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Recent Posts

First Look at Raspberry Pi Pico

published on June 20, 2021

The Pico is a brand new microcontroller from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It is based on the RP2040 chip developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation here within the UK.

Digital Skills Shortage

published on June 19, 2021

Many of you probably seen the BBC News article about the digital skills shortage that was published yesterday. This is something close to our hearts at RaspiKidd and micro:mag. A lot of things mentioned in the article is why we do what we do at RaspiKidd and micro:mag People going off to study digital courses at uni whether this is Software development, engineering or other IT-related courses and finding the materials to be outdated. Read More...

2020 Roundup

published on June 08, 2021

What a year we have all had!

Here at RaspiKidd it’s been a real rollercoaster. Started in January with running a 2-day robotics workshop within the V&A Dundee to then supporting a group of high school children develop their idea within the school’s design jam again within the V&A Dundee. At this point, I was also in talks with various people and organisations on running more activities throughout the year. Well, low and behold the world as we knew it then changed in March with the whole world pretty much going into lockdown due to Covid19 no more face to face meetings or workshops.