Tickets for the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam, which will be held on 12th September at the Institute of Astronomy, are now on sale. Just press the big blue “Book tickets” button on the CamJam homepage to be taken to Eventbrite!
Following feedback we have received, we are making workshop tickets available at the same time. Workshops at this Jam are as follows:
- Breadboards, Buttons and Bombs: using GPIO in Scratch game development
Join the team from HackLab as they lead you through the creation of a fun ‘Space Invaders’ style game in Scratch which responds to the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins to destroy an alien menace: wire up your own ‘Big Red Button’ to fire your doomsday weapon and save the planet! Aimed at kids 8-14, but anyone can come along. - Explore the Minecraft API with Javascript
Controlling Minecraft through Python is a great educational exercise. But what is going on behind the scenes? This workshop will introduce the communication channels software uses to exchange information locally or over the internet. We will explore the Minecraft API using the Node-RED flow-based programming environment. At the end of the workshop, you will be able to write small Javascript programs to control Steve and the world around him. There’s fun to be had! Age range and experience level: 10+, ideal for people who want to see the technology behind their previous experiments with Minecraft and Python. - Proximity Tracking with Bluetooth Beacons
In this workshop you will write a JavaScript program to scan for Bluetooth beacons and display their proximity relative to your Raspberry Pi using a series of LEDs. There is no age limit although this is targeted at an intermediate level as ideally attendees would be comfortable entering text code and debugging it. No previous experience of JavaScript or Bluetooth beacons is required.
There will be some other, smaller workshops running as well and more details on these will be released sometime next week.