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Thur, 22 April 2021
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RPI sales soar! Covid 19.

In Tech Republic, April 17, 2020... "From ending battles over the only PC in the house to supporting 3D printing and ventilator projects, the tiny single-board computer is suddenly in great demand."

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/raspberry-pi-why-sales-have-rocketed-in-the-middle-of-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

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Raspberry Pi News

Play your retro console on a modern TV April 9, 2021
Want to connect your retro console to your modern TV? The latest issue of Wireframe magazine has the only guide you need, courtesy of My Life in Gaming’s Mark Duddleson. “Get a Raspberry Pi. Done.” It’s probably the most frequently recurring comment we get across all videos on the My Life in Gaming YouTube channel,… […]
Ryan Lambie
Raspberry Pi automatically refills your water bottle April 8, 2021
YouTuber Chris Courses takes hydration seriously, but all those minutes spent filling up water bottles take a toll. 15 hours per year, to be exact. Chris regularly uses three differently sized water bottles and wanted to build something to fill them all to their exact measurements. (Polite readers may like to be warned of a… […]
Ashley Whittaker
Raspberry Pi Zero W turns iPod Classic into Spotify music player April 7, 2021
Recreating Apple’s iconic iPod Classic as a Spotify player may seem like sacrilege but it works surprisingly well, finds Rosie Hattersley. Check out the latest issue of The MagPi magazine (pg 8 – 12) for a tutorial to follow if you’d like to create your own. When the original iPod was launched, the idea of… […]
Ashley Whittaker
214 teams granted Flight Status for Astro Pi Mission Space Lab 2020/21! April 6, 2021
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and ESA Education are excited to announce that 214 teams participating in Mission Space Lab of this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge have achieved Flight Status. That means they will have their computer programs run on the International Space Station (ISS) later this month! Mission Space Lab gives teams of students… […]
Claire Given
Remake Manic Miner’s collapsing platforms | Wireframe #49 April 1, 2021
Traverse a crumbly cavern in our homage to a Spectrum classic. Mark Vanstone has the code One of the most iconic games on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum featured a little man called Miner Willy, who spent his days walking and jumping from platform to platform collecting the items needed to unlock the door on each… […]
Ryan Lambie

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