Spencer Organ has been experimenting with a PiTFT touch screen and programming a user interface with PyGame. He’s now documented the process he went through to create an Internet radio player and shared his code. You can read more about it and download the code here. You can see it in action below:
Dominique Laloux and his team, together with some great funding from various sources, have created what the Raspberry Pi Foundation believes to be the first Raspberry Pi computer room in Togo. For more on this great story, head over to the Foundation’s blog.
On Saturday, I attended the Southend Raspberry Jam. It was great fun and it was nice to meet new people as well as bump into some familiar faces. The guys at Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group did a great job of organising all the talks and the central room where there was lots of show-and-tell. Nice to see a good amount of youngsters getting stuck in with Minecraft and especially Sonic Pi v2.
I attended a few of the talks, some of which were Pi-related, some of which were more to do with microcontrollers, and then embarked on some show-and-tell of my own. This was my table:
You can see lots of things here – my Picorder is in the middle (I really ought to do a proper case for it now it’s finished!), Zach Igielman’s PiPiano board (it’s the one with all the red buttons – coming soon to Kickstarter), a few RasPiO boards and, of course, Ryan Walmsley’s TurtlTeck (which is a standalone robotics product currently running on Kickstarter).
I think my Project of the Jam was Peter Onion‘s huge LED matrix display. 4 LED matrices all connected together (and to the Pi) and at one stage running an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, written in C. (Wish I’d got a video! I couldn’t stop watching it!).
Photo courtesy of The Average Man
For a pictorial guide to the Southend Jam, check out the Average Man’s blog post about the event.
Ben is currently working his way across the US stopping off at schools and hackspaces as he goes. One of his most recent stops was at St John Vianney High School. You can see him talking to a classroom of schoolkids below:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has developed a 9-node supercomputer with Raspberry Pis, and have documented their efforts in a series of repositories on GitHub. Read a bit more on the Popular Science website here and take a look a GitHub here.
Teach Secondary have announced their Technology & Innovation Awards. “The brand new awards are specifically focused on technology and innovation in the classroom and recognise products and resources as well as teachers, authors and bloggers”. Amongst the winners was Carrie Anne Philbin, who was awarded Best Author for her book Adventures in Raspberry Pi. Congratulations Carrie Anne!
