Matt Hawkins has written a tutorial based on Kenny Svalgaard’s Single File PHP Gallery script. You run a web server and PHP and then put the script into a folder containing your images. All you have to do is have your Pi Camera output images to that folder and Bob’s your Uncle you have a live image gallery. Read more here.
Saturday 14th June – The Rising Sun, Potton, Bedfordshire – 12.30-6pm
Fancy doing some Raspberry Pi stuff in a relaxed, social atmosphere? Fancy having a nice meal in a nice family pub? Fancy a chat with fellow geeky-type people? Then the “Potton Pi & Pints Raspberry Jam Doughnut” is for you.
This is a strictly informal event from the same team that brings you the Cambridge Raspberry Jam.
You can read about the first Potton Pi & Pints here – we had a great time!
We’re not planning any talks or anything else, this will be a purely bring-stuff-along-and-hack-it type thing.
The event is being held in Potton, a small town on the Bedfordshire/Cambridgeshire border, at The Rising Sun, a family-friendly, dog-friendly pub. The Rising Sun is a CAMRA-accredited local pub that regularly has 7 real ales, real cider and all the usual beverages. Food is available all day and is of the pub-grub variety: generously-portioned and reasonably priced. You can read more about The Rising Sun on their website.
We’ve arranged to use the upstairs function room (part of which is pictured below) which has tables and chairs and plenty of space for your projects or just for talking if that’s all you want to do.
This event will be a real social for Pi enthusiasts and we’re hoping it will be nice and relaxed with none of the stress and frantic nature of the usual CamJam. Kick back, unwind and do stuff with your Pi.
We’ll be supplying a few Raspberry Pis, monitors, keyboards, mice, cables and power sockets so all you have to do is come along. But please feel free to bring your own Pi, your SD card and whatever other electronic wizardry/gadgetry you happen to have.
We’ll have some of our worksheets available, including Minecraft Pi Edition, so there’ll be some activities for kids available.
At the end of the Jam (6-7pm-ish), we’ll be packing up and re-arranging the room so that we can order food and eat/drink/talk to our hearts’ content.
Any questions can, as usual, be addressed to Tim Richardson (tim@potton.me.uk) and Michael Horne (mike@recantha.co.uk).
Scott Garner has created two sculptures that react to their environment and then produce sounds based on the input. In his own words:
For several years I’ve imagined a sculpture with a massive array of different sensors that processes the incoming data and then generates an abstract representation of it. In other words, a machine that simply observes the world with no use or function beyond that. This led to a series of explorations based on sensing and interpreting the world and finally to the two sculptures displayed here.
You can read more information about the build and listen to generated sound samples here.
ThisOldGeek has taken a large Peets Coffee tin and filled it with electronics to create a boom box audio system. He’s used a Vacuum Fluorescent Display inside it to display what is currently being played and a USB sound card and amplifier to boost the sound output of the Pi. You can read more about how he did it over on his blog.
A team of students at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte have been working with a Raspberry Pi in their recycling initiative. They have created a three-and-a-half feet tall robot (called RecycleBot… I would have called it ‘Bob’) that patrols their football stadium and contains two bins – one for recycling, the other for compost. It has an ultrasonic sensor fitted to prevent collisions! You can read and hear more about their project over on WFAE.org.
Richard Wilson at Electronics Weekly has done a nice interview with the Foundation’s Eben Upton about the new Compute Module and how they expect it to be used. Read the interview here.
