you, you’ll expand your knowledge of a topic you care about, and you’ll be contributing something of real value to the computing education community. The computing and digital making magazine… … Continue reading →
- Hey there! Welcome to the last Raspberry Pi Weekly of 2017. And what a week it’s been! We’ve seen the release of not one, not two, but THREE new publications from the Raspberry Pi Press. So whether you want to catch up with Raspberry Pi community projects in The MagPi, delve into the world of… … Continue reading →
- Whether you’re a maker of things or you take inspiration from the amazing things people create, come and join us at Makers Central at the NEC in Birmingham, UK, on 5-6 May 2018. This spectacular event for the maker community brings together thousands of people from around the world, from crafters and inventors to hobbyists and artists,… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, From Pi-based snowmen to twinkly lights, this week is certainly a week for community projects — make sure to check out our selection below. We’ve also been celebrating the CoderDojo Foundation team’s announcement of 2000 registered Dojos! And we heard a wonderful story from a Code Club in Nottinghamshire that is working hard… … Continue reading →
- Solving problems that are meaningful to us is at the core of our approach to teaching and learning about technology here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Over the last eight months, I’ve noticed that the types of digital making projects that motivate and engage me have changed (can’t think why). Always looking for ways to… … Continue reading →
- Hey there, What a week for resources! We’ve launched two new free OctaPi projects, plus a sackful of free Christmas-themed tutorials for Scratch, Python, and Raspberry Pi, so you have no excuse not to spend your weekend having some fun with digital making. Before you start, update your operating system with our newest releases of… … Continue reading →
- It’s never too early for Christmas-themed resources — especially when you want to make the most of them in your school, Code Club or CoderDojo! So here’s the ever-wonderful Laura Sach with an introduction of our newest festive projects. In the immortal words of Noddy Holder: “it’s Christmaaaaaaasssss!” Well, maybe it isn’t quite Christmas yet,… … Continue reading →
- Here at Raspberry Pi, we know that getting physical with computing is often a catalyst for creativity. Building a simple circuit can open up a world of making possibilities! This ethos of tinkering and invention is also being used in the classroom to inspire a whole new generation of makers too, and here is why.… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, everybody! This week, we finally announced our first Brazillian Approved Reseller, and with it Brazil’s own blue Raspberry Pi 3. Members of the team behind the Raspberry Pi met with the Royal Academy of Engineering for a Q&A following their MacRobert Award win earlier this year. And we have a new video for… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, Have you heard the news about HackSpace? It’s a brand-new maker magazine from the team behind The MagPi, and you can get a print copy of issue 1 for free! Managers of hack- or makerspaces can also get a whole box of magazines for free to share with their members. This week also… … Continue reading →