Good, well-balanced review of the pros and cons of the camera over at TweakTown. There’s also a giveaway for those of you with camera modules already – just take a picture with it and enter the draw for a free Pi case. Read the review/tutorial guide here
Great video from the Activate Summit in London. Clive Beale, the Foundation’s director of educational development, talks to the conference about the importance of encouraging young people to explore coding and programming. He uses the Pi as an example of a toolkit to promote technological exploration.
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on creating Conway’s Game of Life using Python and Pygame. This is a great idea for schools as it teaches children programming in general, algorithms, a little graphics and has a good, visual result.
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully his site will withstand the barrage of hits now headed his way).
He’s written a full tutorial on how to replicate his project and all the code has been released as open source so you can monitor your own pet!
I’m really hoping that schools pick this up to monitor classroom pets!
A few days ago, I featured Pimoroni’s PiGlow as a product to watch out for. This little £9 board gives you 18 independently-controlled LEDs and can fit inside a Pibow case. Pre-launch boards have now been sent out and Gordon Henderson (of WiringPi fame) has done a video of some demonstration scripts.
