One of the most popular projects we’ve featured here was Dave Hunt’s PiPhone . It’s a working mobile phone built around a Raspberry Pi; it does all the telephony you’d expect, but it’s a smart-ish phone, not a complete smart phone, which made some of you sad. In the year since the PiPhone was first built, Tyler Spadgenske has been beavering away at his own version, which improves on the original.
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TyFone – a DIY Smartphone
Thanks for bearing with us while we took the Easter break off – we return to you refreshed and full of chocolate. The marvellous Spencer Organ, one of our Certified Educators, is a teacher at King Edward VI Sheldon Heath Academy ( KESH Academy to its friends) in Birmingham. The school recently put on a student performance of The Wizard of Oz
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We represent the Lollipop League
The Young Innovators’ Club is a new initiative to promote engineering and tech education for school-aged children in Mongolia.
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The Young Innovators’ Club in Ulaanbaatar
Martin O’Hanlon is a co-author of Adventures in Minecraft which we featured back in November. The book’s full of incredible projects you can do with Minecraft, involving learning programming skills through building structures and interactive applications within the Minecraft world using the Python API provided in Minecraft: Pi Edition . We don’t know how he comes up with some of the ideas, and we’re amazed by what he shows can be achieved ( solar system in Minecraft , anyone?) but this one really blew us away
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Star Wars Episode 3.14: A New Hope
Meet Miguel Wattson (geddit?), the most piscine member of the Raspberry Pi community. Miguel is an electric eel who lives in a tank at the Tennessee Aquarium; and his keepers, with some help from some computer science interns, have decided to use Miguel’s tendency to generate electricity to do some showboating. Bzzzzt.
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Social animals: electric eel tweets with a Pi
Over at Instructables , Osprey22 (what’s your real name, 22? Let us know and I’ll add it to this post) is driving audio and eight strands of lights (plus a jolly twinkly star) from the same Raspberry Pi, so the two can be sequenced using some custom Python he’s written. Play to the end for a bit of Let it Go , if you’ve not heard it too many times this year already
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Christmas light sequencer
Andy Proctor drives a container delivery truck. He’s embedded a Raspberry Pi in the dashboard and turned the truck into an IoT device – saving time on updating his office on his movements, and learning Python and some electronics at the same time. Andy says on his blog : When we have the container loaded at the customer’s address we have to phone in and when it’s been unloaded do the same.
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iData Truck: an Internet of Things lorry
Liz: Andrew Mulholland is a first-year undergraduate student at Queen’s College Belfast, and the overall winner of 2014’s Talk Talk Digital Hero award. We’ve known him for a few years (he did work experience with us this summer – he created the Grandpa Scarer learning resource for us with Matt Timmons-Brown )
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Northern Ireland’s first Raspberry Jams
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been whetting your appetite for something new from Gert. How is Gert performing this magic ? He’s built a new add-on for your Raspberry Pi: the GertBot.
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Gertbot is here!
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