Raspberry Pi hits the headlines

Some recent and past coverage of the remarkable Raspberry Pi mini computer.

For more of the latest coverage, see In the Press

RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit Launches On Kickstarter (video)
Geeky gadgets
If you enjoy building electronic devices and love the Raspberry Pi mini PC this new RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit might be the perfect project for you. The RAPIRO Raspberry Pi Robot Kit has been designed to accommodate a Raspberry Pi mini PC as its ...

Build a Solar-Powered Raspberry Pi
LifeHacker India
An enterprising Hacker News user has built a Raspberry Pi server that's entirely run on solar power, along with instructions on how you can, too. Raspberry Pi can do a lot of neat things and the server this user built is just one of many. 

Kickstarter project funds automation card for $35 Raspberry PI computer
Drives & Controls
The US-based robotic controls specialist Roboteq is collaborating on a crowd-funded Kickstarter project aimed at creating an intelligent I/O card that will convert the $35/£28 Raspberry PI single-board computer into an embedded computer for robotics ...

Raspberry Pi gets its own media center kit : £ 46 for easy XBMC and controller ...

Engadget
Behold, a ready-made answer for those who own a Linux-powered fruit machine but who are still looking for new ways to use it. It's a simple media center starter kit, fresh out and shipping today, which makes it easy to hook your Raspberry Pi up to an HDMI display and use it to play video or music...

Rasberry Pi inventor Dr Eben Upton (Computer Laboratory) launches competition in local schools to find next generation of computer scientists (Cambridge News)

Raspberry Pi cameras get sent into space and the photo results are out of this world
imaging resource
It's only been a couple of weeks since the 5-megapixel Raspberry Pi camera debuted, and already people are doing incredible things with them. Like, say, sending these home-brew cameras to the edge of space attached to a weather balloon.

HOT Raspberry Pi DIY Mini Desktop PC Build
Hot Hardware
We recently set out to design a mini desktop computer with the wildly popular Raspberry Pi single board computer. The Raspberry Pi is a Linux-driven, ARM processor-based micro computer that is known for its low cost and small size. 

Watch and record live TV on your Raspberry Pi
TechRadar UK
Many of those set-top boxes hidden under televisions are already running Linux. And despite their lack of CPU power, they're all more than capable of recording and playing several channels at the same time, as well as streaming the data across your local network. The Raspberry Pi is perfectly suited to this, too...

Leaders From Raspberry Pi and Valve Top Keynote Speaker Line Up for ...
Wall Street Journal (press release)
HP Labs, Intel, OpenStack, Raspberry Pi, Valve and the founder of Wired Magazine will come together in "The Big Easy" to discuss future of Linux, open cloud and collaborative development.

The enormous possibilities that open hardware offer
The Hindu
Popular electronic hardware offering freedom to study, understand, modify and share the design are Arduino, the lesser-known Beagle Bone from Texas Instruments, and the not-so-open hardware project, Raspberry Pi. 

Raspberry Pi Rising: 7 Incredible Projects People Are Making With The Single ...
International Business Times
The affordability and versatility of Raspberry Pi is what makes the computer so attractive: In the U.S., the circuit board costs between $25 and $35, and the computers can support nearly 20 different operating systems and plenty of I/O systems for ...

Raspberry Pi sales soar past 1 million as U.K production tops 500000 units
BGR
The bulk of Raspberry Pi production moved from China last September to one of Sony’s factories in Wales. The Raspberry Pi Foundation this week announced that the U.K. plant has now produced more than 500,000 units in a little over six months.

Where In The World Are The 1.2M Raspberry Pi Microcomputers? Mostly In The ...
TechCrunch
One to 1.2 million Raspberry Pi microcomputers have shipped since the device’s launch just over a year ago but where in the world are they located? While it’s impossible to say exactly where* each Pi has ended up, the vast majority of the devices sold to-date have shipped to developed nations — including the U.S. and the U.K. But the potential of the Pi as a low cost learning-focused computing platform for developing countries remains very exciting.

Magic mirror
Vision Systems Design (blog)
Regular readers to this blog will be aware of the coverage that I have devoted in the past to a company called Raspberry Pi , a spin out from that UK hive of cerebral activity, Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK).

Raspberry Pi: Getting close and personal with it
ITProPortal
When your Raspberry Pi arrives, you’ll see it’s a circuit board, about the size of a credit card, with components and sockets stuck on it. In an age when most computing devices are sleek and shiny boxes, the spiky Pi, with tiny codes printed in white all over it, seems alien.

Raspberry Pi makes video walls cheap and energy efficient
Muktware
Raspberry Pi is being used not only to feed cats but also make affordable video walls.

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