Microsoft Teams on Raspberry Pi: coming soon?!

 

During the "new normal" the education will be virtual, as it is for the most of white collar workers. Kids go to use their Tablets, Laptops and Smartphones to connect with their teachers and classmates using teams. For my kids this is a permanent switch between the Mac and the iPad. Depending on their class and the battery level :)

Since there are some interesting STEM classes, where the kids use a Raspberry Pi as Desktop PC. My Idea here is to use a Pi, stream the Video out to the TV and use a camera and BT Headsets - and run Teams on the Pi. Unfortunately there is no existing ARM Linux package from Microsoft. Every approach with an x86 emulator failed.

There is a Teams Linux ARM Repo from Microsoft but it does not have to much content.

While googling for a solution I realized that there is a punch of lads looking form ARM64 based Teams - unfortunately mostly for Windows on ARM. And it seems their voice is heard by the Tech Giant Microsoft. According to their uservoice forum for Team, a Microsoft Engineer gave some hope that there will be a Window on ARM Teams package.

Microsoft's user voice forum

I am full of hope, that this development will also bring us a Linux ARM64 Teams package. There are more request for Linux packages than for WoA. So... what do you think? Will 2020 bring us a ARM Teams on Linux?

Back to School means back to Raspberry blog!

Soon the new school year will start and I have spent the last few days working on the kids' curriculum. What can I say, I am really jealous and would like to be 8 years old again myself. Besides the normal subjects there are several STEM courses where programming, robotics and design thinking spark curiosity and creativity. I think it's great that the focus is on integrating boys and girls equally into the STEM topics. I am especially pleased that a central part of the STEM courses is based on the Raspberry PI. 

Minecraft Coding Camp by kjarrett  (CC BY 2.0)

This is reason enough to reactivate this blog and document the projects of the kids here. In the last time of the blog it was very quiet here. That will change now, but I think there will be some topics that are broader than pure Raspberry Pi stuff from the past!

Topics for the next weeks will be:

• Raspberry Pi Laptop
• Raspberry Pi Robot
• Raspberry Pi Minecraft (or other gaming)
• other stuff for sure

I am not sure if i have enough Raspberries here but anyway we need some displays, cameras, cases, and lot of other cool stuff. Guess someone will be on a shopping spree next days!