Pat Peters (such a wonderful Marvel-sounding name) recently shared his take on the Weasley Clock , a device that hangs on the wall of The Burrow, the rickety home inhabited by the Weasley family in the Harry Potter series.
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Harry Potter and the Real-life Weasley Clock
In collaboration with Professor Frank Kelly and the environmental scientists of King’s College London, artist Kasia Molga has created Human Sensor – a collection of hi-tech costumes that react to air pollution within the wearer’s environment. Commissioned by Invisible Dust , an organisation supporting artists and scientists to create pieces that explore environmental and climate change, Molga took to the streets of Manchester with her army of Human Sensors to promote the invisible threat of air pollution in the industrial city.
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Human Sensor
Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi Picademy New Dates And Location Announced Geeky Gadgets Raspberry Pi enthusiasts might be interested to know that the official Raspberry Pi Foundation has this week announced more details about the ongoing Raspberry Pi Picademy including new dates and locations. The Raspberry Pi Picademy is a free two-day ..
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Raspberry Pi Picademy New Dates And Location Announced – Geeky Gadgets
A group of people from CERN is using their spare time to build Cosmic Pi , a cosmic ray detector based on a Raspberry Pi.
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A Raspberry Pi cosmic ray detector from folk at CERN
When I first joined the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over a year ago now, one of my first assignments was to build a weather station around the Raspberry Pi. Thanks to our friends at Oracle (the large US database company), the Foundation received a grant not only to design and build a Raspberry Pi weather station for schools, but also to put together a whole education programme to go with it.
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Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools
Ben here: I’m on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. As part of our outreach work I’m visiting the USA next month, where I could be visiting your school or hackspace. Standing in front of people talking about Raspberry Pi
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Ben’s Raspberry Pi US Tour – August 2014
After a lot of swearing and arguing, we have managed to boil down nearly 700 entries to just ten winners. It was a very hard decision, and if you didn’t win please don’t feel too disheartened; we had some really exceptional entries for this competition and found it really hard to come to a final decision. As you’ll remember if you entered, we were looking for camera projects which would involve the winners in writing some software and doing something interesting with the cameras.
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Camera competition winners!