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A Kit A Month Soldering Subscription Service

Posted on 2015-02-22 by simon

CALLING ALL ELECTRONICS ENTHUSIASTS!

A company called Pocketmoneytronics who made the Raspberry Pi GPIO Christmas Tree in late 2014, have got a new Kickstarter campaign running called A Kit A Month.

A Kit A Month is a subscription service where you will subscribe and receive some easy to solder kits, such as a robot that has light up LED eyes powered off a 9V PP3 battery.
That’s not all, included in the parcel you will also receive some other components to experiment with, such as a bag with some LEDs and resistors.

I think this is a great service, as this is great to help people learn to solder while learning about electronics at the same time. I could see this also being useful in educational establishments such as running an after school electronics/solder club.

You can check out the campaign here

Exeter Raspberry Pi Jam 06/09/2014

Posted on 2014-09-06 by simon

Saturday 6th September 2014 saw another Raspberry Pi Jam in Exeter take place and what a great turnout there was!

At today’s Jam, there was lots of teaching going on with the introduction to Raspberry Pi course going on in the Fab Lab and there was even more teaching going on in the Meeting Room where the rest of the Jam took place. Continue reading →

Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 14th June 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

Another good meeting, for those who didn’t make it, here is a quick write up on all the goodies you missed out on.

Tom Brough demonstrated his Scratch game that can be controlled with a Wii mote. A full write up on how this works will be available at sometime in the future. You missed out on a real gem with this.

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Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 10th May 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

This is a pi jam, however we now have more Arduino based projects than actual Raspberry Pi’s, anyway the Jam is about learning, education etc so why not. Especially as the Arduino and Pi can work together. So maybe the jam should be a PI / Arduino jam instead.

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Torbay Raspberry Jam – 12th April 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

Again we had a mix of things going on, Tom Brough brought Bob along, with more improvements / enhancements from last time. He can walk and was set in guard dog mode, which those of you who attended the last Exeter Jam will know he just sits there until activated by movement detected by the ultrasonic sensor. Most of the enhancements are with the walking mechanism. Continue reading →

Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 8th March 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

Following on from last month, we one again had a good mix of projects on offer. Gordon Henderson brought the fuze box, a project to help get the pi in to schools, pi inside a custom case with keyboard, and a recess with built in breadboard and access to the gpio header, you also get a box of components with it. The main demonstration was of the built in fuze basic which is a more full featured version of return to basic written by Gordon Henderson. But written for the fuzebox. Continue reading →

Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 15th February 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

Another successful pi jam, Tom set up his latest project, on the pi, which uses a wii remote to control a helicopter flying over open street maps, this works very well and you can move around the map area, which was set for the locality of the Pi jam.

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Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 11th January 2014

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – By Paul Sutton

The 2^nd Raspberry pi jam in Torbay took place on the 11^th Jan at the Library. A few projects were demonstrated. One of the projects being demonstrated was by Tom Brough, he built a raspberry pi robot last year and has been adding enhancements etc to it ever since. The robot now has the ability to scan a printed qr code, store it’s contents and then read these back and then move around.

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Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam – 14th December 2013

Posted on 2014-06-17 by simon

A big thank you goes out to all who attended, helped and especially to Torbay Library services for all their help and Paignton Library for hosting us.