For those of you who don’t already know, we have decided to postpone Pi Wars 2020 for the time being due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The full statement can be read here.
Pi Wars 2020 postponed
Category: Events
Potton Pi & Pints Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 23rd November, 2019 from 1pm-5pm
Fancy doing some Raspberry Pi, Arduino or micro:bit stuff in a relaxed, social atmosphere? Fancy a chat with fellow geeky-type people? Fancy finding out about the Raspberry Pi and other boards from first principles? Then, the “Potton Pi & Pints”…
Thorpe Raspberry Jam (near Norwich) – 9th November
Norwich gets a Raspberry Jam on the 9th November at Thorpe St Andrew School from 10am-1pm. It’s packed with workshops and admission is free. You can find out more and get tickets here.
Potton Pi & Pints – free Raspberry Jam – Saturday, 6th July
Myself and Tim are holding a Raspberry Jam in Potton, Bedfordshire, on Saturday, 6th July. The Jam, which runs from 1pm-5pm is a family-friendly event that just happens to be held upstairs in a pub! It is an informal Jam in…
Cotswold Raspberry Jam – Saturday 18 May – Get your free tickets to one of the best Raspberry Jams in the country!
Cotswold Jam is running again on Saturday 18 May 1-4pm in Cheltenham. There’s two floors of hands-on robots, retro gaming, show & tell projects and tutorials, including Minecraft coding. One of their more unusual workshops this time is a session…
Be a volunteer at Pi Wars and help us to celebrate Raspberry Pi robotics! – 30th & 31st March
The last weekend of March sees the 5th Pi Wars competition. Teams from all over the world will come together in Cambridge, UK and compete against each other on seven challenge courses, hoping to earn points, prizes and glory. You…
Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam – 19th January – So, you got a Pi for Christmas… what next?
Did Santa bring you something small, square-ish and green? Are you not sure what to do next? Need some inspiration? Want to see what others get up to with their Raspberry Pis? Come along to the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam…
Cotswold Raspberry Jam – THIS Saturday afternoon
This Saturday 24 November sees Cotswold Raspberry Jam in Cheltenham, 1-4pm. Free tickets are available from: http://cotswoldjam.org The event includes the Astro Pi Mission Zero tutorial where you can get your code running on the International Space Station! If you’re under 14,…
Fireworks display using the Pimoroni Mote on the Raspberry Pi
This is a nice little project that I wrote the code for a couple of Sundays ago. It uses the Pimoroni Mote (full kit) to appear as fireworks and then uses Pygame to play the sound of fireworks as each Mote…
EMF Camp mobile GSM network powered by Raspberry Pis
A couple of weeks ago, it was announced that the EMF Camp badge for this year would be a fully-enabled GSM mobile phone. EMF Camp set-up their own GSM/mobile network for the badges to work on and each of the…