Events, Health, Science

Raspberry Pi-powered experiment workshops for Body Science Saturday – Braintree – 19th March

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Andy Melder, who is one of the organisers of the splendid Southend Raspberry Jam, is running Raspberry Pi-powered drop-in sessions throughout the day this Saturday at Braintree District Museum on Manor Street in Braintree, Essex. Running from 10am-4pm, the workshops will feature the following:

  • SonicPi for the AstroPi competition (if possible, please bring a charged laptop)
  • The chance to run real AstroPi code currently operating on the International Space Station.
  • Explore infra-red radiation using the Raspberry Pi NoIR camera.
  • Explore colour blindness using the Pimoroni UnicornHAT to induce (hopefully) temporary colour blindness!

Other activities are also planned along the science experiment line, and you can read more about those by taking a look at this press release.

Art, Blinkies, Crowdfunding, Shopping

VoxCube – many blinkies controlled by a Raspberry Pi in this 8x8x8 cube on Kickstarter

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Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has been in touch about his new Kickstarter project. Mark previously ran the successful campaign for BerryIMU – a multi-function gyro/accelerometer sensor which now sits at the heart of the Picorder, my sensors-in-a-box project.

The new Kickstarter is to fund the VoxCube (short for Voxel Cube) which is a custom-designed 8x8x8 cube full of RGB LEDs. The cubes are chainable, so you can create some amazing effects (such as the wave pictured) and will be compatible, and fully controllable, with the Raspberry Pi (all models) plus Arduino and other microcontrollers. Each cube contains an ATmega 1284P chip and is capable of producing 32,767 colours.

There are some absolutely glorious animations featured on the Kickstarter page, so head over there to check them out.

The VoxCube comes as a kit which requires no soldering and should, according to Mark, take about 20 minutes to put together. It comes with everything you require to get it running and includes an acrylic case to turn it into a proper ‘exhibit’.

Pledges which include the VoxCube start at $225 (Australian) which is about £120 including shipping. This seems expensive, but it is a beautiful product with a lot of potential.

So, if you’re interested, head over to the Kickstarter page.

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Big Data, Databases, Programming, Software, Tutorials

Analysing football statistics with R, Python, MongoDB and a Raspberry Pi

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Paul Weeks has set up his Raspberry Pi to do data analysis on football results and other statistics. His first post dealt with setting up his Raspberry Pi for the job, including installing various software packages. His second post is all about analysing a certain data set using the installed R, Python and MongoDB packages. Not really my topic area (football) but it’s a lovely source of data for doing analysis!

Art, Events, Making, Raspberry Pi Foundation

Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists exhibition – apply for tickets

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The Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists programme focused on “supporting and inspiring young people who are interested in creative uses of technology.” The initiative, spearheaded by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is a mentoring programme that has taken nine young people under its wing to encourage their use of technology in a creative way. The programme is now reaching the end of its year-long run with a “New Works Exhibition” due to take place at Raspberry Pi Headquarters on 23rd April. There are two sessions – an afternoon and an evening – and you can apply for tickets to attend by visiting this page. It’ll be well worth the visit to Cambridge to see what these exciting young people have been up to! Read more about the exhibition here and find out more about the CTs here.