Albert Hickey is organising the 14th Egham Raspberry Jam on Sunday, 30th April. Taking place at Gartner HQ in Staines-upon-Thames, the event is primarily for Show-and-Tell and discussion and runs from 2-5pm. You can get free tickets for the event here.
Packt Publishing is always offering free e-books and today is great if you want to learn about image processing. You will use the OpenCV library with Python with today’s book. Here is the book blurb:
OpenCV is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library that provides a common infrastructure for computer vision applications. Today’s free eBook has practical, project-based tutorials for Python developers and hobbyists who want to get started with computer vision with the OpenCV library and Python. If you have always wanted to learn which version of the Python bindings for OpenCV to use, how to integrate with cross-platform Kinect drivers, and how to efficiently process image data with NumPy and SciPy, then this book is for you!
All you need to do is sign up on the Packt website. Start here to claim your free e-book.
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great tutorial that shows you how to set-up your Raspberry Pi with the motionEyeOS operating system. It lets you create yourself a CCTV camera that works over IP on your network. He’s used the ZeroView mount from The Pi Hut to stick it to a window and then installed the software. He’s even documented some of the software preferences he uses to get the best results. Take a look at the tutorial here.
Mark Hughes has written an excellent, comprehensive tutorial for using FlightAware with a Zero W to track overhead flights. Obviously, it will work with any other Raspberry Pi, but the Zero W is a ‘cheap one’. He covers everything from getting the SD card image working to installing the software and then displaying stuff onto an LED matrix. It’s really well done and you can take a look here or view the video of it in action below:
At Pi Wars, Coretec‘s Brian Corteil showed off his new robotics kit – the Tiny 4WD – on the Obstacle Course. Here’s a video of it in action:
You can now get hold of a kit for this lovely little robot from Pimoroni’s online store. Here is the list of contents:
You just need a Pi (preferably a Pi Zero W), an SD card and a power source to complete it.
The kit is available for £55 and you can get hold of it here.
See MagPi Issue #51 and #52 for construction and expansion tips.
Brian entering the Pi robotics arena is great news – he brings a “maker sensibility” to this crowded market and teaming up with Pimoroni for fulfilment is a master stroke. Brian is well-known in Pi circles for his maker projects and for bringing Micro Pi Noon to the masses so you can be sure of the quality of the kit and his expertise. And let’s not forget: he’s won his category in Pi Wars for the past two years – this man knows his robots!
Norwich is having a Raspberry Jam on Saturday, 27th May. The event, which runs from 10.30am-5pm is being held at OPEN on Bank Plain. There will be plenty of activities including talks and workshops as well as some show and tell and vendors selling bits and pieces. It looks to be a very big deal for those in the Eastern region, and it should be interesting to see how they get on with attracting people from the area. I’m planning to attend and run a workshop – just waiting to hear back from the organisers! Show and Tellers/Vendors should fill in this form with more information. Parking at the venue isn’t possible but there are plenty of nearby car parks that you can use.
You can get free tickets to the event here.
