Schlagwort: Our Staff
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Machine learning and depth estimation using Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of our engineers, David Plowman, describes machine learning and shares news of a Raspberry Pi depth estimation challenge run by ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Spoiler alert – it’s all happening virtually, so you can definitely make the trip and attend, or maybe even enter yourself. What is Machine…
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Why a great teacher can make all the difference
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhen we think back to our school days, we can all recall that one teacher who inspired us, believed in us, and made all the difference to how we approached a particular subject. It was someone we maybe took for granted at the time and so we only realised (much) later how…
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Sue Sentance recognised with Suffrage Science award
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’re pleased to share that Dr Sue Sentance, our Chief Learning Officer, is receiving a Suffrage Science award for Mathematics and Computing today. The Suffrage Science award scheme celebrates women in science. Sue is being recognised for her achievements in computer science and computing education research, and for her work promoting computing…
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Congratulations Carrie Anne Philbin, MBE
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe are delighted to share the news that Carrie Anne Philbin, Raspberry Pi’s Director of Educator Support, has been awarded an MBE for her services to education in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020. Carrie Anne Philbin, newly minted MBE Carrie Anne was one of the first employees of the Raspberry Pi Foundation…
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Is upgrade culture out of date?
Reading Time: 8 minutesAt Raspberry Pi, we’re interested in all things to do with technology, from building new tools and helping people teach computing, to researching how young people learn to create with technology and thinking about the role tech plays in our lives and society. Today, I’m writing about our habit of replacing devices…
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Can algorithms be unethical?
Reading Time: 5 minutesAt Raspberry Pi, we’re interested in all things to do with technology, from building new tools and helping people teach computing, to researching how young people learn to create with technology and thinking about the role tech plays in our lives and society. One of the aspects of technology I myself have…
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“17% women in tech is not enough”
Reading Time: 6 minutesTechnology should be for everyone, but it has to be built by everyone to be for everyone. At Raspberry Pi, we work to empower everyone to become a tech creator and shape our collective digital future, and we hope that our work will help to increase the tech sector’s diversity. Today, part…
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Pulling Raspberry Pi translation data from GitHub
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat happens when you give two linguists jobs at Raspberry Pi? They start thinking they can do digital making, even though they have zero coding skills! Because if you don’t feel inspired to step out of your comfort zone here — surrounded by all the creativity, making, and technology — then there…
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We asked our engineers your Raspberry Pi 4 questions…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe collected some of the most common Raspberry Pi 4 questions asked by you, our community, and sat down with Eben Upton, James Adams, and Gordon Hollingworth to get some answers. Raspberry Pi 4 Q&A We grilled our engineers with your Raspberry Pi 4 questions Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub…
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Snazzy photographs of Raspberry Pis #SnazzyRPi
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you don’t follow Raspberry Pi on Instagram, you really should, for there you will find #SnazzyRPi, a collection of snazzy-looking Raspberry Pi photographs taken by our very own Fiacre Muller. Do you have a Raspberry Pi 3 A+? What have you built with it? . And how snazzy is this photo…
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His Royal Highness the Duke of York visits Raspberry Pi HQ
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe welcomed a very special guest to Raspberry Pi HQ today. Our Patron, His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, visited our central Cambridge HQ to meet our team, learn more about our work, and give his support for our mission to help more young people learn how to create…
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An Introduction to C & GUI Programming – the new book from Raspberry Pi Press
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe latest book from Raspberry Pi Press, An Introduction to C & GUI Programming, is now available. Author Simon Long explains how it came to be written… Learning C I remember my first day in a ‘proper’ job very well. I’d just left university, and was delighted to have been taken on…
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Eight years, 2000 blog posts
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday’s a bit of a milestone for us: this is the 2000th post on this blog. Why does a computer company have a blog? When did it start, who writes it, and where does the content come from? And don’t you have sore fingers? All of these are good questions: I’m here…
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Make our light-up Raspberry Pi box for #MonthOfMaking
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday, Rob at The MagPi magazine tweeted this: The MagPi magazine on Twitter Hey @Raspberry_Pi, wanna join us in making some stuff for #MonthOfMaking? Rob has some cosplay to do this week and other plans for the rest of the month… And we said YES! At this point in time, Alex…
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What we are learning about learning
Reading Time: 5 minutesAcross 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…
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Staff Picademy and the sacrificial Babbage
Reading Time: 3 minutesRefill the coffee machine, unpack the sacrificial Babbages, and refresh the micro SD cards — it’s staff Picademy time! Staff Picademy Once a year, when one of our all-staff meeting brings together members of the Raspberry Pi team from across the globe, we host staff Picademy at our office. It’s two days of…
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Developer Q&A: brand-new online training courses
Reading Time: 6 minutesThere is always a flurry of activity at the start of the new academic year, and we are getting in on the action: this autumn and winter, we’ll be launching four new online courses! They are completely free and aim to give educators a solid grounding in the concepts and practical applications…
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Guess the weight, win a thing!
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday marks the four-year anniversary of Nicola Early joining the Raspberry Pi team. Nicola works as Administrator at Pi Towers and is responsible for so many things that I dare not try to list them all. But among all her tasks, the most important one is the care and maintenance of the office…
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Hang out with Raspberry Pi this month in California, New York, and Boston
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month sees two wonderful events where you can meet the Raspberry Pi team, both taking place on the weekend of September 22 and 23 in the USA. And for more impromptu fun, you can also hang out with our Social Media Editor and fellow Pi enthusiasts on the East Coast on…
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The last 10%: revamping the Raspberry Pi desktop
Reading Time: 4 minutesSimon Long is a Senior Principal Software Engineer here at Raspberry Pi. He’s responsible for the Raspberry Pi Desktop on both Raspbian and Debian, and his article from The MagPi issue 73 explores the experience of revamping our desktop. Get your copy of The MagPi in stores now, or download it as a…
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New software to get you started with high-altitude ballooning
Reading Time: 4 minutesRight 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…
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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…
