{"id":12797,"date":"2015-06-22T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12797"},"modified":"2015-06-22T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:17:14","slug":"pi-wars-2015-announced-for-raspberry-pi-robotics-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12797","title":{"rendered":"Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/piwars.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Logo-v2-RGB-sm.jpg?resize=560%2C207\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the success of last year&#8217;s\u00a0event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a <strong>Pi Wars 2015<\/strong>! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December in Cambridge, UK.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge Raspberry Jam<\/a>\u00a0by myself and Tim Richardson. You can see a video of the announcement here:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LFZ3bhijm5Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\">More details, including a list of this year&#8217;s challenges, are available on the Pi Wars website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the important dates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Register your team<\/strong> &#8211; <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1010366819\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1st July-1st August<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Final teams selected<\/strong> &#8211; 14th August<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competition rules finalised<\/strong> &#8211; <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1010366821\"><span class=\"aQJ\">1st September<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information, such as general rules, will be made available <strong>this week<\/strong> on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pi Wars website<\/a>. You might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/piwars.org\/mailing-list\/\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for the mailing list to get notifications of updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of last year&#8217;s\u00a0event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! The exact date and venue have yet to be confirmed, but it is expected to be in early December&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12797\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,19,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-events","category-robotics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12797\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pi Wars 2015 announced for Raspberry Pi robotics teams - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following the success of last year&#8217;s\u00a0event, the Pi Wars team have announced that there will, indeed, be a Pi Wars 2015! 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