Les Pounder, who wrote the excellent Raspberry Jam coverage in this month’s Linux Format, has written a straightforward tutorial for creating a push-button operated camera with camera module and it’s bendy wendy cable. Read it here
Linux Format this month covers #RaspberryJam phenomenon
This month’s Linux Format UK magazine has the following articles for the Raspberry Pi:
- Short news piece on Eben Upton winning the silver medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.
- Short report from Manchester Raspberry Jam’s 1st anniversary meet-up.
- Review of the NOOBS system.
- 4-page feature on Raspberry Jams including interviews with Alan O’Donohoe, Ben Nuttall, Jack Wearden and… well… Me!
#RaspberryPi Camera module review and tutorial at TweakTown
Good, well-balanced review of the pros and cons of the camera over at TweakTown. There’s also a giveaway for those of you with camera modules already – just take a picture with it and enter the draw for a free Pi case. Read the review/tutorial guide here
Why programming matters with Clive Beale of the #RaspberryPi Foundation
Great video from the Activate Summit in London. Clive Beale, the Foundation’s director of educational development, talks to the conference about the importance of encouraging young people to explore coding and programming. He uses the Pi as an example of a toolkit to promote technological exploration.
Game of Life programming tutorial for the #RaspberryPi
Trevor Appleton has done a great tutorial on creating Conway’s Game of Life using Python and Pygame. This is a great idea for schools as it teaches children programming in general, algorithms, a little graphics and has a good, visual result.
Rescued pet bird gets a #RaspberryPi powered surveillance system
Jorge Rance has created a surveillance system to monitor an injured bird he rescued which tweets when different aspects of the environment need tweaking (e.g. a water level monitor). The Foundation just featured it on their front page (so hopefully his site will withstand the barrage of hits now headed his way).
He’s written a full tutorial on how to replicate his project and all the code has been released as open source so you can monitor your own pet!
I’m really hoping that schools pick this up to monitor classroom pets!