Over at piwars.org, we have just announced more information about the next competition, due to take place on 1st April 2017 at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory. You can read all about the expected challenges and make a note of entry dates by visiting this page.
We’re enormously excited about the competition and we hope that everyone else will be too!
We’ve also been featured in this month’s The MagPi magazine which you can download/purchase from this page.
Cat Lamin is looking for volunteers to help with general arrangements and workshops at the Truro Raspberry Jam which is coming up. The event will take place on Saturday, 23rd July from 12-4pm at Truro College.
If you are in the region, and you’re willing to help, please don’t delay – get in touch with Cat today either on Twitter or contact me and I will pass the message on terribly quickly.
Time is of the essence, so please get in touch today!
Finnian Anderson and his friend Ben James took Ben’s 250-class racing drone out for a spin. Before they did this, however, they used a lot of electrical tape to attach a Pi Zero and camera module. A little bit of start-up magic and they had the Pi recording video while the drone was flying! You can read more about their day (including cake!) here and see a video of their exploits below.
There are some great resources over at the Foundation and a new one has just been added. This one uses the Pi camera to take a ‘selfie’ and then converts the RGB data into Minecraft blocks. If any of them are TNT (and they should be, cos TNT is cool!) you can have hours of fun blowing yourself up 🙂 Take a look at the resource here.
Richard Saville (Average Man) saw a lot of people at Pi Wars 2015 using LiPo batteries to power their robots. He had always heard of the dangers of using these batteries and was more than a little wary of doing so. However, he has now looked into the comparative dangers of using different types of packs and decided to give LiPos a go, erring on the side of caution (as one should when dealing with bang-y type thingies). He’s written an introduction to the batteries here, and it’s well worth a read if you’re interested in making your Pi portable or wireless.
James Mitchell loves photography. In fact, recently he took pictures of the moon with a Raspberry Pi – you can see the results here. Now, he has moved on to taking photographs of 360 degree panoramas. To do this, he’s used 8 Raspberry Pi Zeros (all with Pi cameras) hooked up to 2 Raspberry Pi 3s over OTG. With a little help from his friends at Pimoroni, James arranged for a casing to be built (as you can see above) to hold everything in place. You can read an introduction to the project here. Further posts will be coming over the next few weeks with more detail.
