Continued: the answers to your questions for Eben Upton

Reading Time: 8 minutesLast week, we shared the first half of our Q&A with Raspberry Pi Trading CEO and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton. Today we follow up with all your other questions, including your expectations for a Raspberry Pi 4, Eben’s dream add-ons, and whether we really could go smaller than the Zero. Live Q&A with Eben […]

A look back at CTC Valencia Fair 2018

Reading Time: 7 minutesOn April 18th, a team from Arduino Education made it to the museum Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia to participate in the CTC Valencia Fair. A total of 1,200 students (out of 1,500 people in attendance) participated in the five-hour-long event where the students exhibited what they had been producing over […]

Tackling climate change and helping the community

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn today’s guest post, seventh-grade students Evan Callas, Will Ross, Tyler Fallon, and Kyle Fugate share their story of using the Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Station in their Innovation Lab class, headed by Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Chris Aviles. United Nations Sustainable Goals The past couple of weeks in our Innovation Lab class, our teacher, […]

1961 rotary phone gets a 2018 cellular upgrade

Reading Time: < 1 minute1961 rotary phone gets a 2018 cellular upgrade Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 While it’s hard to beat today’s mobile devices functionality-wise, if you need a phone built like a tank and designed for voice communication and voice communication only, you can’t go wrong with the Western Electric Model 500 rotary telephone. As maker […]

YouTuber makes his own Overwatch laser turrets

Reading Time: 2 minutesYouTuber makes his own Overwatch laser turrets Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 If you ever wanted to to see what Symmetra’s sentry turrets from Overwatch would look like in real life, now you can thanks to Mr. Volt. The YouTuber has produced a pair of them powered by a LiPo battery and controlled with […]

Arduino and Distrelec launch a new automation & robotics contest!

Reading Time: 2 minutesArduino and Distrelec launch a new automation & robotics contest! Arduino Team — April 23rd, 2018 How can you help advance Industry 4.0 using the Arduino ecosystem? From robots and predictive maintenance to remote control and data acquisition, we’ve teamed up Distrelec to launch a new Automation & Robotics Contest challenging our community to create innovative solutions that can make […]

Invent new sounds with Google’s NSynth Super

Reading Time: 3 minutesDiscover new sounds and explore the role of machine learning in music production and sound research with the NSynth Super, an ongoing project from Google’s Magenta research team that you can build at home. Google Open NSynth Super Testing Uploaded by AB Open on 2018-04-17. What is the NSynth Super? Part of the ongoing Magenta research project within […]

Hackspace magazine 6: Paper Engineering

Reading Time: 3 minutesHackSpace magazine is back with our brand-new issue 6, available for you on shop shelves, in your inbox, and on our website right now. Inside Hackspace magazine 6 Paper is probably the first thing you ever used for making, and for good reason: in no other medium can you iterate through 20 designs at the […]

Announcing Coolest Projects North America

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Raspberry Pi Foundation loves to celebrate people who use technology to solve problems and express themselves creatively, so we’re proud to expand the incredibly successful event Coolest Projects to North America. This free event will be held on Sunday 23 September 2018 at the Discovery Cube Orange County in Santa Ana, California. What is Coolest […]

Colour sensing with a Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn their latest video and tutorial, Electronic Hub shows you how to detect colour using a Raspberry Pi and a TCS3200 colour sensor. Raspberry Pi Color Sensor (TCS3200) Interface | Color Detector A simple Raspberry Pi based project using TCS3200 Color Sensor. The project demonstrates how to interface a Color Sensor (like TCS3200) with Raspberry […]

AIY Projects 2: Google’s AIY Projects Kits get an upgrade

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter the outstanding success of their AIY Projects Voice and Vision Kits, Google has announced the release of upgraded kits, complete with Raspberry Pi Zero WH, Camera Module, and preloaded SD card. Google’s AIY Projects Kits Google launched the AIY Projects Voice Kit last year, first as a cover gift with The MagPi magazine and […]

PID temperature control with Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesPID temperature control with Arduino Arduino Team — April 16th, 2018 If you want to keep something at a certain temperature, say a block of aluminum, you’ll need a thermocouple and some sort of heating element. While you could turn a heater on and off abruptly in a sequence appropriately known as “bang-bang,” a more […]

Thursday Night Live(cast) with your host David Cuartielles

Reading Time: 7 minutesWhy livecasting from Arduino Education About a month ago we started livecasting from Arduino’s YouTube channel. This is something I had been willing to do for quite some time, but I never figured out the way to make room in my agenda to fit the planning required to make it happen. Technology has changed a […]

Start a CoderDojo with our free online training

Reading Time: 3 minutesYou can now sign up to our newest free online course Start a CoderDojo to learn more about CoderDojo and how you can easily set up one of these free coding clubs for young people in your area. With less than two weeks until the course begins, we wanted to tell you about the course’s […]

The answers to your questions for Eben Upton

Reading Time: 6 minutesBefore Easter, we asked you to tell us your questions for a live Q & A with Raspberry Pi Trading CEO and Raspberry Pi creator Eben Upton. The variety of questions and comments you sent was wonderful, and while we couldn’t get to them all, we picked a handful of the most common to grill […]

Build a house in Minecraft using Python

Reading Time: 9 minutesIn this tutorial from The MagPi issue 68, Steve Martin takes us through the process of house-building in Minecraft Pi. Get your copy of The MagPi in stores now, or download it as a free PDF here. Minecraft Pi is provided for free as part of the Raspbian operating system. To start your Minecraft: Pi […]

More power to your Pi

Reading Time: 9 minutesIt’s been just over three weeks since we launched the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. Although the product is branded Raspberry Pi 3B+ and not Raspberry Pi 4, a serious amount of engineering was involved in creating it. The wireless networking, USB/Ethernet hub, on-board power supplies, and BCM2837 chip were all upgraded: together these […]

MP3 player “reads” CDs like a vintage Victrola

Reading Time: 2 minutesMP3 player “reads” CDs like a vintage Victrola Arduino Team — April 10th, 2018 Digital music—which gives us access to a virtually unlimited amount of media at our fingertips—is an amazing innovation. On the other hand, if you get nostalgic for something a bit more tangible, this “Victrola for the 21st century” may just fill that […]

Artefacts in the classroom with Museum in a Box

Reading Time: 4 minutesMuseum in a Box bridges the gap between museums and schools by creating a more hands-on approach to conservation education through 3D printing and digital making. Artefacts in the classroom with Museum in a Box || Raspberry Pi Stories Learn more: http://rpf.io/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub Help us reach a wider audience by […]

A 3D-printed personal weather station

Reading Time: 2 minutesA 3D-printed personal weather station Arduino Team — April 9th, 2018 If you need to know the forecast, generally you can look outside, listen to a weather report, or take advantage of the wide range of online services available. For something local to your dwelling place, however, this 3D-printed weather measurement device gives a great […]

Give new life to an old electron microscope with Arduino

Reading Time: 2 minutesGive new life to an old electron microscope with Arduino Arduino Team — April 9th, 2018 As seen here, although you might consider your oscilloscope and other test equipment to be pretty neat, you most likely don’t have anything nearly as cool as the scanning electron microscope that was dragged out of a shed at […]

Build a light painting device with Arduino and LEDs

Reading Time: 2 minutesBuild a light painting device with Arduino and LEDs Arduino Team — April 9th, 2018 Graffiti with spray paint is generally impolite and illegal, but as hacker “Reven” shows in his write-up, you can get a very similar effect with long exposure photography and carefully-timed LEDs. Instead of blindly moving a light point about to […]