The Foundation’s Dan Fisher has just blogged about Skycademy, which starts today in their Cambridge HQ. 30 educators were invited to take part and they are currently learning the ins and outs of High Altitude Ballooning. You can read more about…
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Skycademy 2016 announced – Raspberry Pi high altitude ballooning CPD
James Robinson has just announced that this year’s Skycademy will take place on Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th August. Skycademy is a FREE two-and-a-half day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) event aiming to provide experience of high altitude ballooning to educators,…
Skycademy round-up by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
In August, the Raspberry Pi Foundation ran Skycademy, a High Altitude Ballooning course for educators and kids group leaders. Since then, there have been several successful follow-up launches by the students of that course and James Robinson from the Foundation has…
Skycademy write-up shows how exciting it was!
Lots of us followed the exploits of the recent Skycademy on Twitter and on the HabHub tracking website. Although we were basically following icons on a Google Map, I found it enthralling and it was great to hear the constant…
Follow the Raspberry Pi #Skycademy flights now!
Very shortly, several high altitude balloons will be launched from a location in Cambridgeshire by the folks from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Skycademy. You can track them on HabHub. Look out for RPF-named trackers. You can follow Twitter traffic by searching…
Skycademy update – follow the Raspberry Pi balloons next week!
Skycademy is a new initiative from the Raspberry Pi Foundation that will teach educators and children’s group leaders how to launch high altitude balloons with Raspberry Pis attached. Next week, a series of balloons will be launched by the 24…
Skycademy – learn about High Altitude Ballooning with the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation is running a two-and-a-half day free CPD session for teachers and anyone who works with youngsters (such as scout leaders etc) on the subject of High Altitude Ballooning. The event, which runs from 24th-26th of August, will enable…
Testing high-altitude ballooning kit with a kite and a Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler recently attended the Skycademy training course to learn how to fly high-altitude balloons with Raspberry Pi payloads. He has now merged his experience with one of his hobbies – kite flying. Previously he used kites to aerial-map the…
Watch a virtual CamJam – Raspberry Pi talk videos up on YouTube
Andy Batey has smashed his record at getting the recorded videos from Saturday’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam up on YouTube. They are now available on the CamJam channel and are prefixed “CamJam10”. There’s some great talks available: Concurrent programming with the Pi…
The Pi Podcast covers Pi Wars!
A couple of weekends ago, Tim Richardson and I (having recovered from the local chilli festival) were interviewed by the guys over at The Pi Podcast about Pi Wars. It was a great experience and I’m really happy these people in…