The organisers of Pi Wars (aka Tim and I), the challenge-based robotics competition based in Cambridge, UK, have just announced that registration is now open for this year’s event. There are two application forms: The main competition – for those…
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Warwickshire Raspberry Jam gets underway for Raspberry Pi owners in the Midlands
Chris Penn has been working for a couple of months on starting up a Raspberry Jam in North Warwickshire. He has now announced that the first one will be held on Wednesday, 15th July. The event will run from 5-8.30pm…
Egham Raspberry Jam – next date announced and registration open
Albert Hickey has announced that the next Egham Jam will take place on Sunday 12th July at the Gartner HQ offices. Free tickets are available via Eventbrite. You can find out what happened at the January Jam here.
Skycademy – learn about High Altitude Ballooning with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation is running a two-and-a-half day free CPD session for teachers and anyone who works with youngsters (such as scout leaders etc) on the subject of High Altitude Ballooning. The event, which runs from 24th-26th of August, will enable…
Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams
Following the success of last year’s event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December…
Teachers get together to learn about coding in class at Coding Evenings
Cat Lamin, who is a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator (and all round nice person), has been holding “Coding Evenings” several times over the last six months in which teachers and experts get together to discuss and learn about coding in the classroom.…
Great write-up of the Cambridge Raspberry Jam
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV has written a brilliant blog post all about CamJam which took place on Saturday, 6th June. It covers everything that was going on in the Marketplace and Show-and-Tell. I’ll be writing up my experience of the day…
Cambridge Raspberry Jam – Live Streaming
If you are unable to make the Jam today, we are planning to live-stream the talks from the Lecture Theatre. Here’s the URL: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/ You can download the programme of talks from here: http://camjam.me/?page_id=802
Picademy comes home to Cambridge for July’s CPD course
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the next Picademy course, and it’s in Cambridge. As you can see from the graphic above, it takes place on 13th-14th July. Picademy is the brilliant concept that takes teachers through using the Raspberry Pi…
Ipswich Raspberry Jam scopes out venues and dates
Andy Proctor (he of the Raspberry Pi Truck) is looking for venues and checking dates for an upcoming Ipswich Raspberry Jam. He has set-up a Facebook group for the Jam so if you’d like to keep informed, or want to get…