The Foundation announced on Friday the launch of a competition for schools where they use Sonic Pi v2 to create original pieces of space-themed music. The deadline for entries is 13th October and the finalists will take part in the final part of the competition in Cambridge on 4th November. You can read more over on the Foundation’s blog.
Here’s some info about live streaming from the Cambridge Raspberry Jam which is happening today. You can also still get tickets on the door, more details below.
We hope to be live streaming the talks in the Lecture Theatre.
The live streaming web page can be found at:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/ioa/streaming/
The programme for the day can be found here:
http://camjam.me/camjam/wp-content/uplo … gramme.pdf
As always, your mileage may vary – it’s still experimental and you may get drop-outs, but we hope you’ll be able to join us virtually from 12pm
If you decide you want to come to CamJam at a moment’s notice, you can still get tickets on the door at the Institute of Astronomy. Doors open at 11am, the first talk is at 12pm. We expect to finish between 5pm and 6pm. Tickets are £2.50 for adults and free for those aged 16 and under.
At the Nato summit in Newport, Wales, world leaders have been presented with a goody basket of all things Welsh. One of those things is, of course, a Raspberry Pi which is made at Sony’s Pencoed factory. The BBC has the full story.
As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, I’m a big fan of the Average Man – he writes great content and is just an all-round nice bloke. Russell from RasPi.Today has interviewed him for the latest podcast and you can listen to it here.
It must be Neopixel day or something.
In this tutorial, Josh teaches us how to light up a single Neopixel using the Raspberry Pi’s UART TX pin and a piece of software called “neouart”. Read the tutorial here if you’d like to do this!
Here’s what could be a game-changer in the land of blinkies. Tony from North-West USA has taken the work of an Adafruit forum user, adapted it slightly and is now driving Neopixels natively from the Pi. It uses the Raspberry Pi’s PWM pin (number 18) and a non-inverted hex buffer chip. He’s the first person in the hangout to present and it starts around 0:37.
