Just a quick shout-out to the Royston Crow who have featured Amaideo Page-John (aka Crazy Squeak) and his programming work that has been launched into space with Tim Peake. The 10-year old, from Royston, was one of the lucky entrants in the Astro Pi competition which sees code written by children being run on two Astro Pi units in orbit about the International Space Station. Read the Crow article here. You can follow Crazy Squeak’s blog here.
Gus over at pimylifeup.com has had lots of requests for a Windows 10 IoT tutorial, especially about how to set it up and use it. Well, he’s now written a tutorial specifically for that purpose and you can read it here.
Giles Booth has attached a SenseHAT to his Raspberry Pi and then written some simple Python script to generate a spirit level on the SenseHAT’s matrix display. Some great work here showing the flexibility of this fantastic little Pi accessory. Read how to do it here.
Mikronauts have written an extremely detailed, very balanced review of the Raspberry Pi Zero. Well worth a read if you’re dithering about whether to get one or not. Read it here.
Preston Raspberry Jam has been going for ages and they have just announced their dates for the whole of next year. The Jams always occur on the first Monday of the month, with the first one on Monday, 4th January (Book here). They will all take place at the Media Innovation Studio on Kirkham Street in Preston and run from 6-9pm. You can see a full list of the Jams here.
Gordon loves baking and he wanted to remotely access and control the temperature. So, he took a Raspberry Pi model A+, an Adafruit HAT-sized prototyping board and some thermocouples and hooked it all up to his oven. You can read the full story over on his blog.
