Schlagwort: Raspberry Pi Resources
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A rather snazzy Raspberry Pi 4 wallpaper for your phone and computer
Reading Time: 2 minutesFiacre took a rather snazzy photo of a Raspberry Pi 4, and he liked it so much that he set it as his iPhone’s wallpaper. And we liked it so much that we asked him to produce size variants so we could share them with all of you. You’ll find three variants…
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Keynote speeches from Scratch Conference Europe 2019
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis weekend, the Raspberry Pi Foundation hosted Scratch Conference Europe 2019 at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK. Framing the busy weekend’s schedule were presentations from: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab’s Mitchel Resnick, co-inventor of Scratch himself Science presenter Neil Monterio Raspberry Pi favourite, the fire-loving Fran Scott Since not everyone…
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Scratch 3 Desktop for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 4 minutesYou can now install and use Scratch 3 Desktop for Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi! Scratch 3 Scratch 3 was released in January this year, and since then we and the Scratch team have put lots of work into creating an offline version for Raspberry Pi. The new version of Scratch has…
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Build a Raspberry Pi music box with Sally Le Page
Reading Time: < 1 minuteConnecting buttons to the GPIO pins of your Raspberry Pi instantly opens up your digital making to the world of clicky funtimes. Our Music Box project teaches you how to connect several buttons to your Raspberry Pi and write code to make them trigger cool sound effects. It’s fun. It’s easy.…
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Monitor air quality with a Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 8 minutesAdd a sensor and some Python 3 to your Raspberry Pi to keep tabs on your local air pollution, in the project taken from Hackspace magazine issue 21. Air is the very stuff we breathe. It’s about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% argon, and then there’s the assorted ‘other’ bits and…
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Hack your old Raspberry Pi case for the Raspberry Pi 4
Reading Time: 2 minutesHack your existing Raspberry Pi case to fit the layout of your new Raspberry Pi 4, with this handy “How to hack your existing Raspberry Pi case to fit the layout of your new Raspberry Pi 4” video! Hack your old Raspberry Pi case to fit your Raspberry Pi 4 Hack your…
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How to build databases using Python and text files | Hello World #9
Reading Time: 6 minutesIn Hello World issue 9, Raspberry Pi’s own Mac Bowley shares a lesson that introduces students to databases using Python and text files. In this lesson, students create a library app for their books. This will store information about their book collection and allow them to display, manipulate, and search their collection. You…
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The NEW Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide: updated for Raspberry Pi 4
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTo coincide with the launch of Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi Press has created a new edition of The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide book — as if this week wasn’t exciting enough! Weighing in at 252 pages, the book is even bigger than before, and it’s fully updated for Raspberry…
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Make a retro console with RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi — part 2
Reading Time: 5 minutesHere’s part two of Lucy Hattersley’s wonderful retro games console tutorial. Part 1 of the tutorial lives here, for those of you who missed it. Choose the network locale RetroPie boots into EmulationStation, which is your starter interface. It’s currently displaying just the one option, RetroPie, which is used to set up…
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Make a retro console with RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi — part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutesDiscover classic gaming on the Raspberry Pi and play homebrew ROMs, with this two-part tutorial from The MagPi Editor Lucy Hattersley. Raspberry Pi retro games console Turning a Raspberry Pi device into a retro games console is a fun project, and it’s one of the first things many a new Pi owner…
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Meet us at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ll be attending Maker Faire Bay Area this month and we’d love to see as many of you there as we can, so be sure to swing by the Raspberry Pi stand and say hi! Our North America team will be on-hand and hands-on all weekend to show you the wonders of…
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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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New Wolfram Mathematica free resources for your Raspberry Pi
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe’ve worked alongside the team at Wolfram Mathematica to create ten new free resources for our projects site, perfect to use at home, or in your classroom, Code Club, or CoderDojo. Try out the Wolfram Language today, available as a free download for your Raspberry Pi (download details are below). The Wolfram Language…
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Laser-engraved Raspberry Pi hologram
Reading Time: 2 minutesInspired by an old episode of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank, and with easy access to the laser cutter at the Raspberry Pi Foundation office, I thought it would be fun to create a light-up multi-layered hologram using a Raspberry Pi and the Pimoroni Unicorn pHAT. Raspberry Pi layered light Read more – Break…
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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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GPIO Zero v1.5 is here!
Reading Time: 6 minutesGPIO Zero is a zero-boilerplate Python library that makes physical computing with Python more accessible and helps people progress from zero to hero. Today, I’m pleased to announce the release of GPIO Zero v1.5.0. It’s packed full of updates, including new features, bug fixes, and lots of improvements to the documentation. Guido,…
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Guess what…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRaspberry Pi Store – NOW OPEN #RPiStore We opened a store! Visit us in the Grand Arcade, Cambridge, UK, and follow #RPiStore for more photos and funtimes! Raspberry Pi StoreFirst FloorGrand ArcadeCambridge OPEN FROM 9am #RPiStore For more information, visit the Raspberry Pi Store webpage. Website: LINK
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Scratch 3, and upgrading our free resources
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn 2 January, MIT released the latest version of their incredible visual programming language: Scratch 3! Scratch 3 is here We love Scratch — it’s the perfect starting point for young people who want to try coding, and we’re offering a huge variety of free Scratch project guides for all interests and…
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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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The Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide is out now (and it’s huge!)
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Raspberry Pi Press has been hard at work of late, producing new issues of The MagPi, HackSpace magazine, and our latest publication, Wireframe. But that hasn’t slowed us down, and this week, we’re pleased to announce the release of The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, a 244-page book that will help…
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The age of the Twitter bot
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite changes to the process, setting up a Raspberry Pi as a Twitter bot is a fairly easy process. And while many such bots simply share time-lapse snapshots, or change the colour of LEDs across the globe, we know some that fill our timelines with fun, random joyfulness of a daily basis.…
