The digital divide: interactions between socioeconomic disadvantage and computing education
Digital technology is developing at pace, impacting us all. Most of us use screens and all kinds of computers much more than we did five years ago. The total number of apps downloaded globally each quarter has doubled since 2015, reflecting both increased smartphone penetration and the increasingly prominent role of apps in our lives.…
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Raspberry Pi R2D2 console (plus tons of other Star Wars projects)
Diehard Nintendo and Star Wars fan electrouser301 is behind this customised R2D2 Raspberry Pi-powered console. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is its brain, and a Nintendo GameCube was customised with spray paint and hand-cut stencils. Unleash your inner child Telling the story of the build, electrouser301 said: “When I saw what people were doing with…
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Commodore 64 + Raspberry Pi 4 = Synth6581
We have a special blog today from one of our own design engineers, Simon Martin. He’s the designer of Raspberry Pi 400 and our High Quality Camera and spends his free time tinkering with electronic music. Simon has wanted to make his own electronic musical instrument with Raspberry Pi for some time. He designed a…
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Pico Pico Synth | HackSpace #44
In the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Ben Everard shows us how to create a framework for building audio devices using Raspberry Pi Pico, called PicoPicoSynth. Raspberry Pi Pico combines processing power with the ability to shuffle data in and out quickly. This makes it a good fit for a lot of different things, but…
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Build a Raspberry Pi Pico piano
Did you catch the very cool Raspberry Pi Pico piano project shared on the latest Digital Making at Home livestream? The sibling maker group from the GurgleApps family, Amelie, Caleb, and Ziva, chatted about how they got into coding before inviting us into miniature musical mayhem. What do you need to make a Raspberry Pi…
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Make a Raspberry Pi-powered BMO Adventure Time console
If you’re a fan of the animated TV series Adventure Time, you’re already excited and scrolling to see how you can build your own Be MOre (BMO) console. And if you’re not: BMO is Adventure Time main characters Finn’s and Jake’s sentient video game system-cum-roomate. OK, but what does BMO do? DIY enthusiast Lazuardi Rinaldi,…
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Meet Katt Strike: Musician, producer, and Twitch streamer
Musician, producer, and Twitch star Katt Strike chats to Wireframe magazine about video games, toxicity online and the appeal of streaming. What’s your favourite game? Oh, that’s a very hard question! I’d have to narrow it down between Fallout: New Vegas and The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. And why is that? What is it…
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How do you use data to solve a real-world problem? | Hello World #16
In our brand-new issue of Hello World magazine, editor Gemma Coleman speaks to Kate Farrell from Data Education in Schools to discuss the importance of teaching data to help students navigate the world. When I was searching for contributors for this issue of Hello World, a pattern quickly began to emerge: “Data? You want to…
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The Computers That Made Britain on sale now
TL;DR: Computer History nerds, we wrote you a book. The Computers That Made Britain The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines. Machines that would go on to inspire a generation, such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. The Computers That Made Britain tells the story of those…
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Coolest Projects 2021: young people’s journeys & special judges’ favourites
Wow, we haven’t stopped smiling since yesterday’s live Coolest Projects celebration! Hosts Maddie Moate and Greg Foot led us through a live online event jam-packed with stories from participants, cool tech creations, and inspiring messages from our special judges. AND they revealed whose projects the judges picked as their favourites from among all of this…
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