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Raspberry Pi

August 2024

  • A boy celebrates advancing to the next level on a video game at the American Classic Arcade Museum in Laconia, New Hampshire.<br>F3E7YW A boy celebrates advancing to the next level on a video game at the American Classic Arcade Museum in Laconia, New Hampshire.

    A slice of Raspberry Pi: how to build your own retro games machine

    With a £34 mini computer and an emulator, gaming’s entire back catalogue opens up to you to play. But there are important points to consider – not least questions of legality

June 2024

  • PIDP-10 computer

    SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer

    A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966

May 2024

  • a child and an adult use a computer in a learning workshop; the young girl, who wears a bright red sweatshirt, is seen in front of a computer attached to a bright green screen as a man in a striped hoodie looks on. Other screens and people are partly seen in the foreground and background.

    Raspberry Pi: how push for child programming skills inspired a coding generation

  • Raspberry Pi 4 Model B single-board computer (4 GB RAM) on a black anti-static mat.

    Tech firm Raspberry Pi readies for London stock market float

January 2020

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Why we need to blow a Raspberry at big tech…

    John Naughton
    The Raspberry Pi has notched up 30m sales – fulfilling the promise of user-controlled programming and inspiring children

August 2017

  • Small boy looking at laptop

    Ask Jack
    Should I buy my eight-year-old son the laptop he is badgering us for?

    Gareth’s son wants a laptop, but he might end up spending too much time playing games. If he got a Raspberry Pi would he learn more about computing?

December 2016

  • Raspberry Pi motion time lapse camera<br>I’ve always been fascinated by time lapse photography. This project saw me controlling a set of servo motors with an Arduino and then using a Raspberry Pi to capture the images.

    Community
    Quadcopters to Alzheimer's solutions: readers' best Raspberry Pi projects

    Imaginative readers shared their home tech projects – here are some of our favourites, from their visionary solutions to the delightfully pointless
  • Raspberry Pi Solar and Smart home data logger We made a data logging system using a Raspberry Pi and a custom circuit board which logs the output from our solar PV system and solar thermal (hot water) and uploads the data every minute to a reporting website on http://home.briandorey.com/ There are more photos and details anbout the project on my blog at http://www.briandorey.com/post/raspberry-pi-solar-data-logger-version-2.aspx

    Community
    Share your best Raspberry Pi or Arduino projects

    We were thrilled with your creative contributions last time we asked – a year on, we want to see what you’ve been making in 2016
  • Simon Riley of Maker Club

    Robots beware, children are in training for the jobs of tomorrow

    After-school tech clubs and Raspberry Pi are reigniting hobbyist computing and creating a talent pipeline

September 2016

  • Raspberry Pi

    The Guardian view on the Raspberry Pi: small is beautiful

    Editorial: The digital world gives us convenience at the price of control. The Pi reverses that balance

June 2016

  • The Raspberry Pi computer, a series of circuits and USB sockets

    Raspberry Pi maker to sell company for £615m to Swiss Dätwyler

    Shares in Premier Farnell, maker of £20 educational computer for children, rise by 50% as sale is announced

February 2016

  • The Raspberry Pi 3.

    Raspberry Pi 3: the credit card-sized 1.2GHz PC that costs $35

    Raspberry Pi foundation launches new model as it announces 8m devices have been sold in four years, making it the UK’s all-time bestselling computer

December 2015

  • Sinclair ZX81

    Community
    Best reader Raspberry Pi projects – and some of the most pointless

    From musical tweetbots to rejuvenated and repurposed arcade games and cameras, here are some of the best hacks and projects you told us about.

November 2015

  • A Doctor Who-themed Raspberry Pi project sent in by a reader.

    Community
    Raspberry Pi: share your projects and home hacks

  • The Raspberry Pi Zero – and how much it costs to buy.

    Raspberry Pi's latest computer so cheap it comes free with magazine

August 2015

  • Raspberry Pi computer

    Raspberry Pi manufacturer ousts chief executive after run of bad results

    Laurence Bain led Premier Farnell, which makes the educational mini-computer, for three years but saw stock plunge to a six-year low in July

June 2015

  • Raspberry Pi helped boost Premier Farnell's sales.

    Market Forces blog
    Premier Farnell falls on profit margin concerns

    Component distributor down 4% while Playtech hit by £250m placing plan
  • House

    Connected world
    How to turn your old house into a smart home

    Connected appliances, heating and more are making homes smarter. But what can you do if you live in a centuries-old dwelling?
  • LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 21: Prime Minister David Cameron and Home secretary Theresa May are accompanied by immigration enforcement officers into a home in Southall in London following an early morning raid on the property that yielded three arrests of illegal immigrants, on May 21, 2015 in London, England. Despite pledging in 2010 to reduce migration numbers to less than 100,000, new immigration figures reveal that net migration to the UK reached 318,000 last year, the highest in a decade, increasing more

    David Cameron, the 'snooper's charter' will not make us safer

    Cory Doctorow
    The UK government appears to have swallowed a fly – and it’s not the bad guys who’ll die, but our liberty

March 2015

  • ‘Mini-makers’: Imogen, eight, and Oren Lewandowski, six. Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Observer

    Tried and tested
    The latest ‘kidtech’ kits: tried and tested

    Stef Lewandowski: Give your children the chance to be creators, not just consumers of technology
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