So, you may have seen on our twitter or elsewhere that we were a host centre for Young Rewired State’s Festival of Code 2014 . We had 6 young people join us at Pi Towers for a week: Ben, Rihanna, Amy, John, Finn and Dan.
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Young Rewired State – Festival of Code 2014
Liz: Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, makes a habit of finding interesting people for us to talk to. She works with the creative industries on supporting their work with the Pi, and introducing people who aren’t the usual maths/physics suspects to computing – and while she does that, she discovers some really amazing projects
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KittenGroomer/CIRClean – data security for journalists and activists
Coding music on a Raspberry Pi with Sonic Pi has quickly become a great way to learn programming concepts and to pump out some thumping beats. Last year I worked with Dr Sam Aaron , live coder and academic at the University of Cambridge, to teach KS3 pupils text-based programming on Raspberry Pis as part of their ICT & Computing lessons. Since then Sonic Pi has proved incredibly popular in classrooms worldwide.
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Sonic Pi Competition
Microsoft goes up against Raspberry Pi with $300 Sharks Cove board ITProPortal The firm is collaborating with Intel and hardware manufacturer CircuitCo to develop the $300 (£176) board, called Sharks Cove. Available now for pre-order, the project is described as a “development board that you can use to develop hardware and …
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Microsoft goes up against Raspberry Pi with $300 Sharks Cove board – ITProPortal
Liz: Regular readers will be very familiar with the name Dave Akerman. Dave has been sending Raspberry Pis to the stratosphere under weather balloons since we launched the Pi in 2012, and his work in helping schools develop their own in-house space programs has been fantastic to watch
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Pi in the Sky: hardware for high-altitude balloonists from Dave Akerman
Young Rewired State is a network of coders around the world. Every year an event is held in the UK to give young people the opportunity to collaborative while working on a project to make something interesting with open data, and to learn skills while exposed to new technologies. The Festival of Code is a week where volunteer-led centres around the country play host to local kids (18 and under) who work in teams, guided by mentors from industry, to create a software application, a web app, a game, a phone app or even a hardware hack that utilises an open data set to provide a solution to a real world problem.
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YRS Festival of Code 2014 – around the UK and at Pi Towers
I heard about plans for a new Indiegogo fundraiser last week.
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Solar-powered Raspberry Pi school
The Raspberry Pi is a favourite tool of security researchers, and we’ve seen a number of demonstrations of how important it is to secure your devices against attack that use it. (I got stopped in the queue for the cinema last week by someone who recognised me from this blog, and has been working in penetration testing with the Pi for a couple of years; the conversation I had with him was much more fun than the movie turned out to be.) Bugs in commercial software are open to exploits, and I have yet to see an exploit more enjoyable than this one, which takes advantage of a bug in the way Chromecast recognises wifi. Under normal use, the Chromecast can be sent a deauth command that disconnects it from wifi.
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Rickmote: Rickrolling Chromecast users
As you may have heard, the Boardroom at Pi Towers contains a wall covered in the poster competition entries from before Christmas 2013. We hold all our meetings in this room, and even run workshops in it during Picademy . It’s also fairly common knowledge that I have a short attention span, and that on occasion when I’m in the boardroom (I’m not going to admit how often in case Lance or Eben reads this!) I find my gaze and mind wandering over to that wall and I wonder if I can make any of those imagined Raspberry Pi project ideas a reality
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Hamster Party Cam
Building your own remote-controlled robot or car is a favourite activity for kids who are using a Pi to learn about programming and electronics.
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Steer a car. With cheese.