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Eating a slice of the next PI (Raspberry PI3)
Following on from my last blog post on the Raspberry PI 3, the PI 3 has been released with for sale at around $35. A number of retailers have already sold out of the PI 3 already. These have mainly been those selling bundles including the PI 3. I have gone for just the PI…
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Early view of the Raspberry Pi3
The Register has an article on the new Raspberry Pi3 which is currently going through FCC testing and certification. The Pi 3 Model B otherwise looks pretty much like 2015’s quad-core 32-bit ARM Cortex-A7-based Raspberry Pi 2: it sports a familiar Broadcom system-on-chip, HDMI port, SD card slot, wired Ethernet socket, and 40 general-purpose IO pins, all…
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Self Driving Office Furniture
Watching the news this evening an interesting article was shown. Long ago when I was at school at the end of the day we had to tidy the classroom and put the chairs onto our desks. What if the chairs could do this themselves? well put themselves under the desk in a tidy fashion at…
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Programming Nostalgia – Back to the 1980’s
As part of the update to the Usborne’s coding books for today’s kids releasing two new books: Lift-the-flap computers and coding Coding for beginners using Scratch Usborne have released some of their 1980 computer books as PDF’s that can be downloaded for personal use. The released titles include: Introductions to Programming Programming Tricks and Skills…
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PI Zero Stock & Project Competition
Since its launch the Raspberry PI Zero seems to be in high demand with its low price of under £5.00 for the base module. The official suppliers are still out of stock with no view as to when they may receive their next shipment. They fly out as soon as they come in This makes…
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Are you rethinking your Java Plugin’s
Oracle have recently announced via a blog post that they are going to deprecate the Java browser plug in JDK9 and remove it from future releases. By late 2015, many browser vendors have either removed or announced timelines for the removal of standards based plugin support, eliminating the ability to embed Flash, Silverlight, Java and…
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Easier Markdown with GitHub
Its good to see that GitHub has now provided a toolbar to aid in formatting Markdown. This will help some users from using HTML code format to a word processor GUI type experience. It should appeal to those who are starting out on their coding journey or want an easier life not having to remember if they…
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Digital Scouting
There have been a series of new badges introduced by the Scouting movement. Two of these replace the traditional IT Staged Badge with a Digital Citizen and Digital Maker staged badge. These are aimed at giving young people skills in the digital age and help with STEM education. These badges also teach young people to…
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P4ssw0rd5! – Is yours really secure?
Like them or hate them, passwords are one of the regular occurrences in our everyday lives. We use them on an almost daily basis and have so many for each of the systems/web services we use. How many people have the same password across two or more of these systems/web services. SplashData have released their…
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Max Hemingway 