Liz Upton — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:56:40 +0000

On Saturday, the half of Cambridgeshire that wasn’t busy footling about in the sun descended on Cambridge Consultants’ offices, kindly lent to the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Jam folks for the afternoon, for a few hours’ Pi-wrangling. If you’d been there you’d have met a hearty slice of the Pi’s development team: JamesH (and his brother, which surprised and excited me because I’d always thought that James had hatched from an egg), Gert, James Adams, Eben and I were all hanging around and poking things. We had a great time, hooked up with some old friends and met some new ones.

There’s already a report on the day’s footling and poking available from Jonathan Pallant, and I have stolen this photograph from him. Click the picture (or here) to visit his site to read about the Jam.

Ryan picks a winner in the annual Cambridge Dress Like a Lumberjack competition

(I have also stolen Jonathan’s joke. I am not sorry. It’s better than any of mine.)

Huge thanks to Recantha for his hard work organising the Jam; I was really chuffed that one of the things I got to footle with/poke was his homebrew Tricorder, now equipped with pretty much every measuring device known to homo sapiens apart from a Geiger counter. Thanks also to Cambridge Consultants for the use of their space, and to everyone who gave talks and brought projects to share.

Please spread this Jam! You can find out where the Jams are every month in the MagPi, and on the events page of our forums; there’s also a calendar at the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Jams site (which Alan, the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Jambassador, promises me is due a makeover soon). If there isn’t one near you, why not try setting one up? There’s help available, and we can put you in touch with folk who will share their 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ一s and give you lots of advice on organising, publicising and all that good stuff. Leave a comment below, post in the forums, or mail me via the contact page if you’d like to be put in touch with Jam Central.

Recantha expects the next Cambridge Jam to be in September. We’re looking forward to seeing even more of you there!

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Liz Upton — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:36:39 +0000

Blimey, that was good. We spent Saturday with just under 300 of you at the Cambridge 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Jam. After an afternoon of talks and demos, we staged a takeover of West Cambridge’s pubs; there were enough 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pis spread out on the tables at The Punter to drive the robotics for a fairly large factory. Actually, there’s an idea…

We'd brought some 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pis to sell to the crowd; a few teachers bought classroom-sized sets. I'm still not used to the idea that 200 of the things fit on the front seat of the car. (Each of the large cardboard boxes here holds 50 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pis.)

Gert brought along a prototype camera board to show the crowd. We're hoping to release the final version, which will have a 5MP sensor, in the next few months.

Andrew Edney from Connected Digital World brought his camera again (thanks to Andrew for all the pictures in this post); he’s got a blog post with more pictures you should go and read as soon as you’ve finished this, and recorded the video below from the question and answer session the members of the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ一 did at the end of the Jam. (You’ll need to turn your speakers up.)

People kept asking us to sign stuff, which is nearly as weird as the way people keep sticking microphones up our noses.

Rory Cellan-Jones from the BBC did a quick interview with Eben, in which Eben’s arm got sore.

Gert brought along a Gertboard to demonstrate.

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We watched a presentation from Manchester University’s Pi Face team, who are making an interfacing board for education with the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi. London Zoo sent some technologists along to talk about their EyesPi project, which will be using 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pis to power camera networks spotting and recognising animals in the wild (we’re going to be talking to them some more about the camera add-on we’re working on at the moment). RISC OS came and did a demo of their port, currently in alpha, running on a 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi, which we’re excited about not just for reasons of nostalgia.

I’m particularly pleased to have seen so many teachers in the audience; we love that teachers who are familiar with the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi are sharing their knowledge and 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ一 with teachers who want to become familiar with it. The Teach Meet after the presentations was packed; we’re very grateful to all the teachers who are taking the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi and running with it.

And we finally got to meet Liam Fraser in the flesh. Liam, as many of you will know, is the 18-year-old giant brain who runs our downloads server, who runs the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi Tutorials YouTube channel (he’s recording new tutorials now his A Level exams are finished), and who now has a monthly column about the 欧美牲交a欧美牲交aⅴ久久 Pi in Linux User magazine. We feel we know Liam really well; Eben and I have been talking to him regularly for over a year now, and I feel I know him well enough that I’d trust my handbag (or, for that matter, my downloads server) to him. It felt like it couldn’t possibly be the first time we’d actually shared physical space: but it was, and it was a real pleasure to grasp him by the paw and thank him in person for all the work he’s been doing (and continues to do) for us. Yes, I recycle a joke from the first video here. Must try harder.

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Edit 1900h, Jul 15: The official organisers’ blog has just been updated with the presentations and video from the day; head on over!

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