An interesting article from Jina Kim about her experience at ‘Girl Geeks visit Raspberry Jam’:
A soul searching journey by a New Yorker
When I heard about the RaspberryPi Jam, I had no idea what to expect. Sure, I remembered programming from my days as a Java Programmer. But what is physical computing?
Continue reading » Life of Raspberry Pi (madlab.org.uk)
Somewhere between the end of Thursday and the start of Friday was the anniversary of the release of the Raspberry Pi (29/02/12 – a leap-year day).
Happy birthday!
Thanks for all the first birthday wishes, everyone! Because we launched on a leap-day last year, we’re celebrating on Friday. #partyhat
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) February 28, 2013
And they also managed to squeeze in the announcement:
And yes, we did hit our target of selling over a million in the first twelve months. Which has made us *very* happy.
— Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) February 28, 2013
Astonishing! What an accomplishment. Thanks personally to Eben, Liz, Pete, Rob and all those involved in the foundation, to Alan O’Donahoe for his efforts with the Jam and Jamboree, to Paul Peech for the logo, the website, the Pibow and the Picade, and to everyone else who supported the Pi through its first year out in the open. It’s been an amazing year – here’s to many more!
Read the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s messages on their blog post » Happy Birthday to us! (raspberrypi.org)
Interesting short post from Dad Jammer Dave Potts about playing with Minecraft at McrRaspJam IX:
It was interesting to have the RaspberryPi running as a man-in-the-middle without any significant interruptions to the game play. As a next step I think we are going to try and find a third party library to help with the wire tapping.
Continue reading » Minecraft Wire Tapping (dadhacker.blogspot.co.uk)
Jamming with Girl Geeks, Madlab at capacity!
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A well attended and thoroughly enjoyable day at Madlab. In pictures, thanks to Alan O’Donahoe on Google Plus:
Hmmm… I was too busy talking and teaching to take many photos at the Manchester Raspberry Jam
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Raspberry Pi Robots from Simon Walters and Jason Barnett:
Photoset from October’s Jam, provided on Flickr by Madlab
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Regular attendee Ian Stacey provides a write-up of how he built his Raspberry Pi alternative to the Apple Time Machine backup system!
The route to the Pime Capsule started as an attempt to get the config files on the Pi to be easily accessible to me on my Mac. After a bit of reading up, I discovered that the thing I wanted to use to do this (netatalk/avahi) could also expose a partition of a disk as a Time Capsule to Macs connected to the network.
Continue reading » Pime Capsule (istacey.eu)
A post covering Jams III and IV by organiser Ben Nuttall:
A month later and we’re back in Madlab for Manchester Raspberry Jam IV – again I begin with a recap of the news: Revision 2.0, Made In the UK and Make Your Own PiOS, and move on to skill share pairing!
Continue reading » Manchester Raspberry Jam Continued (bennuttall.com)
Liz Hannaford is a journalist who’s decided to take up the life of a techie! She wrote up her experience at the Jam:
I was really impressed by how generous people were with their time and equipment to help me get started.
And as it turned out, I was NOT the only woman! Hello, Dawn! It was great to see lots of dad there with their 10, 11 yr old sons. But where were the daughters?
I really liked the way the event was set up as a sharing experience. Everyone was asked at the beginning what they wanted to get out of it and what they were able to put in (nothing, in my case).
Continue reading » RaspberryJam at Manchester’s MadLab 08.09.12.
