Darren’s always quick-off-the-mark with writing up his experiences at Jams. This time is no exception as he started blogging at the Jam itself. Lots of pics here as well as opinion on the various presentations during Focus on Education. Read it here.
The Average Man has begun a series of posts in which he will build a seven-segment temperature display for the Pi. To start with he’s building it on a breadboard but eventually it will be a removal package based on a prototyping board. Looks like an excellent project that you can follow along with by reading his blog.
We will be live streaming from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam at the Institute of Astronomy today.
A timetable and details of how to view the live stream can be found on the CamJam website at: http://camjam.me
The sessions will be recorded and will be made available online over the next couple of weeks.
I hope that some of you can make it!
Eric over at Low Voltage Labs has created a business card which features a handy cut-out version of their GPIO reference keyring. You can download the PDF and print it out on card (or even paper). Very handy! Read more here.
Matt Manning has published another one of his excellent Pi-related videos. This time he covers setting up the Gertduino add-on board and getting it to control the tricky, but trusty, NeoPixel. Watch the video here.
A team of computer science students from BITS Pilani‘s Goa campus, led by Sanskriti Dawle and Aman Srivastava, wanted to help visually impaired people in India by teaching them Braille. However, most Braille teaching machines cost in excess of £4000. So, they set about creating something that would solve the problem but at a fraction of the price. They took a Raspberry Pi and wrote some Python script which reads in speech, interprets it into text and then produces the Braille pattern of each letter on a set of 6 pegs that push up or pull down as necessary. The system is called Project Mudra and you can read more about it here. The system costs about £150 per unit – an amazing saving for something which does the job of the more expensive units almost as well.
This is a truly jaw-dropping project that really shows what the Pi can do to help developing countries.
