While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

Raspberry Pi's Raspbian gets new features: File manager, Thonny Python IDE updates The Raspbian OS gets file manager improvements and support for the Linux Orca accessibility app.

Computer maker Raspberry Pi has launched a new introductory course to help young coders get to grips with the Python programming language.