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- Today the Royal Society published After the Reboot, a report card on the state of computing education in UK schools. It’s a serious piece of work, published with lots of accompanying research and data, and well worth a read if you care about these issues (which, if you’re reading this blog, I guess you do).… … 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 →
- Hey there, This Thursday, we celebrated 6000 active Code Clubs in the UK! Thank you to every volunteer, teacher, parent, and supporter who has helped make this possible. 24 hours later, we’re already up to 6005, and our Code Club community will only continue to grow. Looking for something fun to do this weekend? Check… … Continue reading →
- In March, the CoderDojo Foundation launched their Girls Initiative, which aims to increase the average proportion of girls attending CoderDojo clubs from 29% to at least 40% over the next three years. Six months on, we wanted to highlight what we’ve done so far and what’s next for our initiative. What we’ve done so far… … Continue reading →
- Hello there! Welcome to another week filled with Raspberry Pi fun. As you can see in today’s Raspberry Pi Weekly, we’ve come across some great projects and tutorials over the last seven days, including Halloween-themed builds and useful tips for getting the most out of your Pi. And while I have your attention, please join… … 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 →
- With the incredible success of this year’s Moonhack under their belt, here’s Code Club Australia‘s Kelly Tagalan with a lowdown on the event, and why challenges such as these are so important. On 15 August 2017, Code Clubs around the globe set a world record for the most kids coding in a day! From Madrid… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, What a week! Where do I even start? Code Club has announced the expansion of their age range, with free resources and support now available for 9- to 13-year-olds. Woohoo! Our eager resource builders have added five new advanced Scratch projects to seal the deal. CoderDojo has been hard at work on a… … Continue reading →
- Today, we’re excited to announce the expansion of Code Club to secondary school ages up to 13. When we made our plans known last May, we were beginning work with a pilot group of 50 UK secondary schools to discover how we could best support them, and how we could make Code Club work as… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, Sonic Pi projects have arrived at Code Club, and we’re itching to get musical. Are you in? We’ve also seen some great builds from the community this week, so make sure you check them out – including the Raspberry Pi-powered Nerf blaster that we all want to own! Have a great week, and if… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! This week saw the launch of our Approved Reseller programme, helping to bring Raspberry Pi to more people around the globe. We also announced six new resellers, including stores in India and Brazil! Check out our wonderful mix of great community projects, articles and news, and make sure you submit your event to the… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, everybody! Check out how packed this week’s newsletter is! It’s almost overflowing with perfect examples of the amazing projects that our community builds—we’ve had a great time looking through all of them. You can sit back, relax, and dive in. There’s so much going on in the world of Raspberry Pi that it’s… … Continue reading →
- Start learning with us today and build your computing skill set! We have a range of courses, from programming for beginners to learning about the hardware and software behind the internet, all accessible for free! Teachers in England If you are a teacher in England, you should access our courses through the Teach Computing website… … Continue reading →
- Hello, friends from all over! This week in the Raspberry Pi community has been all about detecting transport events, and also dramatic weather and tectonic events. Generally speaking, if you want to use your Pi to track something or notify you of something that’s happening in the real world, there’s a solid chance you should… … Continue reading →
- Over the past few years, Code Club has made strides toward world domination! There are now more than 10,000 Code Clubs running in 125 countries. More than 140,000 kids have taken part in our clubs in places as diverse as the northernmost tip of Canada and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. In the first… … Continue reading →
- Hey there! You asked, and we delivered: get your free Raspberry Pride stickers from The Pi Hut and Pimoroni! And as if that’s not enough Pi goodness, this week we also released a brand-new update for Raspbian, which brings with it Scratch 2.0 for offline use, and includes Thonny, a user-friendly IDE for Python. If your… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday, one and all! This week introduced us to Mira, the most adorable robot we’ve ever seen. So while I try to recover my senses again after this overload of cuteness, you can go check out Estefannie’s brilliant GPS-Controlled GoPro, this wonderful interview with our bearded wonder Matt Richardson, and then, if you have… … 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 →
- Hello there, This week saw the announcement of a very special relationship: in a merger that will increase the opportunities for young people everywhere to get involved in computing, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has joined forces with the awesome CoderDojo Foundation. We’re very excited! Adding to our mountain of wonderful, we also released the second… … Continue reading →
- As educators and makers at Raspberry Pi, we think a lot about failure and how to deal with it constructively. Much has been written about the importance of failure to design and engineering projects. It is undoubtedly true that you can learn a lot from your mistakes, like getting the wrong size of part, mistyping… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone! This week, we’re delighted for Femi Owolade-Coombes, the eleven-year-old organiser of the inclusive South London Raspberry Jam, who has won a Diana Award for his work sharing his passion for computing with other young people. Femi is fundraising for his next project, to run robotics and physical computing workshops for 100 young people… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone, Since the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club merged back in 2015, we’ve more than doubled the number of clubs to over 10,000, giving children around the world the opportunity to learn how to make things with computers. Yesterday, we announced that we’re responding to huge demand from young people by extending Code… … Continue reading →
- PyCon UK is the annual gathering of the UK Python community and its friends from around the world. This year, the conference is taking place in Cardiff from Thursday 26 to Monday 30 October 2017. Since 2011, PyCon UK have welcomed teachers to the education track to promote programmer / teacher collaboration and mutual… … Continue reading →
- We’ve recently released a series of new Code Club videos on our YouTube channel. These range from advice on setting up your own Code Club to testimonials from kids and volunteers. To offer a little more information on the themes of each video, we’ll be releasing #CharityTuesday blog posts for each, starting with the reason… … Continue reading →
- Make the Future Live, a festival of ideas and innovation, will be returning to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from 25 to 28 May 2017. Highlights include live music and science shows on the main stage, creating your own energy using giant zorbs, and the Shell Eco-marathon, a worldwide student competition to create the ultimate energy-efficient vehicle.… … Continue reading →
- Welcome to Raspberry Pi Weekly #197! This week saw the winners’ announcement for our first ever Pioneers challenge: Make Us Laugh. We spent a day in London with our amazing judges, watching every video and laughing till we cried. The quality of young makers’ submissions was just brilliant – take a look and see for yourself. We’ll… … 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 →
- Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we take great pride in the wonderful free resources we produce for you to use in classes, at home and in coding clubs. We publish them under a Creative Commons licence, and they’re an excellent way to develop your digital-making skills. With yesterday being World Poetry Day (I’m a… … Continue reading →
- Hello! Last weekend, we celebrated Raspberry Pi and Code Club’s fifth birthday with code, cake, robots, art, explosions, music, quizzes, and rainbow unicorn face paint. If you couldn’t be there – or if you could, and you wish you still were – you can relive the fun by following the #PiParty hashtag on Twitter. Colours… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, This week saw the announcement that VNC Connect is now available for free on Raspberry Pi, allowing you to connect to your Pi from anywhere in the world, from a range of devices. We’ve also released a new Pioneers video, offering some advice on how to film your team’s video submission for the first… … Continue reading →
- This column is from The MagPi issue 54. 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. When you… … Continue reading →
- Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend Cambridge Junction, Clifton Way, Cambridge, CB1 7GX Saturday 4th March 2017 10.30am-6.30pm Sunday 5th March 10am-5.30pm Tickets: £5 (16 years and over), free (under 16) Ticket purchase available here: junction.co.uk/raspberry-pi-big-birthday-weekend Click below for schedule and register for workshops by clicking the links!: Welcome to our annual birthday celebration page! Join the Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- We recently created two free online CPD training courses that are available to anyone, anywhere in the world. The courses will run alongside our current live training offerings, Picademy and Skycademy, and are facilitated by FutureLearn, a leading platform for online educational training. Our courses begin on 20 February 2017, but you can sign up… … Continue reading →
- At the end of this week, with our final Picademy of 2016 taking place in Texas, we will have trained over 540 educators in the US and the UK this year, something of which we’re immensely proud. Our free face-to-face training has proved hugely popular: on average, we receive three eligible applications for each available… … 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 →
- It’s been five years since we made our first appearance at Maker Faire New York. Back in 2011, we were still showing demonstrations of the Raspberry Pi, prior to its release the following spring. This year, we had prominent billing alongside the robots and rockets! Maker Faire New York ran from 1-2 October, and was as… … 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, Welcome to your weekly Pi roundup, offering some of our favourite news, projects, and articles from the week. Picademy has made a pledge to President Obama and the Computer Science For All initiative, committing to the expansion of Raspberry Pi Certified Educator training opportunities across the United States in 2017. GPIO Zero… … Continue reading →
- Oh, hey there! We. Want. You. Seriously, we do. We’ve a new 6-month paid internship available at Raspberry Pi ‘Pi Towers’, Cambridge, UK. As Events Assistant, you’ll get to do all sorts of awesome things including (though not limited to) eating free ice cream from the kitchen freezer, heading out for #FoodTruckFriday, Pokemon Go-ing at the… … Continue reading →
- Oh hi, This week… wow, it’s been a good one. Tuesday was spent with the amazing participants of our Digital Making Day, building speakers, creating wearable tech, and getting our hands on Pi Cameras and Pi-Tops. This week also saw the release of issue 49 of The MagPi, and your chance to vote for the… … 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 making! With the launch of our Day of Making application process, the latest MagPi issue 48, and our team heading off to Camp Bestival this weekend, it’s been a busy week at Pi Towers. As for all you lovely lot, we’ve seen some amazing projects released. From Sean’s beautiful RetroPie… … Continue reading →
- It’s nearly two years since Computing became a subject for all children in England to study, and we’re now seeing some amazing work to bring opportunities for digital making into schools. Recently I visited Eastwood Academy in Southend-on-Sea, where teacher Lucas Abbot has created a digital making room, and built a community of young programmers… … Continue reading →
- Hi all, Ben has flown off to Ireland for CoderDojo Coolest Projects today, leaving me in charge of this week’s Raspberry Pi Weekly. Top story at Pi Towers this week has been our own Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading and pioneer of the Pi, named CBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honours list! Educators who… … Continue reading →
- Hi all The image above is the so-called Raspberry Pi Infinity+, a 10x working replica of the Raspberry Pi on show at Bay Area Maker Faire. Be sure to check out the amazing projects from the Creative Technologists and the rest of the content from the blog this week. There’s also some great content from… … Continue reading →
- Hi all Issue #46 of The MagPi is out now, featuring electronics projects with GPIO Zero and much more. Did you know you get a free Pi Zero when subscribing to the magazine? Be sure to check out Alex Eames’s latest Kickstarter project – the Analog Zero, perfect for reading analogue inputs with Python. It’s… … Continue reading →
- Hi everyone There’s a new Raspbian release out – featuring a Bluetooth GUI, an SD card copying utility, a GPIO daemon, the Genie IDE and lots more. This shows how the Pi’s operating system is really coming along, these incremental changes making a huge difference over time to users old and new. Read all about… … Continue reading →
- Educators, we’ll see you in Denver! Members of the Raspberry Pi education team will be at the 2016 ISTE Conference and Expo to participate in a Raspberry Jam and a few playgrounds. Come talk to Philip Colligan, Carrie Anne Philbin, and Matt Richardson about how the Raspberry Pi Foundation puts the power of digital making… … Continue reading →
- Hi Thanks to Helen for taking on Raspberry Pi Weekly last week. Tomorrow it’s the Creative Technologists’ New Works exhibition at Pi Towers. Next week we’ll share some photos and details of their projects. Be sure to check out the photos from the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi competition. Ben … 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- In the summer of 2015, President Obama made call to action to create a Nation of Makers within the United States. We made a commitment in response to that call: we would train 100 teachers in digital making with Raspberry Pi in 2016. Last weekend, we made a giant leap towards fulfilling that commitment with… … 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 →
- For anyone in the education technology community, January is synonymous with Bett. This trade show has been taking place in London for over thirty years, and now sees over thirty thousand educators, students, parents and technology enthusiasts descending on the ExCeL Centre in Docklands to find out about the latest learning technlogies. Raspberry Pi and… … 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 →
- It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Every December, we see Raspberry Pi Christmas lighting projects appear on the web, but this year the crop has been bigger and better than ever before. If you haven’t set yours up yet, here are a few ideas, tutorials and displays to get you started. Let’s open… … 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 →
- Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club join forces I am delighted to announce that Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club are joining forces in a merger that will give many more young people the opportunity to learn how to make things with computers. Raspberry Pi Foundation and Code Club were both created as responses to… … 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 →
- This year, for the first time, we are running the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists programme, mentoring a small group of young people aged 16-21 years as they explore using digital technology to enhance their creative pursuits. One of our creative technologists, 21-year-old writer Hannah Burdett, recently published today’s post on her own blog, and when… … Continue reading →
- 18,000 stickers, 2,000 selfie-sticks and 8,000 slices of pizza hurtled across the planet last week to 14 different countries. It was a day that almost 4000 students had been eagerly awaiting. Major League Hacking (MLH) have been organising hackathons in the USA and Europe for several years, but Saturday was an event with a difference.… … 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 →
- We’re looking for 24 teachers (or youth leaders) to take part in a FREE two-and-a-half day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event aiming to provide experience of high altitude ballooning to educators, and demonstrating how it can be used as an engaging teaching opportunity. Over the last few year I’ve seen many awesome uses of the Raspberry… … Continue reading →
- This year’s EuroPython conference takes place in July in Bilbao, Spain. Not only is our own Carrie Anne Philbin presenting a keynote (alongside the creator of Python, Guido van Rossum), but the Raspberry Pi Foundation will be running an Education Summit, in partnership with the EuroPython Society. We have a dedicated track of education-focused talks,… … Continue reading →
- If you missed the updates recently, we’re currently running a 12-month programme for creative young people called Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists. We have a Google+ community for the group to post ideas, share interesting links and ask each other for help and we hoped they would also use it to arrange to meet up outside… … 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 →
- A quick blip of a blog to say Happy Scratch Day! We’re huge fans of Scratch here at the Foundation. It was designed to teach young people how to program but it’s a great learning tool at any age: you can build your first program in minutes and pick up fundamental concepts very quickly. Whilst… … 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 →
- We were very excited to welcome children’s TV presenter Frankie Vu from CBBC’s Technobabble, a TV show for children dedicated to explaining how technology works in a fun way, to Pi Towers towards the end of 2014 to talk about how computers are often found inside lots of different appliances, toys, and products. In an episode dedicated to… … Continue reading →
- If you visited us at the Bett Show in January, or came to Picademy in October or February half term, then you will recognise James Robinson as one of our education team volunteers. He is a well-established member of the Computing At School community, as both a CAS Master Teacher and CAS Hub Leader for Cambridge. He… … Continue reading →
- How much time is it going to take? We expect you to take part in 3 hours of online video calls per month, and to spend at least 4 hours a week working independently on your projects. The course will run for 12 months from April 2015 to April 2016. How experienced do I have to be? You can… … 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 →
- At Raspberry Pi Towers, our magical helper elves* have been working around the clock to bring you some fantastically festive Hour of Code activities. The Hour of Code is an idea launched in 2013 by Code.org – a non-profit organisation dedicated to expanding participation in Computer Science by making it available in more schools. Their vision… … Continue reading →
- No more propping your eyes open with matchsticks to try and catch Santa! This Scratch program uses a low-cost, infra-red detector to set off an alarm when Santa sneaks into your room. It’s a great introduction to using simple sensors on the Raspberry Pi, and can be adapted to lots of different projects. … Continue reading →
- Rachel here! I love castles. I really love castles. When I was in primary school I would do projects about castles in my spare time – just for fun. I would make wooden swords and reenact battles with my best friend too – Anyway – This week we came across a fantastic application of Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- A few weeks ago Dave and I ran a workshop at the Hub Construction Skills Centre in Stepney Green. It was great: the young people were engaged, learned some basic computing skills and saw why it’s important to know how computers work. And that might normally have been a tweet or two from us but… … Continue reading →
- Today we’re launching a new section of our website for information about Raspberry Jams – events and meetups for Raspberry Pi users. We want to promote community events and make it easier for people to set up their own; and to spread the great sense of community that we see around the Pi even further. Jams come… … Continue reading →
- Learn about physical computing with Raspberry Pi. Make robots, electronic games, use buzzers and lights, build a photobooth, whatever you can think of! See our physical computing projects in the make section of our resources … Continue reading →
- Table of Contents: INTRODUCTION What is a Raspberry Pi? Can I buy shares in the Raspberry Pi Foundation? BUYING AND SHIPPING Where can I buy a Raspberry Pi? How much does it cost? What do I get when I buy one? Why is the price in US Dollars? You are a UK company! Can I… … Continue reading →
- Space matters In September 2014 (as in a couple of weeks) the new Computing curriculum will come into play in schools in England. Basically this means that ICT as a subject will be replaced by Computing and that students from the age of five will have the opportunity to learn an exciting and powerful new… … Continue reading →
- So, you may have seen on our twitter or elsewhere that we were a host centre for Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code 2014. We had 6 young people join us at Pi Towers for a week: Ben, Rihanna, Amy, John, Finn and Dan. The aim of Festival of Code is to inspire and support young… … Continue reading →
- Hey all – Rachel here! I have spent the last year talking with lots of artists who are making amazing things with Raspberry Pis. Every day my inbox is PINGing with exciting progress news. So I’m going to start showcasing some of these projects on the blog. I find them incredibly inspiring – I hope you do… … Continue reading →
- In this resource you will be introduced to Mathematica and the Wolfram language, which are available for free on the Raspberry Pi. Mathematica is a computational programming tool used in science, maths, computing and engineering. It was first released in 1988. It is proprietary software that you can use for free on the Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- Liz: Last week’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam was one of the biggest yet. I asked the organisers, Michael Horne (whom you might know as Recantha: he has a brilliant Raspberry Pi blog, which you should check out) and Tim Richardson, whether they’d be prepared to write a guest post for us about the event. They’ve done… … Continue reading →
- There’s been a media brouhaha about coding recently**. The Hour of Code puts this into perspective—it’s all about demystifying what coding is, having a play and realising that it isn’t as arcane or difficult as you thought. Of course at one end of the scale, computer science can be as challenging as it gets. But… … Continue reading →
- Guidelines on setting up and running your own Raspberry Jam Am I allowed to run a Jam? Yes! Anyone can run a Raspberry Jam – you don’t need our permission, and it can take any form you like. What do I need to run a Jam? All you need to run a Jam is a venue,… … Continue reading →
- Carrie Anne wasn’t our only new starter on Monday: we’ve also welcomed Dave Honess to the team. Dave will be familiar to many of you as Davespice from our forums, where he’s one of our moderators; he’s also been helping me moderate the comments on this blog for a year or so now, and he’s… … Continue reading →
- Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a small, powerful computer that you can use in coding and electronics projects, and as a desktop PC to work on spreadsheets, process text documents, play games, and browse the internet. Raspberry Pi is used by people all over the globe to… … Continue reading →
- We’re welcoming a new member to the team at Pi Towers today. Some of you already know Ben Nuttall from his work on the Pi Weekly email newsletter (if you haven’t signed up already, you should), his hosting of the Manchester Jams, and his STEM activities. I first crossed paths with Ben when we met the incredible Amy… … Continue reading →
- As you’ve probably noticed, Raspberry Pi is a rather unusual organisation. We have two functions: we make and sell tiny computers, and we promote children’s education. These activities support each other (all the money we raise from selling Raspberry Pis is put straight back into our charitable activities), but are in many ways separate, and… … Continue reading →
- We’ve been very keen to see schools set up high altitude ballooning (HAB) projects with the Pi. HAB is a stupendously rewarding and challenging way to get some really good cross-curricular work done, requiring skills in maths, computing, physics, geography and chemistry. So we were super-chuffed to get this email from Samuel Bancroft, a school… … Continue reading →
- Today’s grant from Google (if you have’t read the post about it yet, go and have a look before you continue with this one) has also enabled us to pick up our newest hire, Clive Beale. If you’ve been visiting this website regularly over the last 18 months or so, you may recognise Clive as one… … Continue reading →