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PatternCraft

Carrie Anne looked over my shoulder when I was researching this post. “I love kids with tools.” These particular kids with tools are using traditional wooden mallets and punches to make a very special set of punchcards, which they’re reading with a Raspberry Pi that creates a CSV file of 0s and 1s, and then interprets that data in the Minecraft universe. This workshop project is the work of Gemma May Latham , a collaborative maker, and David Whale, who, with Martin O’Hanlon, wrote the most excellent Adventures in Minecraft

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PatternCraft

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Chelmsford Talk: The Raspberry Pi – Southgate Amateur Radio Club

Chelmsford Talk: The Raspberry Pi Southgate Amateur Radio Club Chelmsford Talk: The Raspberry Pi . On Tuesday, April 7 the Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society will have a presentation on the Raspberry Pi (RPi) computer board by Peter Onion G0DZB and David Whale, the talk is open to all.

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Chelmsford Talk: The Raspberry Pi – Southgate Amateur Radio Club

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Adventures in Minecraft

Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale will be familiar to many readers of this blog, whether from the excellent Raspberry Pi and Minecraft resources they’ve authored or from their work with schools, code clubs and Raspberry Jams. Now they’ve teamed up to write a fantastic new book, hot off the press this week. Adventures in Minecraft teaches young people to customise their Minecraft world with amazing structures and new gaming experiences, developing Python programming skills along the way.

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Adventures in Minecraft

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The world’s largest Raspberry Pi display?

David Whale, a STEM ambassador and all-round good egg, mailed me last week to tell me about a project he’d been involved in at Goodwood race course. The Greenpower Education Trust run an electric car series for schools and businesses, where students and staff build electric race cars, and compete in 4hr mileage marathons around the country. Essex Goblins 2013 They’ve been doing a lot of work with Raspberry Pis (many of the cars have a Raspberry Pi inside), and asked David if he could use a Raspberry Pi to populate a giant display at the Goodwood course with race information.

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The world’s largest Raspberry Pi display?

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