Raspberry Jam at the National STEM Centre York, Saturday 8th June 2013

A post from Mr Raspberry Jam himself, Alan O'Donohoe. This one promises to huge and fabulous, and the National STEM Centre is an outstanding venue. I am strangley drawn to joining the trans-Pennine convoy from Preston. "You may have seen that we are holding a big Raspberry Jam in York on Saturday 8th June, 3 weeks today.

Maker Faire Google Hangout with Eben

We?ll be talking more later this week about the New Out Of the Box System (NOOBS) wh

New in the Swag Shop: recycled CD case pencils!

These feel lovely when you sharpen them, have a beauteous Raspberry Pi logo at the end, and are made in solid colours from recycled CD cases. Buy some, look funky when you doodle, help fund computi

Troubleshooting: so easy a ten-year-old can do it

The ten-year-old in question is Jessica, Gordon?s daughter, who dropped into the office last week to give us a hand testing some Raspberry Pis that customers had sent back to the manufacturers as ?

Gigapi: a Raspberry Pi rig for gigapixel photography

We've seen a number of photographers who have taken to the Pi as a way to bring down the cost of the sort of kit that was, pre-Pi, outside the budgets of mere mortals. Case in point: gigapixel photography.

Tokyo: Big Raspberry Jam 2013

Eben and I are going to be out of the UK for much of the rest of May, doing press, meeting partners, visiting Raspberry Pi fans, hanging out with science fair kids and giving talks. We'll be in Phoenix for Intel ISEF, San Francisco for Maker Faire (come and listen to our talk!

Live motion tracking

It is a bank holiday, and we are all quite?cheerful, post company barbecue, so I will keep this brief. Here?s a motion tracking demo from Erik Haberup. He says:

In case the Raspb

A very happy first birthday to The MagPi!

The MagPi is a community magazine, which is not produced or otherwise fiddled around with by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This month's issue is a little more Foundation-heavy than usual, though, because it's a celebratory edition: you'll find an article from me, and (rather more interestingly) a very in-depth interview with Pete Lomas, our Grand Vizier of Hardware.

Blast off game

Here?s another little snippet of video from Mike Cook. This game is one of the projects you?ll be able to make with Raspberry Pi for Dummies (

Guest post from Khan Academy Lite

Liz: We?ve been talking a bit about Khan Academy Lite on this blog recently. KA Lite is the offline version of Khan Academy, and we?ve recently seen the Kingdom of Bhutan?s first Raspberry Pi b

Raspberry Pi, for all your 50s diner needs

Have you ever been to a cafe or restaurant with 1950s jukebox wallboxes in each booth? Wallboxes were an extension for a jukebox, making it more convenient to select music right from your table. Yo

MAKE and MCM Raspberry Pi Design Competition: the winners!

MAKE held a Raspberry Pi Design competition with MCM Electronics for US-based Pi owners, and have just released the results. I'm not sure what's more impressive: the outstanding quality of the entries, or the fact that even though we spend much of the day furiously googling for new Pi projects, many of the submissions were new to us here at the Foundation.

Rob, Bacon

Our very own Justin Bieber, Rob Bishop, was at the world?s best-named conference last week. Bacon (www.devslovebacon.com) is a London conference on things

The Raspberry Pi in scientific research

The cost implications that come with finding yourself able to buy a computer for $25 are significant for all of us, but they can make a real difference to the way cash-strapped researchers do things. We're seeing a surprising number of university departments around the world using the Pi for the sort of tasks you'd previously have pointed a PC at, with very gratifying results.

University of Cambridge Computer Lab 75th anniversary

We?re celebrating today: it?s the 75th anniversary of the University of Cambridge?s Computer Laboratory. From its beginnings in 1938 as the Mathematical Laboratory, it?s provided the foundations fo

Hackspace security system

NESIT is the New England Society of Information and Technology in Connecticut, and they have a made a security system for their hackspace that gives us terrible feelings of envy.

Bird photography with a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR

Tricky things, birds. Even when you've got yourself sorted out with boxes and feeders to entice them into your garden, it can be very difficult to get a decent photograph - they don't stay still for long, especially if they see you coming (and it is amazing at just how adept birds are at spotting the slightest movement - the sort of movement you might make to operate the zoom lens on your camera, for example), and many feeding birds will only visit the table for a few seconds at a time, even if you're well hidden.

Use your desktop or laptop screen and keyboard with your Pi

Meltwater has come up with a nice little trick which allows you to use your laptop or desktop?s display and keyboard as the display and keyboard for your Pi. You won?t need to do any soldering or t

Oliver and Amelia make a bee box

Oliver is five, and has produced this lovely bee box for school. He did the modelling, the painting and some of the soldering, and had lots of help from his very talented big sister Amelia, who is

Raspberry Pi colocation

In late February we began giving people the opportunity to colocate their Raspberry Pi in our data center - for free. Now, almost two months later, we have over 400 people making use of the initiative with new signups still coming in daily.