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Raspberry Pi & Code Club teams to grow with new roles being advertised

by Michael Horne • 20 January 2016 • 0 Comments

A couple of new jobs today.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is recruiting a junior designer at their offices in Cambridge. The person who is hired will be carrying out photographic, video and typesetting work, alongside illustrative and graphic design tasks. Apply here and supply your portfolio.

Meanwhile, Code Club in London is looking for a Community Support Assistant to work at their London office and look after the community of volunteers, teachers and club hosts. More details are available here.

Events, Raspberry Jams, Reviews

Egham Raspberry Jam write-up from Average Man

by Michael Horne • 19 January 2016 • 0 Comments

Richard Saville attended the 10th Egham Raspberry Jam and has done a great write-up of his experience there. This is well worth reading if you’ve never attended a Jam. The Egham event is very show-and-tell-y with projects being shared and chat being had over the course of three hours. Read the account here.

Events, Raspberry Jams

Northamptonshire Raspberry Jam – 16th April

by Michael Horne • 19 January 2016 • 0 Comments

Raspberry Pi Certified Educator Scott Turner is organising the first Northamptonshire Raspberry Jam which will take place on 16th April. The event, which runs from 11am-3pm will take place in the Newton Building at the University of Northampton. Ticket numbers are limited as it’s the first Jam so get yours quick if you’d like to attend. No word yet on activities, talks, show-and-tell etc. It’s lovely to see the area get some Pi. 🙂

Get your free tickets here.

Events, Raspberry Jams

Chelmsford Raspberry Jam – Saturday 13th February

by Michael Horne • 18 January 2016 • 0 Comments

The Southend Raspberry Jam Team and Essex Libraries have teamed up to offer the second Chelmsford Raspberry Jam. It will take place on Saturday 13th February from 10am-5pm at Chelmsford Library. This one will feature talks, workshops and show-and-tell. They need lots of people to attend, and lots of people to help, so please be generous with your time if you can be! You can get tickets for this free event by registering here.

Audio, Making, Music, Programming

Four-track audio looper with a Raspberry Pi

by Michael Horne • 18 January 2016 • 0 Comments

Szymon Kaliski has put together a Raspberry Pi, some buttons and potentiometers and a lot of circuitry to build a four-track audio looper. You can record four eight-second loops and then adjust their playback with the buttons and potentiometers to achieve the sound you want. It’s all highly technical, but he’s written up what he can and placed it and the code onto Github. See it in action below:

LoopPI from Szymon Kaliski on Vimeo.

Making, Programming, Sensors, Tutorials

Build a physical dashboard with the Raspberry Pi

by Michael Horne • 18 January 2016 • 0 Comments

This is a nice tutorial from Adafruit. They’ve taken several of their own products (as they normally do) and created a physical dashboard with lots of digital numeric readouts and even a swingometer that uses a motor to move an indicator/pointer. Really nice use of technology.

Read more here or watch a walk-through of the dashboard below: