Pi-Face Digital is the first of a range of interfaces to allow the Raspberry Pi to control and manipulate the real world. It allows the Raspberry Pi to read switches connected to it – a door sensor or pressure pad perhaps, a microswitch or reed switch, or a hand held button.
Raspberry Pi has been a project seven years in the making. It’s often felt like the closer we got to our goals, the further away they seemed. But we’re having the time of our lives. We’ve only been selling for six months, and we’ve sold around half a million units already. Universities are giving Pis to their freshmen as a gift on arrival; 7-year-old kids are sending us videos of their adventures writing Scratch games.
So in the end, I guess you can have the hard and soft little bits of everything.
(engineer Pete Lomas shares details of how they did it, and what tradeoffs had to be made)
The Department for Education (DfE) has just announced that Computer Science is to be added to the new English Baccalaureate or EBacc. The EBacc is a series of new qualifications to replace the GCSEs that English kids take at 16, designed to be more rigorous than the existing standards.
This is an enormous curricular change for England, which has traditionally recognised only Physics, Biology and Chemistry as core science subjects. Computer Science is now on a level footing with those subjects, carrying the same weight and prestige, and having an equal impact on choices pupils can make later about A Levels and University courses. This is wonderful news.
The old ICT courses did not prepare students for studying Computer Science at university (or for much else); we’re delighted to see their replacement being treated as a proper, exacting academic subject.
"It is great news that Google is helping the brilliant Raspberry Pi project (will provide 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model Bs for schoolkids around the UK). We are replacing the old-fashioned ICT curriculum with a Computer Science curriculum. This will combine with the Raspberry Pi project to spread teaching of computer coding which is so educationally and economically vital."
Για αποστολές προς χερσαίους προορισμούς οι παραδόσεις πραγματοποιούνται σε διάστημα 1-3 ημερών ενώ για νησιώτικους προορισμούς σε 2-4 μέρες (αποστολές πραγματοποιούνται καθημερινά εκτός Σαββάτου και Κυριακής).
Τα έξοδα αποστολής με αντικαταβολή για αποστολές σε όλη την Ελλάδα εξαρτώνται από το βάρος των αντικειμένων που θα αποσταλούν. Εφόσον η περιοχή είναι δυσπρόσιτη θα επικοινωνήσουμε μαζί σας για την αλλαγή της χρέωσης αποστολής.
We’ve bent to popular demand. A lot of you – particularly our younger readers – have been asking us why we don’t have an official Raspberry Pi Facebook page. The answer has always been one of resource; up until now we simply haven’t had the necessary number of people on the team to put the extra time in that a Facebook presence requires.
Today’s a very special day for us here at Raspberry Pi. It’s the first anniversary of the Pi’s launch day. (It’s as near as we can get; we launched on a leap day last year. We’re going to have a really great party in 2016.)
But you hear from me all the time. So for today’s post I’ve asked members of the Pi family to share a few words with us about the way this year has looked to them instead. This is a long post. But it’s a good’un.
