Digital People in Peterborough are organising a whole day of STEM activities on Saturday, 1st October from 10am to 4pm. There will be demos and exhibits, workshops and talks all revolving around Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics topics. It’s completely free,…
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A sunrise lamp of astounding blinkiness run by a Raspberry Pi
Florian has trouble waking up in the mornings. So much so that he decided to create himself a ‘sunrise clock’, but not just any sunrise clock! This one measures almost two metres tall and is a full multimedia experience. It…
Use a micro:bit and your Raspberry Pi to cause earthquakes in Minecraft
Martin O’Hanlon is a Minecraft programming guru and he’s come up with a great method of using a micro:bit to generate earthquakes inside Minecraft: Pi Edition. You hook one of your micro:bit’s pins up to a GPIO pin on the…
Newhaven Raspberry Jam – 23rd October – #rjam
Hugh Barnard & Dan Powell are organising a Raspberry Jam in Newhaven, Sussex on Sunday the 23rd October. The event will take place at the Hillcrest Community Centre between 11am and 2pm and there will be Raspberry Pis to try things…
Building an air drum kit with a Raspberry Pi and Wii controllers
David Pride, who previously created the wonderful motorised Connect 4 game (which handed me my butt at the Big Birthday Weekend), recently went to a car boot sale and found an “air drum” kit for £1. Taking this as inspiration, he…
Connect your Raspberry Pi to the Internet using an Ethernet cable
San Diego based Dave Johnson had a problem: he was due to be using his Raspberry Pi to demonstrate IoT applications using Node.js in a speaking engagement. This meant that he needed to be able to connect the Raspberry Pi to…
Raspberry Pi Foundation to hold Pi Towers Raspberry Jam on 15th October – #rjam
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is holding a Raspberry Jam on Saturday 15th October at their headquarters on Station Road in Cambridge, UK. The event, running from 10am-4pm, will be a mixture of worksheet-led, expert-assisted activities and Show and Tell. They are…
Wearable blinky dress reacts to touches via a Raspberry Pi
Shaky snapchat vid of actual operation A video posted by Clodagh O’Mahony (@yodaomahony) on Aug 29, 2016 at 12:45pm PDT You know how much I love art projects? This is a good one! Thanks to Alex at the Foundation for…
Raspberry Pi Foundation Glasgow Raspberry Jam – 8th October – #rjam
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is running a Raspberry Jam at the Google Digital Garage based at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow on Saturday 8th October. The event, which will run from 10am-4pm will feature worksheet-led activities with help from experts and a…
Why do kids need to learn to code? A talk by Cat Lamin at PyConUK
Cat Lamin is a former primary school teacher who now makes a living sharing her knowledge of education, particularly as it relates to computer science. She founded the Coding Evenings movement and is a regular at Raspberry Jams in the…