Southend Raspberry Jam 11

Today I travelled down to Southend on Sea to attend my first Southend Raspberry Jam, unfortunately this involved leaving home at some unreasonable hour on a Saturday.  The Jam was held at the The Hive Enterprise Centre (formerly the old central library).   

There were plenty of cool show and tell projects to look at,  some workshops and interesting talks.

I took some I took the Mega:bit and Micro Simon along.  I spent most of my time talking to people about my projects, however I did manage to have a look at the other projects on show.

My projects on display.



FabLab Essex had lots of interesting 3D printed / laser cut examples on display.



Barry Byford with his cool microbit powered big button game on show.



Neil Lambeth with his awesome football robots.



Nevil Hunt with his zbit:connect projects on show. 



A nice prize winning PiWars robot.



Some rather cool Raspberry Pi projects on show.



Some more pictures can be found on my Flickr page.   

14th Egham Raspberry Jam

On Sunday 30th April I travelled down Egham to attend the 14th Egham Raspberry Jam, it's my third time I have attended this particular jam. It was held at the Gartner UK HQ offices, which was easy to find and had plenty of parking. There were plenty of cool show and tell projects to look at, but no workshops or talks.

I took some awesome Boldport club projects and a colour mixing Raspberry Pi project along.  I spent most of my time talking to people about my projects, however I did manage to have a look at the other projects on show.

Some of my projects on display.

A collection of awesome Boldport Club projects.   



My colour mixing Raspberry Pi project.



A nice collection of Zbit boards from Nevil Hunt.



A couple of Raspberry Pi powered robots.



A nice collection of projects made by David Sweeney.



 Musical Octopus, using the awesome Makey Makey board.



Matt Sendorek's Raspberry Pi controlled Maplin robot arm.



Some more pictures can be found on my Flickr Page.

13th Egham Raspberry Jam

On Sunday 22nd January I travelled down Egham to attend the 13th Egham Raspberry Jam, it's my second time I have attended this particular jam. It was held at the Gartner UK HQ offices, which was easy to find and had plenty of parking. There were plenty of cool show and tell projects to look at, but no workshops or talks.

I took a couple of micro:bit projects and my Christmas decoration project along. I spent most of my time talking to people about my projects, however I did manage to have a look at the other projects on show.

Some of my projects on display.

Zbit:bod

A nice collection of Zbit boards from Nevil Hunt.

Musical Octopus, using the awesome Makey Makey board.


IoT controlled Sense hat by Nigel Stirzaker.


Scratch controlled Lego train.


RetoPie by Albert Hickey.


Some more pictures can be found on my Flickr page. 

CamJam December 2016

On Saturday 3rd December  I travelled up to Cambridge to attend another excellent CamJam.  I had a good look around the market place as well as some of the show and tell items.

Trevor Olsson had brought along his latest project. A full size traffic light complete with a pedestrian crossing signal and button.  The traffic light and pedestrian button were connected to a gPiO control box with a simple Scratch program running on Raspberry Pi.

Tony Goodhew had some interesting projects on display, one showing how charlieplexing worked and one called a bigger project.  This had two Raspberry Pi's connected together wirelessly using the NRF24L wireless modules allowing one to control the other.   The first Raspberry Pi had Blinkt! HAT with some Python software which allowed you to change the colours, this was transmitted wirelessly to the second Raspberry Pi which had a Sense HAT showing the colours and a numeric display. 



David Saul had a nice collection of his recent Kickstarter Tempus Fugit WordClock and a Twitter controlled Christmas jumper.



Steve Upton had a large scale LED wall, made using strips of Neopixels. It was running Space Invaders and had some scrolling graphics.



Jonathan Pallant had a rather nice project called Xmas Pi, it was controlled by a Raspberry Pi and used some Neopixels.




Phil Willis had Fritz and a couple of robots on display.





Workshops

I helped out with the SenseHAT workshop.  The attendees got to learn about the Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT and do some Python programming.

12th Egham Raspberry Jam

On Sunday 16^th October I travelled down Egham to attend the 12th Egham Raspberry Jam, it's my first time I have attended this particular jam.  It was held at the Gartner UK HQ offices, which was easy to find and had plenty of parking. There were plenty of cool show and tell projects to look at, but no workshops or talks.  

I took a couple of BBC micro:bit projects and my Raspberry Pi trick or treat detector project along. I spent most of my time talking to people about my projects, however I did manage to have a look at the other projects on show.


My Show n Tell projects.

Nevil Hunt had several nice BBC micro:bit projects on display.



A nice haunted house.



Raspberry Pi machine which dispensed pancakes complete with jam.




Acorn electron with Raspberry Pi and Arduino inside.



Matt Sendorek's Raspberry Pi controlled Maplin robot arm.



Carl Monk's Breakout Clone.




Some more pictures can be found on my Flickr page.

CamJam September 2016

I traveled up to Cambridge on Saturday 17th September to attend another excellent CamJam.   I arrived early to help setup, this meant leaving home at an unreasonable hour for a Saturday.   I chatted to several people who had some interesting Show and Tell stuff and looked to see what was on offer in the Marketplace.  Rapid Electronics, PiBorg, 4tronix and Pimoroni were selling stuff, though I didn’t buy anything.

Spencer Organ had his excellent  Raspberry Pi/Arduino timelapse camera on display.  

Philip Organ had his brilliant Raspberry Pi powered Pokemon Pokedex on display.  




Martin Mander had some cool projects on display.

1981 Portable VCR Raspberry PI Media Centre


1970s Raspberry Pi Amazon AlexaPhone


Rabbit Pi


The Raspberry Pi Batinator


David Saul had his Tempus Fugit WordClock, PI-LCD and PiMUxClock projects on display. 




Albert Hickey had his brilliant buttonflash game on display.




Phil Willis with Fritz.


Laura Trevail had several interesting IoT projects on display.



The Suttles had some interesting Raspberry Pi projects on display.




Workshops

I helped out with Exploring the real world with sensors workshop. The camjam edukit 2 was provided along with copies of the worksheets so people could try some of the examples.

Talks

I only attended a couple of talks, first up

Philip Organ spoke about the development of his Rasperry Pi/Arduino timelapse camera. Next up was Philip Organ who spoke about the building of his Pokemon Pokedex project.  

Finally Jim Darby spoke about using USB on-the-go on the Raspberry Pi from easy add-on to clustering.

CamJam 12th September 2015

On Saturday 12^th September I travelled up to Cambridge to attend another excellent CamJam.  I had a good look around the market place as well as some of the show and tell items.

Brian Corteil had his Digital Zoetrope which used 12 oled displays, this was very cool.  He also had a couple of prototype bits from the Digital Zoetrope project on display.

Jarle Teigland had a couple of projects on display, including a Sense HAT, a TiddlyBot robotic kit and a CodeBug which is a cute, programmable and wearable device designed to introduce simple programming and electronic concepts to anyone.

Barry Byford had some interesting Bluetooth projects on display. The tracking Bluetooth beacons showed the signal strength of two Bluetooth beacons depending on how far away they were from the receiving device. 

David Saul had PiMuxClock and Pi-LCD projects on display. The PiMuxClock is basic Raspberry Pi add-on allowing you create a simple digital clock and temperature display.  I brought a PiMuxClock bare PCB from David. The Pi-LCD is simple LCD interface for your Raspberry Pi which has been launched today as Kickstarter project. 

Peter Onion had his awesome LED matrix display on show, it used 4 32 x 32 RGB LED panels connected together running off a Pi.  It was running Tetris.

Phil Willis was showing of the TractorBot which he and Keith entered in the recent CamJam PiWars competition. 

Robin Newman had a Sonic Pi demo on display using an IQaudIO board and a Raspberry Pi DSI touch screen running Sonic Pi controlling Minecraft.

gPiO had their gPiO control box and had some example primary school projects on display.

Workshops

I had agreed to do some Jam Making, not making Jam but it’s the term used for people who volunteer at CamJam. I helped out with the hacking sessions which were taking in place in the library.  Some Pi’s were setup to allow people to try stuff out and have a go.

Talks

I only attended one talk given by Cat Lamin. Cat talked about running Coding Evenings for teachers and non-teaching staff.