Ferran Fàbregas is organising the third Barcelona Raspberry Jam on Saturday, 11th March. The event runs from 10am-6pm and takes place at Soko Tech. Tickets are free, although there is an option to pay for a 3-hour arcade games controller…
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pi-top Champions Raspberry Pi workshops at the National Museum of Computing, Milton Keynes – 19th February
Recently, pi-top announced the Champions scheme in which certain individuals and teams were provided with a set of pi-top Ceeds to be used at events and workshops. Well, on Sunday, 19th February, several of us will be involved in giving workshops…
Raspberry Pi used as a Rubik’s Cube solving machine
Francesco Georg has used a Raspberry Pi, a Camera Module, LEGO bricks, some EV3 motors and a BrickPi add-on board to create this Rubik’s Cube solving robot. He figured out how to use a two-phase algorithm developed by Herbert Kociemba via a…
Leeds Raspberry Jam – 1st February
Claire Garside is organising another Leeds Raspberry Jam on Wednesday, 1st February. The event runs from 6-8pm and you can get tickets, and see the timetable, here.
Raspberry Pi goes to Scout camp
I’ve just been reading about Ben Nuttall’s adventures at Wintercamp, a Scouts activity camp run at Gilwell Park in Chingford, UK. He was there, along with a set of Pi-Top Ceeds, to run activities described as “a gentle introduction to…
Stafford Raspberry Jam and Code Club Mashup – 16th February
Code Club UK and Stafford Raspberry Jam are teaming up for an event on 16th February. The Thursday night event, which is being held at Stafford Library, runs from 6-8pm. It’s a chance to get involved with programming, making and…
Reading sensors remotely using an ESP8266 board and a Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames took a (cheap as chips) Wemos D1 mini (which has an onboard ESP8266 wifi chip), connected it up to an analog temperature sensor and then flashed a script to the board that would send the sensor readings to…
New issue of Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi out – build your own magic mirror, plus loads of other stuff!
Issue 54 of The MagPi is out now. There’s a huge feature on building your own magic mirror plus the usual mix of news, reviews, projects and editorials. You can download it here or buy it from The Pi Hut for…
West York Raspberry Jam – 13th February
Anne Carlill is organising the first West York Raspberry Jam on Monday, 13th February. The event, which runs from 5.15-7.15pm will take place at the Acomb Explore Library in York. Adults can bring up to two children. If you’d like to…
Raspberry Pi and Computing at School launch a new magazine for educators – Hello World!
Raspberry Pi has announced today the launch of a joint venture with Computing at School: a magazine designed for educators seeking help in the digital making environment. It is called Hello World and is available free from the Raspberry Pi website. It…