Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi Wired.co.uk University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi . Just funded on Kickstarter, the £24 board runs an adapted version of Python known as …
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Micro Python: more powerful than Arduino, simpler than the Raspberry Pi – Wired.co.uk
I had an email on Monday morning from someone whose job title is “Witch Doctor/Marketing Specialist” from wedü , a US marketing agency. He introduced a talking skull called Yorick in the first line.
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Yorick, the talking skull
DIY Raspberry Pi : AirPi climate sensor The Sunshine Coast Daily Connecting a series of pollution and climate sensors to the Pi and writing a Python programme to recognise and track these levels, the duo then uploaded the results onto a website that others can add their local data, too.
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DIY Raspberry Pi: AirPi climate sensor – The Sunshine Coast Daily
Universidad Galileo (Galileo University) in Guatemala have launched a free, Spanish language MOOC (Massive Open Online Course**) titled “ Introducción a Raspberry Pi “. The University says (via my rubbish tourist Spanish, sorry): In this course, students will get to know the Raspberry Pi and learn what it can do; which [Linux] distributions are available; how to develop simple applications using Python; and how to control external devices using the GPIO interface. The emphasis is on theory first, then demonstrations and ultimately the student is encouraged to reinforce their learning by first replicating and then improving what they’ve been shown.
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Introduction to the Raspberry Pi: free online course in Spanish starts October 14th
I met Akira Ouchi – or Akkie , as he prefers to be known (his site’s in Japanese, but you can use an auto-translation service) at the Big Raspberry Jam in Tokyo back in May. Although we didn’t have much, if any, language in common (besides Python), we became friends instantly.
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Akkie, and the 101 things you can do with a CD-ROM drive’s eject function
Raspberry Jam The UK Python community are holding a Raspberry Jam in Coventry as part of their annual PyConUK conference on Sunday 22nd September and we would love you and your children to attend.
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Raspberry Jam, Coventry Sunday 22nd September
Katherine Scott, newly equipped with a Raspberry Pi camera board, was looking for an image processing challenge. She realised she had an unused panoramic lens for an iPhone rolling around in a drawer somewhere at home, and got to work with the silly putty and cardboard to hook it up to the camera board.
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Dewarping 360° images from the Pi camera board
I met Craig Richardson at Nottingham Maker Faire and we got to talking about teaching using Raspberry Pi Minecraft. For a while I’d harboured a plan to write some proper teaching resources for it and had scribbled a few notes but hadn’t had time to develop it. Craig had had the same idea – yes, it was just like Darwin and Wallace – and we decided to get our heads together.
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Learning Python using Codecademy and Raspberry Pi Minecraft: a resource of great note
Raspberry Pi Mineday is upon us and there’s just time before Liz comes back and kicks me off for messing about to get in a few posts about one of my pet subjects — learning through play. In this case, learning through playing Minecraft. Hurrah! I can sometimes be found playing the Xbox version in a darkened room, rocking gently and mumbling, “Why dig when you can code
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Monday is Minecraft day. Is everybody happy? You bet your life we are!
First of all, thank you to everybody who sponsored us on yesterday’s London to Cambridge bike ride in support of Breakthrough Breast Cancer. We got to the end unscathed, Eben “won” by sprinting away from the rest of the pack about five miles out at Duxford, and many cereal bars and bananas were consumed. If you’d still like to sponsor us, you can do so at JustGiving
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The Pi Pong clock