Manchester Raspberry Jam

For Digital Makers

Jam #16 Videos

A huge thanks to our AV Team for filming all of the talks at Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI in November – Les Pounder, Dan Lynch, Olly Clark and Tony Hughes.

Pi-powered Ping Pong Pursuit

Manchester-based sysadmin Will Jessop, who presented his robot (mostly made at the Manchester Hackspace) at our 16th Jam last month – has had his story featured by Ben Nuttall on the Raspberry Pi blog:

Will Jessop is a systems administrator for 37signals and he runs the North West Ruby User Group in Manchester. I bumped in to him recently and discovered he was working on a personal project with a Raspberry Pi. The aim of the project is to solve the problem of ping pong balls on the floor at the 37signals office in Chicago. The solution is a web-enabled robot with mounted camera allowing people to collect balls in to a basket.

img_4256

Continue reading » Pi-powered Ping Pong Persuit (raspberrypi.org)

Bullet Time Effect – by Andrew Robison

Andrew Robinson and the PiFace team wrote up their bullet time project, which was demonstrated at Jam 16:

Some people said we were trying to build a Raspberry Pi time machine. In some ways they were right. Others compared it to the LHC at CERN and said we would warp time and space when they saw our pictures on Facebook. They were partly right too.
And on the Friday night before the Jam it felt like we were building the LHC! With nearly half a kilometre of network cables, 48 Raspberry Pis fitted with cameras and PiFace Control and Displays we wondered if we’d finally been too ambitious with a project!

img_7442

Continue reading » Bullet Time Effect – Frozen Raspberry Pi (pifacedigital.wordpress.com)

Jam 16 Photos – from Olly Clark

Some more photos from November’s Jam – from supporter and AV Team member Olly Clark.

10968999505_ec08532751_b

Continue reading » Ben’s Last Manchester Raspberry Jam (flickr.com)

Welcome Ben – by Liz Upton

Our Founder, Ben Nuttall, recently moved to Cambridge to begin working at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He’ll be doing web development work and some outreach – including education, workshops, talks and projects.

We’re welcoming a new member to the team at Pi Towers today. Some of you already know Ben Nuttall from his work on the Pi Weekly email newsletter (if you haven’t signed up already, you should), his hosting of the Manchester Jams, and his STEM activities.

bennuttall-1024x768

Continue reading » Welcome Ben! (raspberrypi.org)

Alan O’Donohoe’s Podcast from MGG Kano Workshop

Here’s a podcast from Alan O’Donahoe at the Manchester Girl Geeks Kano Workshop, where he interviews the Girl Geeks’ organiser Katie Steckles, our founder Ben NuttallMathew Keegan from Kano, and others.

From Audioboo » Teach GCSE Computing 22Nov13 with @mcrgirlgeeks and @teamkano (audioboo.fm)

Fruitful Jam – by Hamish Cunningham

Here’s a blog post from Jam attendee Hamish Cunningham from the University of Sheffield Computer Science department on his experience at Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI:

I learned a lot, and it was great to meet most of the Pi foundation people for the first time.

Two things in particular stood out for me, one about how to work with schools and one about the mobile hot-swap UPS battery gizmo that we’ve been building (and which I demo’d in various applications at the Jam).

baldy-640x480

Continue reading » Fruitful Jam (pi.gate.ac.uk)

T’ North – by Charlotte Godley

Charlotte Godley’s write-up of the big Manchester Jam:

Unlike normal Mancunian Jams, this one included talks from several different people who write and create things using the pi, including a Q&A with Liz and Eben Upton, as well as Clive Beale, the education manager for the Foundation. Personally I signed up for doing two: one on GPIO, which I pretty much always do, and another on the Adafruit WebIDE. Heh. Both went wrong

Continue reading » T’ North! : Manchester Raspberry Jam (charlottegodley.co.uk)

Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI Photos – by Jim Hobbs

Some photos from our sixteenth Jam – by Jim Hobbs:

hobbsy-20131116-113945-0-manchester-raspberry-jam-600x450
See the full album » Manchester Raspberry Jam (Sat 16th Nov 2013) (hobbsy.com)

Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI Photos – by Tony Hughes

Some photos from our sixteenth Jam – by Tony Hughes from the Blackpool Linux User Group and Oggcamp crew:
10902380255_466eabce15_b

See the full album » Manchester Raspberry Jam 16/11/2013 (flickr.com)