Open-source board maker BeagleBoard.org has introduced a bare-bones PC starting at $45, bringing it closer to the popular Raspberry Pi, which offers basic models for $25 and $35. The $45 BeagleBoard Black has no casing and comes in the ...
Texas Instruments has announced a $45 computer based around a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor, and aimed at the 'maker' market. Called BeagleBone Black, it is half the price and has more performance than the original credit card sized ...
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The government has launched a "technical baccalaureate" designed to represent a "mark of achievement" for school-leavers to show employers. Announced by education secretary Michael Gove and skills minister Matthew Hancock, the ...
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The U.S. distributor of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer quickly exhausted its limited supply of the devices Monday. Allied Electronics, which distributes the single-board computer in the United States, has posted a'no more' noticeat its ...
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Raspberry Pi is to be sold in China and the Asia Pacific region following RS Components' signing of a global distribution agreement with The Raspberry Pi Foundation to sell Raspberry Pis around the world. The global distribution deal is ...
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Element14 has moved all production of the Raspberry Pi low cost computer platform to the UK, to meet growing demand, says the distributor. Last year it was announced that Raspberry Pis would be manufactured by Sony UK Technology Centre in ...
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Nine teams of science, maths and engineering students from the University of Cambridge took part last week in a Student Robot Challenge hosted by MathWorks. This is another example of an industry-backed initiative to encourage more ...
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PA Consulting and Raspberry Pi have selected the finalists of their programming challenge who will present their ideas to six expert judges on 20 March. The competition was intended for school and university students to present ...
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Google has released another promotional video for its widely-anticipated Glass project – the wearable device which takes the form of a pair of translucent spectacles that appear to enrich the user's experience of the world around ...
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The Next Gen Skills campaign for the introduction of computer programming in schools has announced the appointment of a Next Gen Talent Development Co-ordinator to help implement the scheme's recommendations. Kim Blake, education liaison ...
Game-like computer programmes dumb down the usefulness of interactive IT-based education, according to veteran television presenter Johnny Ball. Speaking to Computing at last week's BETT show in London, Ball said the use of gaming ...
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A new Department for Education (DfE) report entitled The National Curriculum in England Framework offers more details of the coalition's plans to improve the teaching of computing, but provides no formal backing for Education Secretary ...
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The Duke of York and processor firm ARM have put their shoulders behind Code Club, a nationwide volunteer project to teach programming to 9-11 year-olds in after-school clubs. Thought up by computer scientist Linda Sandvik and user ...
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Google's donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers and last week's decision by Education Secretary Michael Gove to add computer science to the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) are a mere "diversion" from the UK's real problems in IT education, ...
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A slimmed down version of the Raspberry Pi has been introduced with around half the power consumption and a lower price tag that tht original board. The new Model A version of the embedded computing platform has only 256MB of RAM included ...