Here’s Matt Manning giving his balanced review of the Kano kit. Well worth watching if you’re thinking of buying the kit. In short: there are advantages and disadvantages to the kit and it’s heart is in the right place. You can leave comments for Matt on the YouTube page.
You can now buy a Kano kit for £99.99 on their site.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced that Jack Lang is stepping down from the position of Chairman of the Foundation. He’ll remain on the board as Vice Chair. The position of Chair will be filled by David Cleevely who currently sits on the board of Raspberry Pi Trading. To find out more about David, head on over to Wikipedia.
Spencer Organ is running a Raspberry Jam in Birmingham on 22nd November. It’s taking place at King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy (which is just a fabulously long name for a school) and will run from 10am-3pm. There will be various activities including workshops and it’s aimed at families. Full details are available on Spencer’s blog and you can book tickets here. Tickets are free on Eventbrite, although adults will need to pay £2.50 on the door (which is a great way of getting around the Eventbrite fees!)
Matthew Timmons-Brown, “The Raspberry Pi Guy”, has just started a new series on robotics on his YouTube channel. Matt’s always been a strong proponent of using robots in education, both in schools and at home, so this comes as so surprise to those of us who know him. He’s using the Pi2Go Lite platform to do his series which is a £30 kit that comes with everything you need – you just need to add your Pi to it. This first video is just an intro, so be sure to subscribe to his channel so that you don’t miss future parts. I’ll also publicise the publication of each part here. Watch the intro video on YouTube or see it below:
The MagPi have just published their October 2014 issue. This time, judging by the cover, there are articles on:
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves are displayed on a PiTFT screen, although I guess you could do the same thing on a regular monitor. Take a look at their tutorial here.
