If you’re in (or near) Germany, you can do a lot worse this weekend than going over to Berlin and dropping by the Maker Faire. There will be lots of tech exhibitors there and in amongst them will be James…
Category: Events
St Louis Raspberry Jam – 3rd October
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Maker Group in St. Louis is holding their second Raspberry Jam on Saturday, October 3, 2015 from 1-5pm. The event is free and is open to all ages, families, engineers, science and robot enthusiasts, and educators. During the event,…
South London Raspberry Jam – Autism and Tourette’s friendly – seeks funding
Grace Owolade-Coombes and her son Femi (who recently braved CamJam and did a talk about Festival of Code) are planning to hold a Raspberry Jam in South London on 17th October. This will be a very special Jam – it…
Remote-control lawnmower powered by a Raspberry Pi
A recent 24-hour StartFEST hackathon has awarded first prize to three brothers from Salt Lake City, Utah. Dan, Doug and David Leonard used a Raspberry Pi to control wheels connected to two drill motors that propelled a lawnmower across the garden. They…
Raspberry Pi space invaders comes to Cambridge Makespace
The workshops run by HackLab UK are among the newest additions to the Cambridge Raspberry Jam and have so far also proven to be the most popular and successful. This Saturday (26th), HackLab will be at the Cambridge Makespace at…
CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics for the Raspberry Pi announced
At the Cambridge Raspberry Jam on Saturday, myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut announced the third CamJam EduKit. This kit is all about robotics. You can catch the launch video below or skip it and read…
Watch a virtual CamJam – Raspberry Pi talk videos up on YouTube
Andy Batey has smashed his record at getting the recorded videos from Saturday’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam up on YouTube. They are now available on the CamJam channel and are prefixed “CamJam10”. There’s some great talks available: Concurrent programming with the Pi…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam tomorrow – come along or catch the live stream
The Cambridge Raspberry Jam is tomorrow at the Institute of Astronomy. Tickets are still available and you can get them here. If you’d like to turn up on the door, feel free and just pay when you get there. 16-and-unders are…
#PiWars proximity alert challenge inspires blog post
Brian Corteil is one of this year’s Pi Wars competitors. One of the more interesting challenges he, and the other teams, face is “Proximity Alert”. This challenge involves approaching a wall and stopping as close as possible to it without…
Skycademy write-up shows how exciting it was!
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…