Manchester based inventor of the PiFace, Dr. Andrew Robinson, wrote an article for BBC Springwatch on using a Raspberry Pi to monitor bird activity in his garden. The project was also featured on Springwatch on TV.
If you’re anything like me, you’ve wondered what happens in your garden while you’re not watching. I wanted to know when birds are most active – are they busier in the evening or early morning? Thanks to the latest technology, now with a couple of taps of my smartphone I can monitor the bird activity in my garden from anywhere in the world.
Last month, Madlab’s Hwa Young and Dave Mee ran a Raspberry Pi workshop in Anyang, South Korea.
I gave an introduction to MadLab and Manchester for the first half, and Dave ran a hands-on Raspberry Pi and Scratch workshop in the latter.
Most people in Korea only know Manchester for its football (mostly because of Park Ji-Sung), so I started with some background about Manchester’s industrial heritage and the creative digital industry in my talk. There has been a parallel movement within Korea to start and run hacker/makerspaces in the past few years, evident from the number of spaces running under a make and share model. MakerFaire Korea will also run for the second time this weekend (1st June).
This month’s edition of Wired Magazine features the Raspberry Pi, discusses its impact around the world and includes interviews with and about the likes of Eben Upton, Pete Lomas, Paul Beech and Amy Mather.
Moments before Amy Mather is due to give the closing presentation at the Raspberry Jamboree being held in Manchester, the creator of the computer which inspired her talk faces a fresh challenge.
This month’s edition of the MagPi magazine features an interview with our very own Amy Mather!
In the unlikely case that you haven’t already seen the video and don’t know the name Amy Mather, I would like to introduce you to a young lady who hosted, quite possibly, the highlight presentation of the recent Manchester Jamboree, and who certainly has a bright future ahead of her in computer science.
Here’s a fantastic interview with ICT teacher and Raspberry Jam coordinator Alan O’Donahoe – by computing education researcher Neil Brown, who attended the Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp and Manchester Raspberry Jam X.
I recently caught up with Alan O’Donohoe, aka @teknoteacher, a computing teacher from Preston. Bursting with energy and enthusiasm, he has a blog, a series of podcasts, runs a raft of computing CPD as well as Hack to the Future and Raspberry Jam events intended to engage the public with computing. No wonder he’s a CAS Master Teacher. In this blog post, Alan talks to me about his Raspberry Jam events (meetings for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts) and the impact he sees them having.
Here’s a cool project by Mark Frimston – a simple text-based Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) game, which could be run on a Raspberry Pi or other low-end server.
MUD Pi is a free and open source project (that’s free as in freedom). This means that the source code is included and you are free to read it, copy it, extend it and use it as a starting point for your own MUD game or any other project. MUD Pi was written in the Python programming language.
Check out the project on Github » MUD Pi (github.com)
A neat tutorial on setting up a Remote Desktop connection for a Raspberry Pi from long-term supporter Daley Chetwynd
I’ve had a Raspberry Pi since May 2012, when the first wave arrived. It’s a great device, but requires a display if not only connected to by SSH over a network. The Raspberry Pi has a HDMI output port, allowing it to be connected to a HDMI TV for display. It’s inconvenient to carry a TV around every time I wish to use my Raspberry Pi though, so I usually connect to it using a Remote Desktop connection from my Fedora 18 Linux laptop. This post gives instructions as to how I’ve set up this remote desktop connection.
Our organiser Ben Nuttall teamed up with STEMNET at MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) to run a Raspberry Jam for schools.
I organised an event with the STEMNET (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths Network) team at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), based on the Manchester Raspberry Jam I run monthly at Madlab. The STEM Raspberry Jam was to be a new activity the STEM Ambassador network could offer to schools, so we ran a pilot (pi-lot) to give the idea a whirl.
