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Category Archives: Events

Exeter Pi jam – 22/02/2014

Posted on 2014-02-22 by Paul Sutton

As always an excellent mix of social activity,  techy talk and great demos.

Highlights are illustrated below with photos.

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Over 1/2 term.  Exeter library hosted an event for children that used the raspberry pi camera to make a video of a puppet theatre.   The top photo was of a screen displaying the result of this work.  It looked pretty good and all achieved with the help of the PI.

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Tom Brough recently aquired a doodle bot,  which is using an Arduino based system to draw.  The picture is of the bot, the holder at the front is for the pen.

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A pi set up.  This was used by several people through out the event, python programming,  and by myself to give a quick demo of scratch.

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The chimer, which will be familiar to regular pi jam visitors has now been expanded further.

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This is another ones of Tom Broughs projects,  Helicopter game, which was also demoed at the Torbay jam.  This has now been set up on my pi too,  but Tom helped me get bluetooth support up and running.

As mentioned,  hopefully see more people at the next event,  you never know who will come or what will be demoed, and as a result you could mis out on some real gems of projects.

Next Exeter jam is 22nd March,   The next Torbay Jam is 8th March ( please see the previous jams page for a write up of the Torbay Pi jam for Feb.)

See you at the next jam.
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Next Pi jam

Posted on 2014-02-17 by Paul Sutton

The next Pi jam is Saturday 22nd in Exeter,  10 – 12

The next Paignton Pi jam is 8th March 13:00 to 15:00

 
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PI jam Exeter 23/11/2013

Posted on 2013-11-23 by Paul Sutton

Just got back from the Pi jam in Exeter. Below are some photos / notes from the event.

 

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What the event is all about, the Raspberry Pi.

Upon arrival simon had already set up an interesting demo,

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This project is essentially a frame and windchimes,  being sounded by some motors with wire sticking up, so that when the motor rotates, it hits the chime,  this is all controlled via a raspberry pi, the laptop I think is there to provide a remote link to the Pi.

Video

 

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The Lego mindstorms robot made its regular appearance.

The website for this is here : http://fullmeasure.co.uk/legoroversdevon

But on a related note these links may be of interest.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/brickpi/

http://www.dexterindustries.com/BrickPi.html

PIcontrolledcar

This is a hacked radio controlled car with a onboard pi and bluetooth.

Tom brough demonstrated his ball tracking robot and also the wii board controlling the same robot.

Tom's Robot powered by a Pi

Tom’s Robot powered by a Pi

This robot can also be controlled via a wii board.

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Mini Mini Maker Faire

Posted on 2013-11-17 by simon

Earlier today, Raspberry Pi enthusiast, Amy Mather posted a tweet about a Mini Mini Maker Faire, which is aimed to inspire under 18s to get involved with the Maker culture.

Amy is conducting a survey on when the time is best and if people can help, there is also more information regarding the Mini Mini Maker Faire on the survey:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1eGMLtlnM-DFEhVZ2PfUmcU5di8V-_xRSEu5kijcWI4c/viewform

 

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Exeter LUG Meet 9th August

Posted on 2013-08-08 by simon

Exeter LUG Meet

Friday 9th August 7:30PM

Exwick Community Centre

Kinnerton Way

Exeter

EX4 2PR

 

PLEASE NOTE: THE MAIN HALL IS OUT OF ACTION DUE TO FLOOR REFURBISHMENT AND WE WILL BE IN THE MEETING ROOM, GO UP THE STAIRS, TURN LEFT INTO THE INTERNET CAFE, TURN LEFT AGAIN AND FOLLOW THROUGH THE DOORS.

Hot Drinks will not be available due to no kettle. If you would like a drink there  is a shop next to the Community Centre where drinks are sold.
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Paignton lug meet 13/7/2013

Posted on 2013-07-13 by Paul Sutton

 

 

LINUX USER GROUP MEETING PHOTOS

 

DEMO OF TOMS ROBOT

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Following the laser

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Follow the ball 1

robotandball2 robotandball

 

Follow the ball 2 and 3

What else happened

Raymond had a DOS batfile listing of a program to parse / search his telephone listing files, and wanted help to find a way to do the same thing in bash.

I sort of guessed this could be done with

DOS VS LINUX

find vs Grep

echo vs cat

Thought the following may be helpful

Advanced bash scripting guide

THE NEXT PAIGNTON MEET IS ON

10th August at Centre peace
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Exeter Raspberry Jam This Saturday!

Posted on 2013-06-18 by simon

Just a quick reminder that there is a Raspberry Jam in Exeter this Saturday (22nd June) at Exeter Central Library from 10AM – 12PM in the Hoskins Room.
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2nd Exeter Raspberry pi Jam

Posted on 2013-05-23 by Paul Sutton

Date : 22nd June 2013
Time : 10am – 12pm
Place : Exeter Central Library
Room : Hoskin’s Room
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