{"id":17865,"date":"2017-11-29T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17865"},"modified":"2017-11-29T14:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T13:51:26","slug":"new-christmas-themed-resources-from-the-raspberry-pi-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17865","title":{"rendered":"New Christmas-themed resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17866\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17866\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17866\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Code-a-Carol-TILE-500x348.png?resize=500%2C348&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Code-a-Carol-TILE-500x348.png?resize=500%2C348&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Code-a-Carol-TILE-500x348.png?resize=300%2C209&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Code-a-Carol-TILE-500x348.png?resize=260%2C181&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Code-a-Carol-TILE-500x348.png?resize=160%2C111&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scary carol singers<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Raspberry Pi&#8217;s Laura Sach has just announced that there are some new Christmas-themed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.raspberrypi.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resources<\/a>\u00a0available to get you into the festive spirit. I know, I know, it&#8217;s still November, but anyway!<\/p>\n<p>The first project is in Scratch and shows you how to build a memory game using Christmas jumpers. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.raspberrypi.org\/en\/projects\/jazzy-jumpers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look at that one here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second uses a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/products\/raspberry-pi-sense-hat-astro-pi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SenseHAT<\/a>\u00a0to create an advent calendar with lights you can &#8216;open&#8217; each day using the Pi&#8217;s clock to control access. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.raspberrypi.org\/en\/projects\/sense-hat-advent-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look here<\/a>. (Obviously, this will only be worthwhile from Friday onwards!)<\/p>\n<p>The next project teaches you how to use <a href=\"http:\/\/sonic-pi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonic Pi<\/a> through coding the Twelve Days of Christmas carol. <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.raspberrypi.org\/en\/projects\/code-a-carol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">For this project, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The last project is a bit more involved on the coding front and uses Python to help you to analyse a Twitter account for tweets made in the last year. By training a &#8216;classifier&#8217;, you can work out if the person who owns the account has been naughty or nice! <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.raspberrypi.org\/en\/projects\/naughty-and-nice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For their article on the resources, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/christmas-resources-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">go to Raspberry Pi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raspberry Pi&#8217;s Laura Sach has just announced that there are some new Christmas-themed\u00a0resources\u00a0available to get you into the festive spirit. I know, I know, it&#8217;s still November, but anyway! The first project is in Scratch and shows you how to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17865\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17866,"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":[17,39,42],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-17865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-programming","category-raspberry-pi","tag-christmas"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Christmas-themed resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation - 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=17865\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Christmas-themed resources from the Raspberry Pi Foundation - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Raspberry Pi&#8217;s Laura Sach has just announced that there are some new Christmas-themed\u00a0resources\u00a0available to get you into the festive spirit. 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