The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive lightweight computer designed for teaching programming to school children. At the moment it is available as a bare-bones processor board, but there are plans for a cased version in future. In the meantime there are some 3rd parties that have created or are in the process of creating cases. [...]

What is the Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi is a small computer. It’s about the same length and width as a credit card and costs only $32. It has been designed as a educational computer for school children to learn to program, but is also hugely popular due to it’s small size and amazing low [...]

Make: Electronics is a practical guide to hobby electronics. It’s very much a hands-on guide encouraging learning by experimentation. Some of the experiments involve deliberate damage to components. Whilst I understand that this can be a good way to learn I think there are other ways of teaching which don’t encourage deliberately overloading components. My [...]

Well it’s taken me a few days, but I think I’ve finally got Kubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed on my laptop with the graphics drivers working correctly. Why Kubuntu? I have been a fan of Ubuntu since it first came out, until they forced Unity on us. I’ve tried to get on with Unity having tried [...]

After a long wait the Harry Potter books are now available as ebooks. I wrote in an earlier blog post that these were expected to be available as DRM free ebooks in October 2011, but it is now 6 months later and quite a long time since many other books became available as ebooks. The [...]

I’ve now released an alpha version of the new PHP version of wQuiz – an open source web quiz program. This is still in alpha so it is not yet suitable for running on a production system, but is ready for general testing. It has taken about a year and over 8,000 lines of code [...]

Ever since I first heard about the Raspberry Pi I’ve wanted one. I saw the advance announcement and woke up early on the day of the launch in an attempt to get one of the first batch. I was unsuccessful, but after waiting so long a few more weeks is not really going to be [...]

It seams like everyone is trying to get hold of a Raspberry Pi, but what exactly is it and what is all the fuss about?

I’ve always admired Sir Richard Branson, both as an Entreprenour and for some of the challenges he has undertaken. I’ve already got his Autobiography Losing My Virginity. Despite this I never knew associated him as a philanthropist or as a environmentalist, which it seams is exactly what he is. In his latest book “Screw Business [...]

I have already written a review of the Asus EeePad Tranformer tablets with Android which can installed with Android 3.2. It’s been a little frustrating waiting for the upgrade to the latest Android operating system 4.0 – known as Ice Cream Sandwich. It’s taken a little over two months to get the update, which isn’t [...]