{"id":13529,"date":"2015-10-10T16:38:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2015-10-10T16:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T15:38:39","slug":"fun-at-maker-faire-berlin-for-one-raspberry-pi-enthusiast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13529","title":{"rendered":"Fun at Maker Faire Berlin for one Raspberry Pi enthusiast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21777316669_8406bfd9c3_k-500x333.jpg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Mitchell, who runs the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/raspjamberlin\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Raspberry Jam<\/a>, represented all things Raspberry Pi at the recent Maker Faire Berlin. He had put together a stall full of Raspberry Pi-related projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motorised spinning flower<\/li>\n<li>Jedi or Sith detector<\/li>\n<li>Conway\u2019s Game of Life demo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/products\/sense-hat\/\">Sense HAT<\/a> demo<\/li>\n<li>Internet Connected Goal: with camera, thermal printer and Twitter<\/li>\n<li>Tweeting Photobooth<\/li>\n<li>Robots: Line-following and Wiimote-controlled<\/li>\n<li>Workstations with Minecraft, Scratch and Sonic Pi<\/li>\n<li>Timelapse Cameras<\/li>\n<li>Cheer Light Demo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He spoke to loads of people and even won an award for his efforts. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/maker-faire-berlin-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">read about his exploits on the Foundation&#8217;s blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/21952116442_02313eefa0_k-467x700.jpg?resize=467%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Mitchell, who runs the Berlin Raspberry Jam, represented all things Raspberry Pi at the recent Maker Faire Berlin. He had put together a stall full of Raspberry Pi-related projects: Motorised spinning flower Jedi or Sith detector Conway\u2019s Game of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13529\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[19,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-maker-faire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fun at Maker Faire Berlin for one Raspberry Pi enthusiast - 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=13529\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fun at Maker Faire Berlin for one Raspberry Pi enthusiast - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James Mitchell, who runs the Berlin Raspberry Jam, represented all things Raspberry Pi at the recent Maker Faire Berlin. 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