Paul Weeks is pretty much obsessed with coffee. He decided that his local coffee shop could use face recognition technology and the FitBit API to work out a) what someone’s favourite coffee was and b) how strong it should be based on their activity. You can read how he did it and download the code from his blog.
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were available for purchase from the FiveNinjas store. You can read more on the blog. This is the first Compute Module Kickstarter product to start shipping.
The next Covent Garden Raspberry Jam will take place on Saturday, 25th April at the Dragon Hall Trust, 17 Stukeley Street WC2B 5LT, from 2-5pm. There will be two workshops: one on Minecraft Pi, the other on Sonic Pi as well as general hackery. Book your (free) tickets online here.
This year’s Raspberry Jamboree is next week at Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Preston, PR2 3SQ.
It is a three-day event in which people of all ages and all levels of experience come together and celebrate all things Pi.
The aim of this one day CPD event is to provide teachers with opportunities and resources to help them exploit the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi computer as well as considering pedagogical approaches to teaching Computing. Book here. (Very few tickets left – hurry!)
The aim of this Family Hack Jam event is to bring friends and families together to discover the fun, excitement and power of computer science, through an enjoyable, team-based problem-solving evening. Join up to 150 other children and adults from a range of ages and experience levels for an evening of family fun, competition and games. Please note that under 16s must be supervised by an adult. Book here.
The aim of the Raspberry Jamboree is to bring people together from across a wide area to discover the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi computer. Join up to 300 other children and adults from a range of ages, backgrounds and experience levels for lots of computing fun, talks, demonstrations and hands-on workshops. Book here.
This is a social event taking place at the Phantom Whinger in Broughton. Book here.
Join us for more fun and learning on the last day of the Jamboree. Book here.
Over on his blog, Eric is doing a great line in simple examples for controlling the GPIO pins of the Pi. This time, he covers PWM on the Pi by giving an example of an LED which changes brightness depending on a button press. Take a look here.
A blogger called Eric has written up a simple piece of code, and an accompanying Fritzing circuit diagram, of how to read a switch input and turn an LED on and off. It’s a simple example, but does show you how simply this kind of thing can be done. Read it here. Don’t worry if you’ve got a model B, by the way, you can just use different pins to do the same thing as on the B+/Pi 2.
