In this episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, my guest is Amali de Alwis MBE, CEO of Code First: Girls, a programme that works with businesses and individuals to encourage more women in into a career in tech.
Author: Andrew at pi-top
The kids aren’t alright, so can we teach happiness?
Our children aren’t happy, but who’s to blame – technology, society, parents or teachers? More importantly, what can we do about it?
How drones help flightless birds
In the latest edition of our podcast, We Make The Future, we meet Dr Andrew Digby, who uses drone technology in his conservation work to save endangered birds.
pi-top goes retro
The team that plays together, stays together.
From code to cake! A recipe for ‘learning by making’ for younger children
In this essay, two of pi-top’s learning team explore how to bring social constructionism and learning by making to the under 12s.
Scratch and education
In the latest episode of our podcast, We Make The Future, we explore the world of Scratch visual programming.
Here’s Raspberry Pi CEO, Eben Upton, on the pi-top [4]
Eben Upton is the CEO and inventor of the Raspberry Pi, the computer that powers the pi-top family. So it was only fair that we gave him exclusive access to our latest product.
Our friends at Sphero are launching a rover
The recent news of the demise of Opportunity on Mars begs the question, how do we inspire the next generation of rover designers and makers?
Video: Dr Jessica Wade on science, making, education and gender
We’re big fans of Jess’ work, both the cool stuff she researches in her ‘day job’, and her mission to get more girls and young women into physics and material sciences.
pi-top [4] hero project: mini Mars rover
In this short series we speak to the designers and engineers who created our hero projects at Bett Show 2019, to find out how they built them and what problems they overcame.
