Art, Video

Raspberry Pi used in new Greek Royal artworks

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On 2nd November at Christie’s in London, five new artworks by Prince Nikolaos of Greece were unveiled. They are known as Soundwalls and feature a huge video display powered by a Raspberry Pi. The Pi also provides a soundtrack to the exhibit using a pre-selected playlist. The unveiling was attended by Prince Michael of Kent and King Constantine of Greece as well as many other luminaries from the arts field. You can read more about the technical capacity of the Soundwalls by going to their website.

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Raspberry Pi merges with Code Club

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Exciting news today. The CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Philip Colligan, has announced that Code Club is going to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raspberry Pi. I believe this is great news. Both organisations have similar aims – to get children to code – and the pooling of resources and ideas is sure to benefit both sides. Read more here. If you’ve never heard of Code Club, or want to get involved, take a look at their website here: www.codeclub.org.uk

Crowdfunding

Pimoroni seek crowdfunded investment for future expansion

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Sheffield-based maker/seller Pimoroni are looking to expand and to do it they are going the crowd-funding/investment route. They have launched a campaign on CrowdCube to raise £315,000, for which they are offering 4% of equity. If you’re interested in following their campaign, or you’d like to invest and share in the benefits take a look at CrowdCube now or read more information on the Pimoroni site. Here’s their announcement video:

Events

Raspberry Pi workshops at the Mozilla Festival – 6th-8th November

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Mozilla Festival is taking place at Ravensbourne College in London from 6th-8th November. As part of the Festival, there will be a Raspberry Pi ‘zone’ which will feature 17 (!) workshops including:

  • Astro Pi: Your Code in Space (by our own Carrie Anne)
  • Musical fruit with the Explorer HAT (by Jim Darby)
  • Hacking Minecraft Pi with Python (by Yasmin Bey)
  • Scratch-ing the Surface with GPIO (by Cat Lamin)

This is a great opportunity to get tuition from some highly-accomplished experts, even if you don’t know what a Raspberry Pi is!

Tickets are £3 for youngsters and £45 for the not-so-young. Buy tickets here.

Read more here.