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- 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 →
- This blog post is for parents. Specifically, it’s for parents who want to help their kids get into making things with technology but don’t know where to start. (You can find even more guidance and video tutorials in guide #2, guide #3, and guide #4!) We’re supporting parents and carers with learning for young people… … 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 →
- This guide is for parents. Specifically, it’s for parents who want to help their kids get into making… … Continue reading →
- Inspired by amazing club organisers, volunteers, and educators who’ve tested different approaches, we’re sharing how you can support young people to learn when your club can’t meet in person. Join our online workshops, to talk about your experience and learn best practices with the whole community. Everyone involved in a Code Club or CoderDojo… … 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 →
- Symposium Keynote Presentations Posters Submissions CCERS 2020 is now over! Many thanks to our keynote speaker, Dr Natalie Rusk, to all the fantastic presenters and to everyone who participated in the symposium. The symposium booklet and programme are available to download, and you can watch the presentations and see the slides and posters that were… … Continue reading →
- Are you ready to FEEL THE BURN…of your heating laptop? And MAX THOSE REPS…using forever loops? Then get your programming muscles into the best shape possible with our free online training courses (thanks to support from Google!). Pump up your programming skills for free Today we are excited to announce our new online training course… … 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 →
- Marcos Navas is a Union City Technology Facilitator with Union City school district in New Jersey and an active member of the maker, STEM, and coding communities. He was part of the first cohort of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators in the United States. Recently, he completed a fellowship with IDEO’s Teachers Guild and launched Hands-on… … 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 →
- Come and find members of the Raspberry Pi and Code Club teams at Maker Faire Rome from Friday 12 to Sunday 14 October! We will be holding a drop-in workshop where you can learn the basics of programming: make games and animations in Scratch, program your own sparkling LED display with Python, and find out how… … Continue reading →
- Coolest Projects is the world’s leading technology fair for young people. It’s the science fair for the digital age, where thousands of young people showcase amazing projects that they’ve built using digital technologies. If you want to meet the innovators of the future, this is the place to be, so today we’re really excited to… … 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 →
- 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 →
- Located outside Los Angeles, the Boys & Girls Club of Bell Gardens run after-school and summer programming for youth in the community. The club at Bell Gardens is part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a national organization of local chapters that offer after-school programs for young people. In September, their Code Club… … Continue reading →
- Like many engineers, I have folder upon folder of half-completed projects on my computer. But the funny thing is that this wasn’t a problem for me as a child. Every other Friday evening, I’d spend two hours at Ilkley Computer Club, where I could show off whatever I’d been working on: nothing motivates you to… … Continue reading →
- Earlier this year on 3 and 4 March, communities around the world held Raspberry Jam events to celebrate Raspberry Pi’s sixth birthday. We sent out special birthday kits to participating Jams — it was amazing to know the kits would end up in the hands of people in parts of the world very far from… … Continue reading →
- Earlier this spring, an excited group of STEM educators came together to participate in the first ever Raspberry Pi and Arduino workshop in Puerto Rico. Their three-day digital making adventure was led by MakerTechPR’s José Rullán and Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Alex Martínez. They ran the event as part of the Robot Makers challenge organized… … Continue reading →
- Join us as we celebrate the Year of Engineering in the newest issue of Hello World, our magazine for computing and digital making educators. Inspiring future engineers We’ve brought together a wide range of experts to share their ideas and advice on how to bring engineering to your classroom — read issue 5 to… … 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 →
- It’s our party and we’ll Pi if we want to — so join us across the globe as we celebrate our sixth birthday! Find your nearest Raspberry Jam and join in with the #PiParty tag on Twitter to get involved. This week has also seen our announcement of two new online courses: Scratch to Python:… … 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 →
- 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 →
- The Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2019 is a community-led, synchronised, global mega-Jam on 2-3 March in celebration of our seventh birthday. Find a Jam near you! Raspberry Jam Bahía Blanca (Argentina) Southport Library Raspberry Jam (Australia) Melbourne Raspberry Pi Jam (Australia) Inverell Raspberry Jam (Australia) Geelong Raspberry Jam (Australia) Bangladesh Raspberry Jam (Bangladesh) Raspberry… … Continue reading →
- Coolest Projects is a world-leading annual showcase that empowers and inspires the next generation of digital creators, innovators, changemakers, and entrepreneurs. Young people come to the event to exhibit the cool ideas they have been working on throughout the year. And from 2018, Coolest Projects is open to young people across the Raspberry Pi community.… … 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 →
- She asked for help, and you came to her aid. Pioneers, the winners of the Only you can save us challenge have been picked! The challenge In August we intercepted an emergency communication from a lonesome survivor. She seemed to be in quite a bit of trouble, and asked all you young people aged 11… … 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 →
- Create a memory game in Scratch involving jazzy jumpers. … 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- In July, winners of the first two Pioneers challenges came together at Google HQ at Kings Cross in London for the Pioneers Summer Camp. This event was a special day to celebrate their awesomeness, and to give them access to some really cool stuff. The lucky Pioneers The summer camp was organised specifically for the… … 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 →
- It’s the beginning of a new school year, and the latest issue of Hello World is here! Hello World is our magazine about computing and digital making for educators, and it’s a collaboration between The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Computing at School, part of the British Computing Society. In issue 3, our international panel of experts… … Continue reading →
- Hello there, Our big news this week is the arrival of Raspbian Stretch for Raspberry Pi. Upgrade your Pi’s OS today to benefit from brilliant features like Sonic Pi 3.0.1, the Sense HAT extension for Scratch 2.0, and more. We also saw Code Club Australia’s Moonhack event beat last year’s record for the most kids… … Continue reading →
- Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop is the Foundation’s operating system for PC and Mac. You can create a live disc, run it in a virtual machine, or even install it on your computer. Raspberry Pi Desktop comes pre-installed with plenty of software for education, programming and general use; including Python, Scratch, Sonic Pi, Java, and… … Continue reading →
- Education is our mission at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, so of course we love tools that help teachers and other educators use Raspberry Pis in a classroom setting. PiNet, which allows teachers to centrally manage a whole classroom’s worth of Pis, makes administrating a fleet of Pis easier. Set up individual student accounts, install updates… … Continue reading →
- Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the 2017 ISTE Conference & Expo, which saw over 20,000 educators convene in San Antonio earlier this summer. As a new Raspberry Pi Foundation team member, I was thrilled to meet the many Raspberry Pi Certified Educators (RCEs) in attendance. They came from across the country to share their knowledge,… … Continue reading →
- Hello everyone! We were thrilled to learn yesterday that Raspberry Pi had won the UK’s top prize for engineering innovation, the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award. This isn’t something we could ever have imagined when we launched the first Raspberry Pi in 2012, and we are honoured and delighted. Also this week, we launched… … 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 →
- We’ve got some great news to share today: the Raspberry Pi Foundation is joining forces with the CoderDojo Foundation, in a merger that will give many more young people all over the world new opportunities to learn how to be creative with technology. CoderDojo is a global network of coding clubs for kids from seven to 17. The… … 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 →
- In November 2015 we announced that the Raspberry Pi Foundation was joining forces with Code Club to give more young people the opportunity to learn how to make things with computers. In the 18 months since we made that announcement, we have more than doubled the number of Code Clubs. Over 10,000 clubs are now active,… … 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 →
- In case you missed it: in yesterday’s post, we released our Raspberry Jam Guidebook, a new Jam branding pack and some more resources to help people set up their own Raspberry Pi community events. Today I’m sharing some insights from Jams I’ve attended recently. Preston Raspberry Jam The Preston Jam is one of the most… … 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 →
- Today, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is launching a new, free resource for educators. Hello World is a magazine about computing and digital making written by educators, for educators. With three issues each year, it contains 100 pages filled with news, features, teaching resources, reviews, research and much more. It is designed to be cross-curricular and useful to… … 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 →
- Hello there! Did you get up to anything for Hour of Code this week? We had a great time here at Pi Towers, introducing people both young and old to Scratch, Minecraft, the Camera Module, animation, and much more. It was a wonderful experience to watch people write their first line of code and to see… … 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 →
- MozFest, or Mozilla Festival, is an annual celebration of the Mozilla community and the wider open internet movement. People from all over the world gather to explore ways of making the internet a resource that’s open and inclusive to all. This year MozFest was held at Ravensbourne College in London from Friday 28 – Sunday… … Continue reading →
- If there’s one thing we’re passionate about here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, it’s sharing our community’s passion for making with technology. Back in January, the Education team exhibited at the Bett Show with a special Educator’s Edition of our fabulous magazine, The MagPi. The goal was to share our projects and programmes with educators who… … Continue reading →
- Here’s a guest post from our old friends Mike Horne and Tim Richardson. Come and join the fun at the next Pi Wars! Pi Wars is a challenge-based robotics competition in which every robot must be controlled by a Raspberry Pi. It’s great fun, and it will all be kicking off once again on 1st-2nd April… … Continue reading →
- Happy Friday! Classic gaming seems to be the theme for the week. From a Raspberry Pi-powered player piano playing the Mario soundtrack, to the classic Mayhem available on GitHub, and Olympic-themed button-mashing with Code Club, it’s all about retro fun. So forget Pokémon Go: your Pi-driven gaming flashback weekend is set. So have a good one! Peace,… … 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 →
- 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 →
- 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 →
- This weekend Philip and I went to Dublin to attend CoderDojo Coolest Projects. We got to meet hundreds of brilliant young digital makers and amazing volunteers. As the event kicked off the news broke that Tim Peake had landed safely back on Earth, which meant Philip had to make some last minute changes to his… … Continue reading →
- In April 2014, we ran our first ever training event for teachers. We called it ‘Picademy‘, selected 24 fabulous teachers to attend, and gave them a qualification and a very special badge at the end. Our aim was to give teachers the skills and knowledge they need to get creative with computing, no matter what their level… … Continue reading →
- This thing will change your life In October 2011, Raspberry Pi co-founder Jack Lang handed me a beta version of the Raspberry Pi. This changed my life. The Pi was familiar yet unworldly: a computer the size of a credit card. As both a teacher and a maker it was a revelation. For the next… … Continue reading →
- In this resource you will take your first steps with the programming language Python to draw shapes, patterns, and spirals. You will use a module named Turtle. Along the way you will learn how to think in sequences, and use loops to repeat a sequence. This is a great stepping stone from a visual programming… … Continue reading →
- In this resource you will create a Scratch program to check the weather in any city in the world, and create a visualisation of the conditions in Scratch. … 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 →
- 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 Education experts will be on hand to help you discover how Raspberry Pis can make computing… … 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 →
- Control your Raspberry Pi with paint – Perfect for all ages! The DOTs Board is an official Raspberry Pi product designed by Foundation’s Creative Producer, Rachel Rayns. It’s been used by the Foundation team at events all over the world in 2015 – and now you can buy one yourself. We are really excited to have… … Continue reading →
- Learn how to simulate the effects of weightlessness in space with this Scratch game with Mooncake the Astro Cat. … 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 →
- Like many institutions, Barclays Bank recognises that digital literacy is an essential component of modern life. It was for this reason that, back in 2013, the bank launched its Digital Eagles initiative. Branch volunteers offered to give up their time and skills to teach members of the community how to get online, perform web searches,… … Continue reading →
- In a month’s time we’re sending two Raspberry Pis to the International Space Station as part of two Astro Pi flight units. We’ve all been beavering away for the last 12 months in preparation, and the launch date is almost upon us. Tim Peake is currently doing his final press conference in the UK before… … 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 →
- 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 →
- Those of you who regularly read our blog will know all about Astro Pi. If not then, to briefly recap, two specially augmented Raspberry Pis (called Astro Pis) are being launched to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake’s mission starting in December. The launch date is December the… … Continue reading →
- Learn about the effects of gravity and how to simulate them in Scratch with code and the Raspberry Pi Foundation's cat Mooncake. … Continue reading →
- In this activity, you will learn about Astronaut reaction times, and distances travelled by the International Space Station in that time, by creating a reaction time game in Scratch. For the first time ever, a British astronaut from the European Space Agency is going to live and work on the International Space Station. British ESA… … Continue reading →
- If you follow us on Twitter, you may have seen some pictures of me standing next to important looking people in suits, handing out Raspberry Pi kits on Tuesday. This was the launch event for an educational project we’ve been working on with the British Embassy in Tallinn over the last few months. Back in… … Continue reading →
- As an education pioneer for the Raspberry Pi Foundation, I’m on a mission to ensure that all children everywhere have some exposure to computing, whether this comes in the form of digital making, the arts, robotics or computer programming. Recently I’ve been on a brief tour to Australia and Singapore to spread the Raspberry Pi… … Continue reading →
- Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian) is the Foundation’s official supported operating system. You can install it with NOOBS or download the image below and follow our installation guide. Raspberry Pi OS comes pre-installed with plenty of software for education, programming and general use. It has Python, Scratch, Sonic Pi, Java and more. The Raspberry… … Continue reading →
- Last week, checking out posts people had made on our Facebook page and the projects they were telling us about, one in particular caught my attention. Sarah Roman, a high school English teacher from New Jersey, had written: Our English class is going to be using the Raspberry Pi in order to build book-based video… … 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 →
- Sorting children into houses can be time-consuming, but Hogwarts were able to use magic to sort their yearly intake into houses really easily. Let’s replace the magic with some code to achieve the same result! In this lesson, students will create a Raspberry Pi-powered Harry Potter-style sorting hat, using the button on a Pibrella add-on… … 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 →
- 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 →
- Liz: Andrew Mulholland is a first-year undergraduate student at Queen’s College Belfast, and the overall winner of 2014’s Talk Talk Digital Hero award. We’ve known him for a few years (he did work experience with us this summer – he created the Grandpa Scarer learning resource for us with Matt Timmons-Brown). Andrew’s been setting up events to introduce… … 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 →