Albert Hickey is running another Jam at the Gartner HQ in Egham on 26th April from 2-5pm. This Jam will feature opportunities to try out Sonic Pi and Minecraft Pi Edition. You can read about a previous Egham Jam here. Book tickets to the Jam here.
The Raspberry Model C
This was a fun April-Fools joke we did for 2015. The full text of the post is archived here.
We hope everyone enjoyed the joke and that great fun was had finding all the ‘Easter Eggs’ on the photo.
Basic deep learning and image recognition with the Raspberry Pi
David Walz has blogged about using the DeepBeliefSDK to identify the contents of an image. DeepBelief takes an image and evaluates it with a neural network model in order make a conclusion as to what is in the image. Read more about it here.
Raspberry Pi voice translator via Google and Microsoft
Wolf Paulus has taken his work on speech recognition further and has hooked up the recognition text received from Google Translate to the free Microsoft Azure translation service. He now has a Pi-powered voice translator! Read about it and watch a video of it in action here.
Using the PiStop with Scratch on the Raspberry Pi
Teacher Cat Lamin has written up a quick sort-of review of the brilliant PiStop from 4tronix. This simple little GPIO plug in board gives you access to some traffic light LEDs that you then program using your favourite language on the Pi. Cat’s class have used ScratchGPIO and she’s blogged about how to do that as well as give her overall impressions of the device. Well worth reading if you want a cheap, simple way of getting into GPIO programming. Read it here. You can buy a PiStop from 4tronix.
Vote for Raspberry Pi in the Inquirer Tech Hero Awards
The Inquirer has unveiled the shortlist for its first Tech Hero Awards, aimed at celebrating the best business IT products and people across the industry. The awards cover software and hardware products, along with innovation, events and people working in IT departments and at technology vendors.
Raspberry Pi fans have interest in three categories. The Raspberry Pi 2 is nominated in both Best Developer Tool and Best Product and Eben Upton has been nominated in the Tech Champion category.
Competition is sure to be fierce so head on over to The Inquirer now and cast your votes!