In support of “Hour of Code” as part of Computer Science Education Week, the Foundation is giving away 2000 Google Pis to schools and individual kids. This is a competition and involves a) running an Hour of Code workshop before the end of term and b) designing a My Pi Project poster.
Martin O’Hanlon, who normally can be found messing around with Minecraft Pi, has written some software to aid you in ripping CDs in an automated way.
The team at PiFace Digital created a rig of 48 Pis, complete with camera modules and PiFace boards, put them into a circle and created the Frozen Pi – a bullet time photographic system. The Pis are triggered at the same time to take a photograph and the pics are then stitched together so that it appears that the subject of the photograph is frozen in place while the camera spins round them. Great project – used an awful lot of cable!
And we’re back… After the Cambridge Raspberry Jam I’m just quickly posting this. Look out for a full CamJam post later on this week.
Sam has hooked his Pi and an Arduino up to his Christmas lights and train set and has opened up access to control it to the entire world. This is great fun and I urge you to give it a try!
Control the lights and train set
If you’re interested in this kind of thing, the internet of things and home automation, check out Charlotte Godley’s post about using the Pi and SpaceBrew to control a strip of LEDs.
Good morning everyone.
We begin streaming live from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam (aka CamJam) today at about 1pm. Here’s the URL:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/
Linked from that page is the URL to use from mobile devices.
Feel free to tweet us using the hashtags #rjam and #camjam.
Hopefully it will all go without a hitch and you’ll be able to join us virtually.
Here’s the programme of events:
1pm – Introduction (Michael Horne & Tim Richardson)
1.10pm – Keynote: Journeying with the Pi (Matthew Timmons-Brown)
1.25pm – Ciseco Lightning Talk
1.30pm – Cyntech/Pimoroni Lightning Talk (including HDMIPi)
1.45pm – NOOBS and operating systems (Gordon Hollingworth)
2.15pm – Pi Hut Lightning Talk
2.25pm – Break
3.15pm – Sonic Pi (Carrie Anne Philbin)
3.50pm – The Ryanteck Motor Controller Board (Ryan Walmsley)
4.10pm – Break
4.55pm – Pico Piduino & Microcontrollers (Phil Howard)
5.25pm – Open Panel Session – The Future of Cam Jam
I hope everything goes swimmingly. Please bear with us if we have some technical issues 🙂
Enjoy the Jam!
Mike & Tim
Due to transportation problems, we’ve just lost a party of 17 who were coming from Kings Lynn to the Jam this Saturday. That means that there are some tickets available. If you’re free and would like to come, please contact me either through the blog or via email mike@recantha.co.uk
This is on a first-come, first-served basis so when the tickets are gone, they’re gone! In fact, they’re already going so move fast!
