Just seen this on the Foundation forum:
The next Exeter Raspberry Jam will take place in Exeter Central Library on 22nd March between 10:00 and 12:00. Lots of projects on display, help and guidance, tea, coffee and biscuits.
So, if you’re in the area, why not pop along?
Using a combination of the Pi and a waterproof temperature sensor (and some other bits), Laura Orsini has created a water temperature-sensing project to monitor her aquarium. She has kindly written a full tutorial on how to do it.
Ria, from LoveSouthend, has done a lovely write-up of her time at the first Southend Raspberry Jam. Judging by her reaction, and the reaction of everyone else there, it won’t be the last!
The Cambridge Science Festival runs from 10th-23rd March and is a great event for all the family. This year, there are several Pi-related events happening:
Read more about the Festival here or download the full programme here.
The Hour of Code is an initiative to give children a flavour of programming in a single hour, with the hope that they’ll continue their exploration afterwards. The Foundation have just released a set of tutorials and resources to support Hour of Code and, at the same time, have given a launch date of “end of March” for their education website launch.
I’m ever so glad that my assumption of “weeks rather than months” was correct – I’d rather hung my reputation on it in some quarters!
The choice of GitHub to store the majority of the resources is an interesting one and I hope it doesn’t put people off contributing. But, I guess it’s a fairly safe choice as a ‘sort-of’ CMS and as a code-storage device it can’t be beaten IMHO.
Take a look at these new resources now
There is also a blog post about how to contribute to these resource.
Just spotted this on Twitter. Matt Manning of Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has shot a video review of the Kano OS beta. He covers a lot of what the OS gives you and gives his very frank and honest opinion on the whole enterprise. I haven’t yet installed the beta (was busy writing the book review yesterday) but Matt has confirmed what I thought would probably be the case: that the project has some merit but has a habit of simplifying things which don’t need simplifying.
Have a watch of the video and tell Matt (or me!) what you think!
If you want to try Kano out for yourself, go to their download page
