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.
One of our regulars, Simon Walters, has developed a really cool system involving getting Scratch to talk/listen to the GPIO pins on the Pi. He’s devoted many hours at the Jam to showing kids how to get it to work. The post features two videos taken at the August Jam:
While at Manchester Raspberry Jam, Robert came along and used Scratch (he knew all about Scratch already) to control Red, Yellow and Green LEDs connected to a Raspberry Pi GPIO port
The first Jam was attended by the hosts of the Full Circle Podcast, who recorded a few interviews with participants and a round table discussion with organiser Ben Nuttall.
Raspberry Jams are user group meetings, this one being the first of its kind being held in the country, all of the hosts attended the event which was held at the Madlab
Tony interviews various attendee’s from the event including: Dan Hett a Games Developer who’s heavily involved with Manchester Games Jam who wants to promote and get involved with games development on the Pi. Also Dan is hoping to promote the Global Game Jam which is an annual event which takes place at the end of January every year, which hopefully will be held in Salford more information available here. Dan also hopes to be able to put on a presentation/demonstration at the upcoming Manchester Mini Maker Faire details later.
Tony also interviews Amy a 13 year old who has recently received a Raspberry Pi and she is a keen Scratch Programmer.
Tony interviews Ben Nuttall the organiser of Manchester Raspberry Jam and discusses his interest in the Pi and motivation for setting up and running the event. A more in-depth round table interview with Ben and all the Hosts appears later in the show.
Finally Tony interviews Martin Ranyard who presented a talk on 3D Printing at the event, mainly focussed around producing a case for the Pi and his experiences purchasing, building and setting up his first 3D printer.
