July 2015 – Manchester Raspberry Jam 31
Our next Jam is at The Shed on Saturday 11th July
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For Digital MakersJune 2015 – Manchester Raspberry Jam 30
Our June Jam was at The Shed on Saturday 20th June
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May 2015: Manchester Raspberry Jam 29
Our May Jam was at The Shed on Saturday 16th May
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Activities from May 2015
these activities run in addition to the regularly scheduled activities in the new section
- 14:00 – Picamera and image editing in Python
Minecraft workshop
Get set up taking photos with the Pis camera module, then learn how to do some image editing in python
Materials for the workshops can be found at bit.ly/mcrraspjam
April 2015: Manchester Raspberry Jam 28
Our next Jam is at The Shed on Saturday 11th April
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Activities for April 2015
these activities run in addition to the regularly scheduled activities in the new section
- 11:00 – Minecraft workshop (repeat)
- 14:00 – Minecraft: Storm the Castle
- 15:30 – TBC(Workshop or demonstration)
Minecraft workshop
Learn the basics of coding in Minecraft using the Python API. You don’t need to have programmed in Python before to attend
This is a shortened repeat of our March workshop, to allow everybody to play Storm the Castle
Storm the Castle
Once you’ve learnt the basics of the Minecraft API, use these skills in a race to the top a castle.
Prizes for the first 3 to reach the top
TNT demonstration
More information soon…
February 2015 Workshop & Talk
Scratch GPIO Workshop
11:30am – 1:00pm
Pete Lomas will be running a workshop on getting started with Scratch and General Purpose Input Output (GPIO), built on the excellent Scratch GPIO support package created by Simon Walters. Ideal for beginners.
- There are 10 loan systems available for use, or bring your own.
- The systems and assistance will be available for the rest of the jam to carry on having fun.
- A selection of boards that attach to the Raspberry Pi will be available to try.
“Bullet time” Camera Rig
2:00pm
Star in your own recreation of the famous ‘bullet time’ effect popularised by The Matrix films at the next Manchester Raspberry Jam.
40 Raspberry Pis take your picture from every angle in unison, which are then stitched into a video where you appear to hang in mid air while the camera moves round the scene. Andrew Robinson and his team will also be on hand to explain the story behind the rig, how it works, and share the backstage gossip from its recent use on BBC Four’s iconic Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
[Photo Credit Paul Wilkinson]
Manchester Raspberry Jam 26
Saturday 7th February
Tickets available here
Our first Jam workshop – Raspberry PI GPIO using Python
We’re pleased today to announce our first Jam workshop!
Pete Lomas, Trustee of the Raspberry Pi foundation will be running an electronics-focused workshop on Python GPIO with the Raspberry Pi at our next Jam (November 8th)
We’ll be running various other workshops in the future. We’re open to suggestions, so if there’s something you’d like a workshop on, send us a tweet @mcrraspjam
Get tickets for the next jam at mcrraspjam23.eventbrite.com
Jam Workshop – Getting Started with Raspberry Pi GPIO using Python
This is the first of a series of ‘electronics’ workshops running at Manchester Raspberry Jam. We have space for up to 20 participants working in pairs. All kit will be provided.
Contents:
Introduction: Overview of Raspberry Pi GPIO and Python Library
Practical Sessions:
- LED’s and other outputs. (Get those lights flashing)
- Switch Inputs (Making a reaction game)
- LCD Display (Hooking up a 2 x 16 LCD)
- Do your own thing…. – a range of sensors and output options will be available to try (or bring your own)
The main session will last about 90 minutes starting at 11:30am and the kit will be available till the end of the Jam.
Dave Jones’s picamera Python Module
Manchester Raspberry Jam and Python North West regular Dave Jones has been working hard on a pure Python implementation of the Pi camera module – of which he recently released a feature complete v1.0. The announcement was made by Ben Nuttall on the Raspberry Pi blog, along with example usage and demonstration of its application in a web app:
If you have a Raspberry Pi camera module, you’ve probably used raspistill and raspivid, which are command line tools for using the camera. Dave Jones, a Database Admin, software developer and SQL know-it-all based in Manchester has been working on an equivalent, feature complete implementation of these in Python. This means you can access the camera module directly from a Python script, without using os.system or executing a subprocess.
Continue reading » A pure Python interface for the camera module: meet picamera! (raspberrypi.org)
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.
- Ben Nuttall – Opening Talk
- Hamish Cunningham – MoPi – Mobile hot-swap power board
- Dave Jones – picamera Python module
- Andrew Robinson – Pi in Education, Frozen Pi & Raspberry Ripple
- Jason Barnett – Raspberry Robotics
- Will Jessop – Ping Pong Ball Collecting Robot
- Hamish Cunningham – Virtual Paint Brush
- Charlotte Godley – Physical Computing / GPIO Projects I gon and dun
- Owen McAree – Using the Raspberry Pi with MATLAB/Simulink
- David Akerman – High Altitude Ballooning with the Pi
- Clive Beale – Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education Mission
- Eben & Liz Upton and Clive Beale – Foundation Panel Q&A
- Craig Richardson – Minecraft Pi Programming with Python Book
- Charlotte Godley – Adafruit’s Pi WebIDE
- Jack Kelly – Raspberry Pi at the University of Manchester
- Ryan Walmsley – Secret project in Development, Robots and Pi
- Dave Jones – Picroscopy
- Paul Beech – Hardware UX
- Alan O’Donohoe – Jam, Jamual & Raspberry Jamboree
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.
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!
Continue reading » Bullet Time Effect – Frozen Raspberry Pi (pifacedigital.wordpress.com)