Cat Lamin is holding another one of her wonderful Coding Evenings in Twickenham on 24th March. The event takes place at Stokes and Moncreiff on Richmond Road from 6.30-9.30pm. Coding Evenings are aimed at both teachers and community members and seek to join…
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First Kendal Raspberry Jam – 25th March
The first Kendal Raspberry Jam will take place on 25th March from 10am-12.30pm. The event, which is a general Jam in which people with (and without!) Pis can get together and share knowledge, ask questions and get help with problems,…
Formula Pi laser timing rig using a Raspberry Pi – find out how it was done
Recently, robotics designer, manufacturer and retailer Pi Borg ran the first Formula Pi competition. For the competition, the used a laser timing rig to record the exact lap times of each robot. They also used a similar method at Pi…
Barcelona Raspberry Jam – 11th March
Ferran Fàbregas is organising the third Barcelona Raspberry Jam on Saturday, 11th March. The event runs from 10am-6pm and takes place at Soko Tech. Tickets are free, although there is an option to pay for a 3-hour arcade games controller…
pi-top Champions Raspberry Pi workshops at the National Museum of Computing, Milton Keynes – 19th February
Recently, pi-top announced the Champions scheme in which certain individuals and teams were provided with a set of pi-top Ceeds to be used at events and workshops. Well, on Sunday, 19th February, several of us will be involved in giving workshops…
Leeds Raspberry Jam – 1st February
Claire Garside is organising another Leeds Raspberry Jam on Wednesday, 1st February. The event runs from 6-8pm and you can get tickets, and see the timetable, here.
Raspberry Pi goes to Scout camp
I’ve just been reading about Ben Nuttall’s adventures at Wintercamp, a Scouts activity camp run at Gilwell Park in Chingford, UK. He was there, along with a set of Pi-Top Ceeds, to run activities described as “a gentle introduction to…
Stafford Raspberry Jam and Code Club Mashup – 16th February
Code Club UK and Stafford Raspberry Jam are teaming up for an event on 16th February. The Thursday night event, which is being held at Stafford Library, runs from 6-8pm. It’s a chance to get involved with programming, making and…
West York Raspberry Jam – 13th February
Anne Carlill is organising the first West York Raspberry Jam on Monday, 13th February. The event, which runs from 5.15-7.15pm will take place at the Acomb Explore Library in York. Adults can bring up to two children. If you’d like to…
French car manufacturer’s open source car uses two Raspberry Pis
French car manufacturer Renault are to launch an open source car platform called POM (based on Twizy), it was announced at CES last week. What seems to have slipped under the radar is that there are two Raspberry Pis on…