Myself, Tim Richardson (@geeky_tim) and Jamie (from The Pi Hut) will be at Bett on Friday giving a talk and hands-on with the CamJam EduKits, the affordable electronics kits we developed together over the past year (you can see the second kit above). If you’re at Bett on Friday, we’ll be around, so let us know and we can get together for a coffee and a chat!
The team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been hard at work giving their learning resources a revamp. A new template has been designed and all the artwork is in the process of being converted to a much more child-friendly style (see above). The design is the brainchild of Sam, their in-house designer who is all-round nice chap.
They’ve also been expanding their selection of printed resources ahead of the Bett conference that’s happening in London this week:
… where they’re all sporting fancy lab coats to stand out on the Raspberry Pi stand:
Devon, at EsoLogic, has created a Raspberry Pi app which detects tweets to a specific account and then changes the colour of the light in a Massachusetts dorm room, thus making the window change a different colour. The account then tweets you back a picture to confirm it’s done it.I thought perhaps it wasn’t working, but sure enough I just got a tweet back! You can see it in action below and read a bit more and try it out here.
The folks at Joypad Bar (@joypadbar, joypadbar.co.uk) in London wanted to set-up a voting booth that allowed people to vote on which retro game would be played next. They got a Raspberry Pi and some huuuuuuge buttons and wrote some Python that would detect votes and keep a tally. You can see the results of their work and how they did it here.
Richard Hayler (who wrote an excellent blog post on generating 3D text inside Minecraft) has also written some code which will scroll text across a Unicorn HAT. Read his blog post about it here. You can buy a Unicorn HAT for around £24-25 from Pimoroni or from The Pi Hut.
