Richard Saville attended the 10th Egham Raspberry Jam and has done a great write-up of his experience there. This is well worth reading if you’ve never attended a Jam. The Egham event is very show-and-tell-y with projects being shared and chat being had over the course of three hours. Read the account here.
Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Scott Turner is organising the first Northamptonshire Raspberry Jam which will take place on 16th April. The event, which runs from 11am-3pm will take place in the Newton Building at the University of Northampton. Ticket numbers are limited as it’s the first Jam so get yours quick if you’d like to attend. No word yet on activities, talks, show-and-tell etc. It’s lovely to see the area get some Pi. 🙂
The Southend Raspberry Jam Team and Essex Libraries have teamed up to offer the second Chelmsford Raspberry Jam. It will take place on Saturday 13th February from 10am-5pm at Chelmsford Library. This one will feature talks, workshops and show-and-tell. They need lots of people to attend, and lots of people to help, so please be generous with your time if you can be! You can get tickets for this free event by registering here.
Szymon Kaliski has put together a Raspberry Pi, some buttons and potentiometers and a lot of circuitry to build a four-track audio looper. You can record four eight-second loops and then adjust their playback with the buttons and potentiometers to achieve the sound you want. It’s all highly technical, but he’s written up what he can and placed it and the code onto Github. See it in action below:
LoopPI from Szymon Kaliski on Vimeo.
This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an indicator/pointer. Really nice use of technology.
Read more here or watch a walk-through of the dashboard below:
Albert Hickey (@winkleink) got a Sense HAT for Christmas and wanted to create a game using it. What he came up with is Sense Cave. Sense Cave is a maze with 64 rooms (8×8) containing emeralds. Some of the exits/entrances to rooms are blocked off, some aren’t. It’s up to you to navigate through the maze and collect all the emeralds before finding the white dot that indicates the level exit. To control the player pixel, you tilt the Sense HAT and the built-in gyroscope kicks in, feeding data into the Pi to affect the player’s movement. It’s a great concept and Albert has got some great ideas for how he’s going to extend the game. You can read more about how he did it over on his blog. The code itself is available over on Github.
Albert was kind enough to let me have early-access to the code as I wanted a good Sense HAT demo to take to the Bett exhibition next weekend. It works really well and I have it running automatically on boot so all I need to do is plug in a battery and away we go!
