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:
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)
