The BBC has announced a major project, developed in pioneering partnership with over 25 organisations, which aims to give a million “personal coding devices” free to every child in year 7 across the UK (corresponding to first year of secondary school in Ireland). Still in development, the device has been nicknamed the ‘Micro Bit’, though the name may […]
Raspberry Pi is known as the’credit-card-sized’ computer. Not anymore: the newest Model A+ is even smaller, measuring 55mm x 65mm! They’ve redesigned it to get rid of a lot of “wasted space”. Like its predecessor, the Model A, the A+ has just 256MB of onboard RAM (as opposed to 512MB for the Model B and B+), a single USB connection […]
When Limerickman David Hunt announced his latest DIY project on his blog in the last week of April he was hardly expecting the response that followed. His YouTube video racked up nearly half a million views and he was subsequently interviewed by Sky News. The project is PiPhone, a smartphone based on a Raspberry Pi, […]
Today Raspberry Pi announced that their “Model B” unit comes with 512MB of ram instead of the 256MB it came with previously. In their announcement they said that anyone waiting on a model B should get the 512MB model starting today October 15th. There will also be a firmware update within the coming weeks that […]
