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    Upcoming Raspberry Pi Family Coding Day Project

    I’ve had a lot of people email and message me asking me what I’m doing with the Raspberry Pi and I wanted to share before the actual RMOUG Quarterly Education Workshop, (QEW) this Friday at Elitches. So a little history-  When I was a kid, I was a real handful.  My mother used to come into my room and I’d have created “webs” out of yarn strung from every piece of furniture and twisted into patterns.  I used to take apart radios and use the parts to create new toys, figuring out how the electronics worked.  Dolls suddenly became cyborgs…

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    Raspberry Pi 2 Shopping List

    I recently upgraded from the first edition Raspberry Pi to the new and improved Raspberry Pi 2 in a bundle Cana kit.  The Raspberry Pi 2 has a 900MHZ quad-core Arm Cortex A7, (ARMv7 processor instruction set) with 1Gb of memory, GPU is a 250MHZ Broadcom VideoCore IV, 1080p 30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high profile decoder and encoder on the graphics and includes four USB ports, a micro SD, HDMI, micro USB power supply and a 15-pin MIPI camera interface.  I like that the kid included a number of accessories, including an 8GB Micro USB card, the USB Wifi, 3.5 mm…