Why is the Raspberry Pi the world’s friendliest, handiest computer?

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Raspberry Pi? It’s a very small, inexpensive computer that was designed to get young people hacking and learning about computer hardware and programming languages again, like they used to in the ‘old days’ before user interfaces became super-slick and before jailbreaking was a crime. Apart … Continue reading

Raspberry Pi Courses and Workshops Announced

Great news - we have two 4-week courses for teens and a free one-hour workshop, which is open to everyone, in Sunset Community Centre’s spring flyer! See below for registration links. The workshop is to introduce the Raspberry Pi as a low cost, power- and space-efficient computing platform for anyone … Continue reading

MakerMobile collaborates with VIVO Media Arts!

MakerMobile was delighted when VIVO Media Arts asked us if we could help them teach their “Hacking the Home” Camp. This unusual and original week-long day camp for kids aged 13-18 took place at the beginning of August and revolved around the Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Simon of MakerMobile collaborated … Continue reading