{"id":10798,"date":"2014-08-18T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T10:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10798"},"modified":"2014-08-18T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T10:15:30","slug":"southend-on-sea-raspberry-jam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10798","title":{"rendered":"Southend-on-Sea Raspberry Jam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-kWCS516UPe4\/U_GzNblR7FI\/AAAAAAAAPpQ\/8H8BKt_BVG4\/w958-h719-no\/IMG_20140816_131120%3Anopm%3A.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, I attended the Southend Raspberry Jam. It was great fun and it was nice to meet new people as well as bump into some familiar faces. The guys at\u00a0Southend-on-Sea Linux User Group did a great job of organising all the talks and the central room where there was lots of show-and-tell. Nice to see a good amount of youngsters getting stuck in with Minecraft and especially Sonic Pi v2.<\/p>\n<p>I attended a few of the talks, some of which were Pi-related, some of which were more to do with microcontrollers, and then embarked on some show-and-tell of my own. This was my table:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-xm8EK-sUA9M\/U-9uqE0zXUI\/AAAAAAAAPh0\/h-aabeS0Ybc\/w958-h719-no\/20140816_154538.jpg?resize=560%2C420&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can see lots of things here &#8211; my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?cat=37\" target=\"_blank\">Picorder <\/a>is in the middle (I really ought to do a proper case for it now it&#8217;s finished!), Zach Igielman&#8217;s\u00a0PiPiano board (it&#8217;s the one with all the red buttons &#8211; coming soon to Kickstarter), a few <a href=\"http:\/\/rasp.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">RasPiO<\/a> boards and, of course, Ryan Walmsley&#8217;s TurtlTeck (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/ryanteckltd\/turtlteck\" target=\"_blank\">which is a standalone robotics product currently running on Kickstarter<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I think my Project of the Jam was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterOnion\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Onion<\/a>&#8216;s huge LED matrix display. 4 LED matrices all connected together (and to the Pi) and at one stage running an\u00a0implementation of Conway&#8217;s Game of Life, written in C. (Wish I&#8217;d got a video! I couldn&#8217;t stop watching it!).<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-E2q5KqwZ27I\/U_BRB6e6OHI\/AAAAAAAACrQ\/olV_aODyldU\/s1600\/IMG_20140816_132014.jpg?resize=560%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Average Man<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a pictorial guide to the Southend Jam, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com\/2014\/08\/the-southend-on-sea-raspberry-pi-jam.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Average Man&#8217;s blog post about the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I attended the Southend Raspberry Jam. It was great fun and it was nice to meet new people as well as bump into some familiar faces. 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