9-year old Julian Peen will be turning the concept of a Masterclass on it’s head on 8th June in Sydney. He’s the tutor!
The event, which will be held at the Powerhouse Museum Thinkspace, starts at 11am and the young inventor is all prepared to deliver a smashing class on using the Raspberry Pi.
There have been a few boards released recently to compete with the Raspberry Pi. The latest is the new BeagleBone Black from Texas Instruments.
The BBB has a 1GHz ARM A8 processor, 2GB onboard storage, 512MB RAM and a bunch of connectivity options including a massive 65 digital IO pins, 7 analog, SPI, I2C and 8 PWMs.
Until now, no-one has come close to matching the Pi’s price point, but this new $45 board comes close and it’ll be interesting to see if it is as popular as our lovely little green board.
Cymplecy has released a new version of his Scratch GPIO software for the Raspberry Pi. It allows you to run Scratch in parallel with a back-end script that interfaces between the visual environment and the GPIO. Read more here and download the set-up scripts
SF Innovations have done an interesting slide presentation on the basics of voltage, current, resistance and Ohm’s Law. See the presentation here
Once again, Manchester proves it has a thriving Raspberry Pi community. Ben Nuttall organised a pilot event with the STEMNET team at the Museum of Science and Industry. He hopes that this will become a new activity that STEM ambassadors can offer to schools.
You can read his account of the day here and you can read what STEMNET themselves have to say about it here.
Brendan Nee has built a wall-mounted information kiosk with the Raspberry Pi and Chromium browser. He’s documented the whole process here.
