Art, Photography, Wearable

Surveillance jacket controlled by Raspberry Pi

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South Korean artists Shin Seung Back and Kim Yung Hun, together with costume designer Jehee Sheen, have created a jacket embedded with dozens of cameras which can be used to capture a 360-degree picture of the wearer’s environment. At the touch of a button, all the pictures are taken, stitched together into a panorama and then uploaded to the web. Details of how this is put together aren’t available, but we do know that a Raspberry Pi is used to collate the images and upload them. Known as the “Aposematic Jacket”, this is just an art project at the moment! You can see a video of the jacket in action below. You can also visit the artists’ blog to see more photographs of the jacket.

Education, Events, Outreach, Raspberry Jams

Jam Packed – a new initiative from Raspberry Jam founder Alan O’Donohoe

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Alan O’Donohoe, who (along with Ben Nuttall) started off the whole Raspberry Jam initiative, has started up a new ‘thing’ and called it “Jam Packed“. It is a two-day community computing event aimed at schools and families comprising a “Hack to the Future” event, a Hackathon and a Raspberry Jam. He is currently looking to expand Jam Packed to the North of England and Scotland and has some dates available to start discussions off. The events are run free-of-charge to the host venue. If you’d like to read more, or you have in mind a venue that you think would benefit, please visit Alan’s blog for more details!

Art, Audio, Silliness

Spooky Raspberry Pi Halloween happenings in the Lost Gardens of Heligan

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Phil Atkin met Stuart Pemberton a few weeks ago at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall. They realised they were both fans of the Raspberry Pi and Stuart revealed a project that he’d been tasked to do: create a visitor attraction with the Raspberry Pi for the upcoming Halloween event. Well, Stuart has now finished the project and it’s on display in the Gardens. It detects passers-by and emits a sound effect. It originally made the sound of an owl, but it was too successful and was attracting real animals in search of a mate! So, now it makes the sound of wolf when people walk past. Read more on Phil’s blog or watch the video of it in action below:

Operating systems, Software

Firefox OS for the Raspberry Pi gains momentum

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Thanks to The Register for the meat of this one, and to Tim Richardson who spotted it!

During a Mozilla Festival held over this last weekend, developers showed more of the Firefox OS port for the Pi. They also listed some of the objectives of the project:

  • Be at parity with Raspbian/RPi as a hobbyist environment. Users will be able to read from sensors and control motors, LEDs, solenoids, slave boards, etc. A modified Fx OS for Raspberry Pi will be able to fly a drone;
  • Be competitive with other media player OSes available for Rpi;
  • Be competitive with other IDEs for FxOS on Raspberry Pi targeted at beginning programmers, like IDLE and Scratch;
  • Enable programmers (via DOM/CSS) to develop robotics etc. by building a declarative model of a reactive system. With one type of output device, the actual electronics could be interfaced with. With another type of output device, the model could be simulated on a client computer.

Read more at The Register.