Ben Nuttall

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Cambridgeshire, UK

Ben is a software engineer for BBC News Labs, and formerly Raspberry Pi's Community Manager. He's into Linux, Python and all things open source! Follow Ben on Twitter @ben_nuttall.

Open Source Champion Readers Choice Award 2018 People's Choice Award Awesome Article Award 2016 Awesome Article Award 2017 Author Comment Gardener Linux Maker Open education Open hardware Python Community Manager Columnist Contributor Club

Authored Content

5 great Raspberry Pi projects for the classroom

1. Minecraft Pi Courtesy of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. CC BY-SA 4.0. More on Raspberry Pi What is Raspberry Pi? eBook: Guide to Raspberry Pi Getting started with Raspberry…

Raspberry Pi Zero: a $5 computer

Starting today, shops and newsagents are stocking a computer magazine called The MagPi, and as a world's first, this magazine comes with a free computer—literally stuck to the…

Exploring the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT

In my first article in my series, I wrote about the Astro Pi competition, an opportunity for UK school students to have their coded experiments run in space. We're getting…

Pi in the sky: High altitude ballooning with Raspberry Pi

Lots of people embed a Raspberry Pi into their projects—whether it's an arcade machine, a robot, a photo booth, or a weather station. You can develop your application with the…

Raspberry Jams bring Pi enthusiasts together

When the first Raspberry Pi came out in 2012, it was no surprise when people in the tech community started to organize events focused around using the device. Software…

Python and Raspberry Pi in education

We love Python at the Raspberry Pi Foundation—it's our go-to general purpose programming language for most projects and activities. Our home-brewed, Pi-optimized Linux…