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Reading Time: 2 minutesToday is Easter Monday and as such, the drawbridge is up at Pi Towers. So while we spend time with family…too much chocolate…family and chocolate, here are some great Pi-themed videos from members of our community. Enjoy! Eggies live stream! Bluebird Birdhouse Raspberry Pi and NoIR camera installed in roof of Bluebird house with IR […]

Save the date: Arduino Day 2018 is Saturday, May 12th!

Reading Time: 2 minutesSave the date: Arduino Day 2018 is Saturday, May 12th! Arduino Team — March 23rd, 2018 For the fifth year in a row we are inviting the open-source community to join us for Arduino Day 2018 on Saturday, May 12th! Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s birthday. It’s a 24 hours-long event–organized by the community and our team–where people […]

Our 2017 Annual Review

Reading Time: 3 minutesEach 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 […]

Join us at Raspberry Fields 2018!

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis summer, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is bringing you an all-new community event taking place in Cambridge, UK! Raspberry Fields On the weekend of Saturday 30 June and Sunday 1 July 2018, the Pi Towers team, with lots of help from our community of young people, educators, hobbyists, and tech enthusiasts, will be running Raspberry […]

March Cosplay Showcase!

Reading Time: 3 minutesConvention season is picking up steam, and cosplayers are busy working on their next projects. If you’re looking for inspiration or tips on a costume you’re working on, check out the three great cosplayers we’re featuring this month! Wonder Woman | James Bissett Photography Artyfakes Artyfakes was influenced from her beginnings in LARPing at the […]

Pi 3B+: 48 hours later

Reading Time: 5 minutesUnless you’ve been AFK for the last two days, you’ll no doubt be aware of the release of the brand-spanking-new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. With faster connectivity, more computing power, Power over Ethernet (PoE) pins, and the same $35 price point, the new board has been a hit across all our social media accounts! […]

Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018 roundup

Reading Time: 6 minutesA couple of weekends ago, we celebrated our sixth birthday by coordinating more than 100 simultaneous Raspberry Jam events around the world. The Big Birthday Weekend was a huge success: our fantastic community organised Jams in 40 countries, covering six continents! We sent the Jams special birthday kits to help them celebrate in style, and […]

Coding is for girls

Reading Time: 5 minutesLess 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 […]

StarCraft 20th Anniversary Celebration!

Reading Time: 3 minutesStarCraft and Twitch have been linked together since the days of Justin.tv. The popularity of the newly released beta for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty drove many fans to stream their gameplay and drove enough viewers that it helped Justin.tv evolve into the Twitch you know and love. We want to join Blizzard in celebrating […]

Happy birthday to us!

Reading Time: 8 minutesThe eagle-eyed among you may have noticed that today is 28 February, which is as close as you’re going to get to our sixth birthday, given that we launched on a leap day. For the last three years, we’ve launched products on or around our birthday: Raspberry Pi 2 in 2015; Raspberry Pi 3 in […]

New free online course about building makerspaces

Reading Time: 2 minutesHelping people to get into making is at the heart of what we do, and so we’ve created a brand-new, free online course to support educators to start their own makerspaces. If you’re interested in the maker movement, then this course is for you! Sign up now and start learning with Build a Makerspace for […]

Show your colors and earn rewards with the Overwatch League on Twitch

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou all know those fans. The ones covered in face paint who cheer louder than the rest. Who bleed their team colors and want everyone to know it. Fandom is an awesome thing, and we can’t think of any reason why showing your colors should be limited to IRL events. When Overwatch League Season 1 […]

Community Profile: Estefannie Explains It All

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis column is from The MagPi issue 59. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve our charitable goals. “Hey, world!” […]

Feel the love this Valentine’s Day with these 5 streamer couples

Reading Time: 2 minutesRoses are red, violets are actually purple — I mean seriously, why are we calling them blue? In the theme of Valentine’s Day we’re featuring streamer couples that have met on the internet and some more specifically on Twitch. SybilQ(Monday, 2/12 at 6:00pm PT) SybilQ and HankQ share a love for deadlifts, tacos, and video games. Twitch […]

February Cosplay Showcase

Reading Time: 3 minutesLove is in the air this month, and we love seeing you broadcast your creativity. Whether you like to transform yourself into a pirate, warrior, assassin, or a pirate warrior assassin, you’ll adore our featured creators in this month’s Cosplay Showcase! Aloy | Photo: Sarah Jenak Photography ArtcoreCosplay Being a fan of anime, and watching […]

Big Birthday Weekend 2018: find a Jam near you!

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’re just over three weeks away from the Raspberry Jam Big Birthday Weekend 2018, our community celebration of Raspberry Pi’s sixth birthday. Instead of an event in Cambridge, as we’ve held in the past, we’re coordinating Raspberry Jam events to take place around the world on 3–4 March, so that as many people as possible […]

Community Profile: Dr. Lucy Rogers

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis column is from The MagPi issue 58. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve our charitable goals. Dr Lucy […]

Four days of STEAM at Bett 2018

Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’re an educator from the UK, chances are you’ve heard of Bett. For everyone else: Bett stands for British Education Technology Tradeshow. It’s the El Dorado of edtech, where every street is adorned with interactive whiteboards, VR headsets, and new technologies for the classroom. Every year since 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has been […]

Celebrate African-American History Month

Reading Time: 2 minutesart by ViciousFool African-American History Month, more commonly known as Black History Month, began as an appreciation week founded by Carter G. Woodson and minister Jesse E. Moorland in 1926. Every American President since 1976 has signed a proclamation designating February as National African-American History Month. This month in honor of African-American History Month, we’re […]

Raspberry Crusoe: how a Pi got lost at sea

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe tale of the little HAB that could and its three-month journey from Portslade Aldridge Community Academy in the UK to the coast of Denmark. PACA Computing on Twitter Where did it land ???? #skypaca #skycademy @pacauk #RaspberryPi High-altitude ballooning Some of you may be familiar with Raspberry Pi being used as the flight computer, […]

2017 Weather Station round-up

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs we head into 2018 and start looking forward to longer days in the Northern hemisphere, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s weather using data from Raspberry Pi Oracle Weather Stations. One of the great things about the kit is that as well as uploading all its readings to the shared […]

Coolest Projects: for young people across the Raspberry Pi community

Reading Time: 4 minutesCoolest 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. […]