Archive: 2015

Raspberry Pi Zero

Starting today, shops and newsagents are stocking a computer magazine called The MagPi, and as a world's first, this magazine comes with a free computer—literally stuck to the front cover. It's the newest Raspberry Pi release, called Pi Zero. This computer also goes on sale around the world for...

The story of pyjokes

Last year I was invited to speak at PySS in San Sebastian, Spain, and I met a great bunch of guys: the conference organisers Alex, Oier and Borja. We started a project called pyjokes (one line programmer jokes / jokes-as-a-service). I gave a 5 minute lightning talk at PyCon UK last weekend telling...

New column on opensource.com

I now have a monthly column on opensource.com – a brilliant website for all things open source. I'll be writing articles about Raspberry Pi – particularly its use in education. My first piece was published last week, covering the Astro Pi competition – we're sending two Raspberry Pis to the...

Raspberry Pi 2 Launch

Last month the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the second generation of its affordable single board computer: the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. I've been working at Raspberry Pi for over a year now and this is the fourth product launch I've been involved with: first there was the compute module for...