Helen Lynn has just posted a new blog article for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In the post, Helen highlights six women who are doing brilliant things in tech. They are: Cat Lamin, Sonia Uppal, Dr Lucy Rogers, Yasmin Bey, Sway Grantham and Fran Scott. I’m pleased to have met two-thirds of them personally – they are all brilliant. We should definitely celebrate women in tech and remember that it is still the case that young girls, especially, don’t always get the opportunities boys do. It’s a situation that has existed ever since technology first existed, and we should recognise the contributions women have made and will make in years to come in the hope that it will encourage more girls to embrace technology. Read the blog article here.
Create a binary clock with your Raspberry Pi and add-on board
Simon Monk has written a nice tutorial on creating a binary clock using the Pi and a Unicorn HAT or SenseHAT. It’s been published by the MagPi online and you can read it here.
Raspberry Pi Zero inside a SNES controller
James Poole decided to take an old SNES controller and cram a Raspberry Pi Zero inside it, creating a portable games console. Read how he did it here.
Covent Garden Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 23rd April – tickets available
Tickets for the 6th Covent Garden Raspberry Jam are now available on Eventbrite. The event runs from 2-4.30pm at the Dragon Hall Trust. Get your tickets here. I’m hoping to make this one!
Peterborough Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 9th April – tickets now on sale
Mike Mills, Hannah Mills (no relation) and Tony Warner are running a Raspberry Jam at University Campus Peterborough on Saturday, 9th April. The event will run from 10-4.30pm and will feature a mixture of talks, workshops, show and tell and a marketplace. I’ll be attending and giving a talk on the various HATs you can get for your Raspberry Pi and what you can do with them. (They’re also trying to persuade me and Tim to do an EduKit workshop – stay tuned!)
You can get tickets to the event here. They are £3.50 for adults and free for under 16s. I fully support the idea of charging a nominal amount for events such as these – it helps the Jam to get a bit of money to afford their own kit, and provides incentive for people to actually attend.
Beginner’s guide to installing Node.js on a Raspberry Pi
Dave Johnson from San Diego contacted me to share a guide he’s written on installing Node.js on the Pi. It takes you through first principles like writing the SD card and configuring the Pi before moving onto the Node.js installation itself. It’s a nicely written guide with lots of screenshots. Take a look at it here.