One of our young coders, Amy Mather, recently spoke along with Clive Beale from the Raspberry Pi Foundation at Wired Next Generation in London.
Watch Clive Beale and 13-year-old Amy Mather discuss how they took an established concept and edited it to reflect their own original ideas. Mather is a computer programmer who has become famous in the Raspberry Pi community for being a passionate advocate for coding using the tiny computer.
Manchester’s 14 year old Amy Mather just won the Digital Girl of the Year award at ICT 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Digital Girl of the Year (11-14 years): Amy Mather, UK. At 13 years old, Amy has been coding for three years and has inspired people of all ages with her keynote speeches at the Raspberry Jamboree, Campus Party EU and Wired: Next Generation. She teaches older pupils how to code during her school lunch breaks and with the Manchester Girl Geeks.
Our own Amy Mather was just featured on CBBC’s Newsround – along with Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton.
Raspberry Pi might be a tiny computer but it’s having a big impact.
Designed to make computer code writing easy, it’s been used to film a teddy bears leap from space, to play a xylophone and to create a sat nav for bikes.
And since launching in 2011, they’ve now sold their millionth device in the UK.
Nel’s been to meet some kids who’ve been inspired to get coding.
This issue of Linux User & Developer Magazine features Jason Barnett‘s robot tutorial.
Linux User & Developer is one of the world’s most successful open source authorities and attracts an enthusiastic audience of advanced users, IT professionals and developers who appreciate its unparalleled coverage of Linux and open source software. In Linux User 132 we take on our most ambitious project yet – building a Raspberry Pi robot. Over 18 pages we show you how to build your own for as little as £100.
Here’s an interview reSpace did with Ben about Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Jams and the possible use of Raspberry Pi in libraries:
Short interview with Ben Nuttall, a Web & Software Developer from Manchester, also a Linux & FLOSS advocate, Maths & Computer Science enthusiast, WW Kayaker, Organiser of Manchester Raspberry Jam & curator of Pi Weekly.
I met Ben in London just before Mozilla Festival 2013 and I asked him about what possibilities he sees with Raspberry Pi in a library setting.
An article by free software advocate, Raspberry Pi hacker and North West tech event organiser Les Pounder, including interviews with successful Jam organisers Alan O’Donahoe, Jack Wearden and our own Ben Nuttall
The Raspberry Pi has been available for over 12 months now. Its launch was met with feverish excitement, but once the initial scramble for stock was over and people had a precious Pi cradled in hand, many turned to the question of what to do with all its potential.
In response to that human need to gather over a common interest, Raspberry Jams have popped up across the UK.
We had plenty of newcomers at July’s Jam, which is great to see. Amongst them was Alan McDonald, who wrote this blog post about his experience learning and hacking at Madlab.
Yesterday I went to a Raspberry Jam – the pi world is full of tasty puns – at Madlab in Manchester. The jam is run by Ben Nuttall, a young entrepreneurial enthusiast who’s also co-started a weekly email newsletter. (It’s thanks to it that I know some of the stuff below) Here he is giving us an opening presentation on developments in the pi world.
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Our organiser Ben Nuttall recently launched a Raspberry Pi email newsletter at piweekly.net – the emails aggregate links to news, projects and blog articles from the Raspberry Pi community.
A free weekly newsletter for Raspberry Pi news and projects – out every Friday
EDIT: In August 2013, Pi Weekly was featured on the Raspberry Pi website and we were praised and highly recommended by Liz Upton. Read the post – Pi Weekly: a free email newsletter
Here are the slides from a talk on using USB Webcams and the Camera Module with a Raspberry Pi given (twice) by our organiser Ben Nuttall at the York Raspberry Jam held at the National STEM Centre. The talk covers how to take pictures using a normal webcam, or with the new camera module, how to automate picture taking, manage copying and synchronising files between your Pi and your computer and setting up for time-lapse photography.
Here is an example Ben made of using the Raspberry Pi camera module for a time-lapse – 1 picture per minute over nearly 24 hours:
