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Pi jam 22/3/2014

Posted on 2014-03-22 by simon

Another month and another trip up to Exeter to take part in a Pi jam. Again anyone not there missed some really good projects.

Gordon Henderson came along with the fuze box, fuze basic now integrates with minecraft pi allowing you to write programs that directly control the minecraft world.

Fuze box running Minecraft Pi and Fuze Basic.

The Glockenspiel was again there along with the other projects from a local school teacher.

I didn’t demo any of my own projects but did do a quick demo of Sonic Pi and my nested loops program to the lady organising Sidmouth Science week, My main demo on my pi was the Helicopter game created by Tom Brough. Who demonstrated his Bob Robot, (see blog for videos that have been previously created)

Tom was also using a digital picture frame to explain how bob works.

Another project had a LCD display to dispay the local IP address ( I think) of the device on the network

It is the small box on the right hand side with the green display

In all another successful event and looking forward to the Torbay Jam on 12th April, Hope to see lots of families, children, teachers and other school staff there. We need more demos 🙂

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Bob takes first steps

Posted on 2014-03-09 by Paul Sutton

This is a video from Tom Brough with his new robot (bob) that was demoed at the pi jam in March.

Note : This is Arduino based not Pi based, but the two can really complement each other hence we have Arduino add on boards such as the Gertduino.

Progress is looking excellent on this.
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Exeter Pi jam – 22/02/2014

Posted on 2014-02-22 by Paul Sutton

As always an excellent mix of social activity, techy talk and great demos.

Highlights are illustrated below with photos.

Over 1/2 term. Exeter library hosted an event for children that used the raspberry pi camera to make a video of a puppet theatre. The top photo was of a screen displaying the result of this work. It looked pretty good and all achieved with the help of the PI.

Tom Brough recently aquired a doodle bot, which is using an Arduino based system to draw. The picture is of the bot, the holder at the front is for the pen.

A pi set up. This was used by several people through out the event, python programming, and by myself to give a quick demo of scratch.

The chimer, which will be familiar to regular pi jam visitors has now been expanded further.

This is another ones of Tom Broughs projects, Helicopter game, which was also demoed at the Torbay jam. This has now been set up on my pi too, but Tom helped me get bluetooth support up and running.

As mentioned, hopefully see more people at the next event, you never know who will come or what will be demoed, and as a result you could mis out on some real gems of projects.

Next Exeter jam is 22nd March, The next Torbay Jam is 8th March ( please see the previous jams page for a write up of the Torbay Pi jam for Feb.)

See you at the next jam.
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Next Pi jam

Posted on 2014-02-17 by Paul Sutton

The next Pi jam is Saturday 22nd in Exeter, 10 – 12

The next Paignton Pi jam is 8th March 13:00 to 15:00

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EXETER PI JAM 25/1/2014

Posted on 2014-01-25 by Paul Sutton

EXETER PI JAM 25/1/2014

A few photos from the pi jam.

I demoed a qr code to turtle graphics program which got fixed on the day thanks to Tom Brough. So now that is working. Or at the point were I need to iron out a few things.

For more info please visit my website.

Toms latest project, wii controlled and a car racing game

Music player

Controlled car hack, rc car + pi.

Robot arm.

Another great pi jam, lots of cool demos, and especially more children / young people programming, which is what the pi is all about.

Big thank you to Simon at Exeter library for organising the event. 🙂

Subscribe to http://piweekly.net/ for information on upcoming jams, pi news and other articles relating to the world of raspberry pi.
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PI jam Exeter 23/11/2013

Posted on 2013-11-23 by Paul Sutton

Just got back from the Pi jam in Exeter. Below are some photos / notes from the event.

Video

What the event is all about, the Raspberry Pi.

Upon arrival simon had already set up an interesting demo,

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This project is essentially a frame and windchimes, being sounded by some motors with wire sticking up, so that when the motor rotates, it hits the chime, this is all controlled via a raspberry pi, the laptop I think is there to provide a remote link to the Pi.

Video

The Lego mindstorms robot made its regular appearance.

The website for this is here : http://fullmeasure.co.uk/legoroversdevon

But on a related note these links may be of interest.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/brickpi/

http://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi.html

This is a hacked radio controlled car with a onboard pi and bluetooth.

Tom brough demonstrated his ball tracking robot and also the wii board controlling the same robot.

Tom’s Robot powered by a Pi

This robot can also be controlled via a wii board.

Mini Mini Maker Faire

Posted on 2013-11-17 by simon

Earlier today, Raspberry Pi enthusiast, Amy Mather posted a tweet about a Mini Mini Maker Faire, which is aimed to inspire under 18s to get involved with the Maker culture.

Amy is conducting a survey on when the time is best and if people can help, there is also more information regarding the Mini Mini Maker Faire on the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eGMLtlnM-DFEhVZ2PfUmcU5di8V-_xRSEu5kijcWI4c/viewform

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One millionth Raspberry Pi sold in the UK

Posted on 2013-11-02 by simon

Recently The Raspberry Pi foundation celebrated the manufacturing and sales of the one millionth Raspberry Pi. Here is a short article and video from CBBC newsround about the Raspberry Pi and people’s thoughts on it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24775878
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A Windows user saved!

Posted on 2013-10-27 by simon

Today I was asked about speeding up a Windows computer as it was being used as a backup PC, due to the user’s Mac undergoing repair.

I asked what operating system the PC was using so I could find appropriate tools to help speed it up. I was told that it was running Windows 7 and that it rarely gets used. I decided to suggest Zorin OS due to the look and feel of it.

The user does have a printer which is not supported with Linux but I suggested an alternative method of printing from it by using the Mac.

The user ended up going with Linux Mint and has chosen to erase Windows from the PC and replace it with Mint!

Overall I believe this was the best option as from being told it was rarely used I think Mint can breathe a new lease of life into this PC and be ideal for those basic tasks,
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Name revealed!

Posted on 2013-10-18 by simon

With the release of Ubuntu 13.10 yesterday (Thursday). Canonical have announced the next version of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, which will be called Trusty Tahr. The date of release for both server and desktop editions is scheduled for 17th April 2014.
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