Here’s a Friday night quickie (no, we’re not nipping off to the pub unfortunately—we’re getting ready for tomorrow’s Manchester Raspberry Jam ). Ordering pizza can be such a chore
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PiePal: order a pizza at the push of a button
The blog’s rather late today but definitely worth the wait we think.
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Pi 3D scanner: a DIY body scanner
The Raspberry Pi is being used increasingly in professional products and industrial applications, and this one from Artica and partners is one of most impressive yet. I can’t better their own description of FM Stream as “ a beautiful, low cost, carrier grade rack of FM tuners, IP/Internet encoders and broadcasters, using nothing but RaspberryPis, Arduinos, clever electronics, neat mechanics, a shiny aluminium case and lots of passion.” FM Stream — shiny AND useful As well as being clever and beautiful, FM Stream does something extraordinarily useful – it takes radio signals from local radio stations and broadcasts them over the internet
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FM Stream: broadcasting local radio to the internet
Clive: We like wearable computers; we like music; but most of all we like wearing Blake’s 7 style gauntlets, playing air guitar and head banging. So we were delighted when Adam Smith-Kipnis of Team Hackcouture.io , a small team of technologists and designers “passionate about wearable computing”, got in touch to tell us about their recent win at a wearable computing hackathon. We were really impressed by the short development time and the amount of tech they managed to jam in, including RFID, accelerometers and conductive fabrics. Adam kindly says that the Raspberry Pi was “a core element of our success” and here he tells us a bit more about the hackathon and their winning entry: —- Smell the glove (Photo Credit: HackThings.com & Phil Kast) This past weekend at the Seattle Interactive Conference, AT&T hosted a ‘wearable computing’ themed hackathon competition. On Tuesday night, team Hackcouture.io was awarded first place with our invention of a mobile, gesture detecting fabric glove, paired with our own air guitar iPhone app.
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Gesture detecting air guitar glove with added head banging goodness
The Lotter brothers have reached Cairo on their epic overland trip to South Africa . (N.B.
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The Lotter brothers reach Cairo, first ARM/Raspberry Pi workshop in Africa a success!
Chris Roffey, creator of the most excellent Coding Club books, got in touch to tell us about the 2013 UK Beaver Computing Competition .
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2013 UK Beaver Computing Competition: an introduction to computational thinking for 10-18 year olds
Universidad Galileo (Galileo University) in Guatemala have launched a free, Spanish language MOOC (Massive Open Online Course**) titled “ Introducción a Raspberry Pi “. The University says (via my rubbish tourist Spanish, sorry): In this course, students will get to know the Raspberry Pi and learn what it can do; which [Linux] distributions are available; how to develop simple applications using Python; and how to control external devices using the GPIO interface. The emphasis is on theory first, then demonstrations and ultimately the student is encouraged to reinforce their learning by first replicating and then improving what they’ve been shown.
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Introduction to the Raspberry Pi: free online course in Spanish starts October 14th
Apologies for the late post today—I started playing about with Coder this afternoon and kind of got side tracked for four hours because it’s quite wonderful. (By ‘playing’ of course I mean carrying out an Educational Evaluative Assessment.) Coder turns your Raspberry Pi into a mini web server that allows you to create web content using HTML, CSS and JavaScript via a browser-based IDE.
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Google Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi
The first question people usually ask upon meeting me is, “Can you ride a pig?” I’ve never worked out if they mean in Minecraft or in real life.
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Raspberry Pi Minecraft server
You thought that we’d finished, didn’t you? You thought that I’d gone to bed to dream of building diamond cubes using nested loops
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Minecraft Snake arcade machine