Frank Carver has just posted up a brilliant Pi Wars video – it’s the story of TractorBot, made by Ipswich Makerspace. They eventually won Best Robot Under £75 and were the champions of the Obstacle Course. (You can view an…
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More CamJam EduKit 2 – Sensors coverage
Today at Pi Wars, we launched our second CamJam EduKit. This one comes with three sensors: temperature, movement and light; and all the bits and pieces you need to build circuits with them. Oh, that includes two mahoosive 10mm LEDs.…
Footage from the Covent Garden Raspberry Jam
Spencer, Mr UK Tech Reviews, has put together a video of the Covent Garden Raspberry Jam which was held on 29th November at Dragon Hall. It looks like a great venue and really well organised, so congratulations to Frank Thomas-Hockey who…
Raspberry Pi Foundation seeks help at Bett 2015
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just posted on their blog about The Bett Show. They are looking for help to populate their stall with experts and educators. Here’s who they are looking for: We are looking for members of our…
Birmingham Raspberry Jam takes off at KESH Academy
Spencer Organ and Jack Wearden have relaunched the Birmingham Raspberry Jam at KESH Academy. With 17 Raspberry Pis, they welcomed 45 attendees and had a whale of a time. Some more info and more pics are available on Spencer’s UK Tech Reviews…
CBBC Newsround looks at Sonic Pi on the Raspberry Pi
Jenny from CBBC’s Newsround has been talking to Sam Aaron and some of the kids at a Sonic Pi Live & Coding event. You can watch the piece on the CBBC website.
Hosting company runs Raspberry Pi workshops
Hosting company UKFast recently ran workshops for The Dean Trust Ashton-On-Mersey School in which the kids learned home automation concepts and used Minecraft Pi Edition to learn programming. You can hear a bit more about it from the people involved below:
Northern Ireland Raspberry Jams
In this brilliant guest post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog, Andrew Mulholland has described the activities occurring at the Jams he runs and shared some lovely quotes from his attendees. Read the post here.
Successful training for teachers at Raspberry Pi Picademy
Spencer Organ, better known on Twitter by his handle @Mruktechreviews, has posted up about his experience at Picademy this week. He describes everything about his time at Pi Towers, including the activities the teachers got up to, the training sessions, the…
Raspberry Pi enthusiast Andrew Mulholland wins TalkTalk prizes
On Tuesday, young Pi enthusiast and teacher-of-code Andrew Mulholland travelled to London to take part in the awards ceremony for the TalkTalk Digital Heroes 2014 in the House of Commons. As well as receiving the Next Generation prize, Andrew also walked…