This weekend I decided it was time to try out the rather exciting CamJam EduKit 3 – Robotics I admit that I’ve been avoiding having a go because I was terrified of everything going wrong, so this weekend I called my friend and we embarked on our first robot building exercise. So…in the kit areContinue reading “CamJam EduKit 3 – Part 1”
Category Archives: Raspberry Pi
Updated Scratch/PiStop Resource for NuScratch
With the release of Raspbian Jessie and a built in GPIO Scratch server, I’ve updated my beginner’s PiStop and Scratch worksheet for use with the newest Pi OS. This worksheet is designed to be used as an introduction to inputs an outputs and requires some discussion from a teacher or workshop leader about how youContinue reading “Updated Scratch/PiStop Resource for NuScratch”
A Raspberry Pi Scratch Resource
Tomorrow I will be running a workshop for MozFest, a massive community event in London organised by Mozilla. Young Raspberry Pi enthusiast, PiNet creator and all round evil genius Andrew Mulholland somehow found himself organising a Rasperry Pi Zone at the event (I definitely had no involvement in this whatsoever) and so he coerced/bullied meContinue reading “A Raspberry Pi Scratch Resource”
Egham Jam & Picademy Round 2
As some of you may have noticed from my twitter, I’ve recently been invited to talk a couple of times about the things I’ve been doing since I attended Picademy last year. Firstly, I went to Egham Jam and met the lovely Albert Hickey, as well as a bunch of lovely and enthusiastic Pi people.Continue reading “Egham Jam & Picademy Round 2”
Raspberry Pi – an idiots guide to installing Raspbian on a Mac
So, once again I need to admit my ignorance… A few weeks ago, my friend borrowed my SD card ‘to take an image’ and somehow corrupted it – I don’t know how and neither does he, but he did managed to back up all my files. So, I’ve not used my home Pi for aContinue reading “Raspberry Pi – an idiots guide to installing Raspbian on a Mac”
Sonic Pi
One of the things I was shown at Picademy, was Sonic Pi. At the time I thought it was a great resource, but too difficult for me. Since then, I was lucky enough to meet creator, Sam Aaron and persuade (ok..bully) him to visit my school and run an all day workshop about the software.Continue reading “Sonic Pi”
The PiStop
I’ve realised that I haven’t yet written a blog post about my favourite bit of kit for the Raspberry Pi, the PiStop by 4Tronix. So first lets talk about why I like it so much then I’ll talk through a demo of using it. Earlier in this blog, I talked about the CamJam EduKit andContinue reading “The PiStop”
Astro Pi Competition
Yesterday I was lucky enough to attend the Raspberry Pi third birthday party event in Cambridge. While I was there I took the opportunity to talk to the lovely Dave Honess about the competition he is helping to run for Raspberry Pi in collaboration with the UK Space Agency, Astro Pi. The competition was launchedContinue reading “Astro Pi Competition”
Remote control your Pi using your Mac
This is the first of what will hopefully be a series of posts by me. There will be an emphasis on the more technical side of things but, with any luck, things will be explained in plain English. I like to think that even though I am a geek by day I can still seeContinue reading “Remote control your Pi using your Mac”
Coding Evening and BETT 2015
This week I decided to do something a little different – I’ve seen lots of people chatting about Raspberry Jams (meetups for Pi lovers), I’ve been to a Code Club meetup which had a lot of volunteers and not a lot of teachers and I’ve been to a CAS hub for teachers in Hammersmith. TheContinue reading “Coding Evening and BETT 2015”
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