BBC brings Manchester’s creative and digital industries together About Manchester he BBC’s Digital Cities returns to Manchester this February with a series of masterclasses, workshops and networking opportunities, for those looking to thrive …
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BBC brings Manchester’s creative and digital industries together – About Manchester
ZDNet UKFast plans to open Raspberry Pi cafes in Manchester schools ZDNet Students in the Raspberry Pi cafe at Broadoak school in Partington. Image credit: UKFast. UKFast, a cloud-hosting company based in Manchester, plans to invest £100,000 in opening another five Raspberry Pi cafes in schools in the Greater Manchester area ..
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UKFast plans to open Raspberry Pi cafes in Manchester schools – ZDNet
In case you missed it: in yesterday’s post , we released our Raspberry Jam Guidebook, a new Jam branding pack and some more resources to help people set up their own Raspberry Pi community events.
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Raspberry Jam round-up: April
Happy new year to everyone! We’re back with a new programme of Picademy events for 2017. All our UK events have been scheduled up to the end of the year, so you can look ahead and choose something at a location and date that is convenient. An educator gets to grips with our Camera Module For the uninitiated, Picademy is a free CPD programme that aims to give educators the skills and knowledge they need to get creative with computing, no matter what their level of experience.
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Our full 2017 schedule of UK Picademy events
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
Mad Fer It in Manchester It’s been a while since we blogged on all things Picademy, so here’s a quick update… For the uninitiated, Picademy is our free, two-day CPD event series for educators who want to use the Raspberry Pi for projects in the classroom.
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Picademy: New dates announced!
BetaNews Get started with Raspberry Pi BetaNews Getting started with the device is easy enough, and there's plenty of help and advice available on the Raspberry Pi Foundation's website, but if you want a simple, straightforward guide then Manchester based NeoMam Studios has put together an …
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Get started with Raspberry Pi – BetaNews
Alan O’Donohoe writes: I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our Raspberry Jam community for supporting our OCR Raspberry Jamboree, the second annual convention to share the educational potential of the Raspberry Pi community. I’d also like to thank our sponsors OCR, Pimoroni, CPC, Cyntech, ModMyPi, Exa Education, MathWorks, BCS Manchester, MagPi Magazine, Raspberry Pi Geek and Ciseco. In particular I also wish to thank Lisa Mather for organising an excellent party and Dawn Hewitson particularly for support with the hack day.
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Raspberry Jamboree 2014
Last month we released an animation called What is a Raspberry Pi? which explains why the Pi exists, what it’s all about and touches on some application we’ve seen – and we recently discovered a video which points out some great ideas for what you can do with yours! Everyone takes different kinds of inspiration before they start a Pi project – whether it’s following a guide in a book or online, seeing somebody else make something at a Jam or maker faire, or solving a real life problem and getting straight to it. Plenty of people like the idea of the Pi before they have a use for it – sometimes it’s nice just to be presented with some example applications and let one pique your interest
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What can you do with a Raspberry Pi?
The 2014 Raspberry Jamboree is coming up at the end of February.
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Raspberry Jamboree, Manchester 27 Feb – 1 Mar 2014