David Briddock continues his excellent long-running series on learning Python by introducing PyGame in a broad overview.
Now Google funds Irish #RaspberryPi schools scheme
Google will provide 1.5 million Euros of investment in a partnership with Trinity College Dublin to promote computer coding skills in second-level schools. More than 1,000 Pis will be given to students and teachers.
Irish Minister for Education and Skills Ruairi Quinn said:
“Interventions such as this are most effective when they are consistent with national policy and I look forward to the project leaders liaising with my Department and the Teaching Council in this regard.”
John Herlihy, head of Google Ireland says that:
Dublin is rightly known as the digital capital of Europe. If we are to maintain that position, computer science skills will become even more critical as companies create new business models through the cloud and the web,” said John Herlihy, head of Google in Ireland.
Google UK previously announced funding for 10,000 Pis for UK education. Read about that here.
Reading RFID tags with the #RaspberryPi
I found this and thought it might be of interest. This is an ongoing project to create a stand-alone kiosk with the Raspberry Pi. The author has moved on to reading RFID tags using a breakout board. Read more here
Stream #RaspberryPi camera to multiple clients
On the Foundation forum, Philip Heron has posted about a piece of software he’s written to stream video from the Raspberry Pi camera module to multiple TCP clients. fsphil/net264 · GitHub.
OCR with the #RaspberryPi camera
Over on the Foundation forum, “mikerr” has worked out how to translate an image of text taken with raspistill into a text file. Read more here
Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer
Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There’s also a great script to monitor a DropBox folder that you might find interesting. Read more here. Giles previously used the Pi and a thermal printer to print out poems with the Little Box of Poems.