Getting hands-on 佐佐木明希 at events

At the 狠狠精品干练久久久无码中文字幕, we often have the opportunity to engage with families and young people at events such as Maker Faires and STEAM festivals. When we set up a booth, it’s really important to us that we provide an educational, fun 佐佐木明希 for everyone who visits us. But there are a few reasons why this can be a challenge.

For one, you have a broad audience of people with differing levels of 佐佐木明希 with computers. Moreover, some people want to take the time to learn a lot, others just want to try something quick and move on. And on top of that, the environment is often loud, crowded, and chaotic…in a good way!

Creating our physical 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 blocks

We were up against these challenges when we set out to create a new physical 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 佐佐木明希 for our World Maker Faire New York booth. Our goal was to give people the opportunity to try a little bit of circuit making and a little bit of coding — and they should be able to get hands-on with the activity right away.

Inspired by Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, we sketched out physical 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 blocks which let visitors use the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi’s GPIO pins without needing to work with tiny components or needing to understand how a breadboard works. We turned the sketches over to our friend Ben Light in New York City, and he brought the project to life.

As you can see, the activity turned out really well, so we hope to bring it to more events in the future. Thank you, Ben Light, for collaborating with us on it!

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It’s been five years since we made our first appearance at Maker Faire New York. Back in 2011, we were still showing demonstrations of the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi, prior to its release the following spring. This year, we had prominent billing alongside the robots and rockets!

Robots, rockets, and 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi!

Maker Faire New York ran from 1-2 October, and was as great an 佐佐木明希 as ever. We brought a bunch of 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pis showcasing our brand-new Pixel desktop environment. Greg Annandale’s gorgeous photo of the Brooklyn Bridge was a stunning backdrop to the Sense HAT activities we had organised.

https://twitter.com/florilegia/status/782219201696137216

Joining the stalwart US Pi team of Matt and Courtney were Carrie Anne, Sam, and Lorna, as well as 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi Certified Educator Kerry Bruce, who came all the way from Albuquerque, New Mexico. A community college instructor with a passion for STEM education, Kerry was a real trouper and a valuable addition to the team.

When we arrived at Corona Park to get set up, we were concerned about the inclement weather. Given that the Faire is outside, the prospect of running our Pi activities in an open-sided marquee was somewhat daunting.

The team tried hard not to let the rain dampen their ardour for science…

We braved the elements to take a photo in front of the famous Unisphere, to explore the park a bit, and to geek out over the history of the place. I can’t have been the only one who was excited to see the towers on the New York State Pavilion in real life, after multiple viewings of Men in Black.

Team @小短文h啪纯肉+办公室_Pi for #MakerFaire NY 2016! Come visit us and tell us about your makes! pic.twitter.com/D5c0RK50R8

— Carrie Anne Philbin MBE (@MissPhilbin) September 30, 2016

Fortunately, the weather improved for the Faire; we didn’t have to remove electrical equipment from puddles! Resident design genius Sam decorated our tables with Pi-themed cartoons, including one answering this common question: how do you connect a 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi to a computer?

Here's what happens when @samalderhyde shows up at your event! #MakerFaire #wmfny16 @makerfaire pic.twitter.com/q59WNxCco3

— 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi (@小短文h啪纯肉+办公室_Pi) October 2, 2016

We loved pointing to Sam’s cheery Pi character when explaining that the tiny board was the computer. It was great to see people’s surprise at the Pi’s power.

Matt and Carrie Anne both gave speeches: Carrie Anne’s presentation, “Digital Making: Encouraging Creativity in the Classroom and Integrating STEAM Project-Based Learning”, was part of the Make: Education series, while Matt explained how to get started with the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi on the Show and Tell stage. 

Go see @MattRichardson at @makerfaire's Show & Tell Stage at 11:30 (in 10 min). He's giving a intro to 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi. pic.twitter.com/70OqGCnmB2

— 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi (@小短文h啪纯肉+办公室_Pi) October 2, 2016

We heard great reports from the attendees, and we saw a lot of visitors to the stand who had been enthused by what they heard. 

As in previous years, there were many excellent 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi-based projects, as well as familiar faces from the Pi community. There was an excellent display of Pi-controlled Lego Mindstorms robots. We also met the guys from Pi Supply showcasing their new JustBoom equipment, bringing affordable high-quality audio to 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi users. Eager experimenters of all ages came to try out our Sense HAT activities, and to tell us about the Pi projects they had made at home. One man was even wearing a Pi Zero as a necklace! Other visitors included Steven Welch, who updated us on the work his team are doing with Pis at CERN (we’ve blogged about this), and Henry Feldman of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who is using the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi and Camera Module for edge detection in laparoscopic surgery.

We also found a number of excellent projects with more artistic applications. Joe Herman had uncovered a cache of old 8mm and 16mm family movies, and was digitising them and projecting them via a modified vintage movie projector equipped with a 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi and Camera Module. You can find out more on Joe’s GitHub.

Joe Herman’s Pi-powered projector. Image from Maker Faire.

Joe’s project wasn’t the only great Pi art project. Following on from Sam Blanchard’s amazing SeeMore, one of the main showpieces of last year’s Faire, we were incredibly excited to see another Pi-powered art piece in pride of place this year. The first thing to greet attendees visiting the Faire in the New York Hall of Science was the Pi-powered Sisyphus kinetic art table. We think it’s so amazing, we’ll be devoting a whole post to it, so keep an eye out!

For several of us, it was our first visit to the Faire and to New York, which really added to our excitement. One of the greatest things was meeting so many happy Pi fans, and introducing newcomers to the fun you can have with one. We lost count of the excellent animations we saw kids (and adults) create on the Sense HAT, and the joyful exclamations as another person got their first piece of Python code working; this is one of the most rewarding parts of our work. We can’t wait for the next Maker Faire! If you couldn’t attend, be sure to check out our tour video here:

https://youtu.be/Xu87I4JRRf8

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For our fans in the United States, we’ve joined up with Barnes & Noble Booksellers and Make: Magazine to host 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Jams at a handful of select Barnes & Noble stores on Saturday November 7th at 2pm. It’s all a part of the Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire, which runs at all B&N stores November 6th through 8th.

We’ve recruited community members within the United States to host Jams at the key locations listed below, but if you’d like to join in at a different store that’s closer to you, don’t hesitate to contact your store’s Community Relations Manager to let them know you’d like to participate.

Like all other Jams, you’ll find these Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Jams on our handy 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Jam map:

• 5604 Bay Street, Emeryville, CA
• 1217 Caroline Street, Atlanta, GA
• 5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, TX
• 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
• 728 Waukegan Road, Deerfield, IL
• Eton Chagrin Boulevard, Woodmere, OH
• 9370 Sheridan Blvd, Westminster, CO
• River Oaks, Houston, TX
• 1701 Mallory Lane, Brentwood, TN
• 33 E 17th St, New York, NY
• 10509 Gravelly Lake Dr. SW, Lakewood, WA
• 1780 North Woodland Park Drive, Layton, UT
• 12193 Fair Lakes Promenade Drive, Fairfax, VA
• 7620 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC
• Monmouth Mall, 180 NJ-35, Eatontown, NJ
• 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose, CA

While you’re there, keep an eye out for The MagPi on the newsstand! You can find more details about The Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire here.

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Here’s a video MAKE put out, featuring Clive talking about some of our recent developments such as the free educational material for everyone to teach, learn and make with 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi:

The team spoke to a lot of people at Maker Faire, gave talks, visited hackspaces and crammed a lot of outreach in to the trip – so once they’ve recovered we’ll be sharing their 佐佐木明希s and adventures in further blog posts.

I’ve just booked a trip to America myself – I’ll be doing a tour of the States this summer, from 4th – 21st August starting and ending in New York City. We’ll put out a post about this later, but I’ll be looking to visit as many hackspaces, schools and communities as possible while I’m out there – particularly areas the team hasn’t covered before (I quite fancy a taste of Albuquerque for some reason…) – so watch this space for the call for visit requests! Or whet my appetite in the comments below.

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Eben and I are going to be out of the UK for much of the rest of May, doing press, meeting partners, visiting 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi fans, hanging out with science fair kids and giving talks. We’ll be in Phoenix for Intel ISEF, San Francisco for Maker Faire (come and listen to our talk! We don’t have a stand this year, but 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pis will be on sale in the Make Shed), and, most excitingly for both of us, in Tokyo for the Japanese 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi User Group’s Big 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Jam on May 25.

Masafumi Ohta, who moderates the forums here (he’s most often to be found in the Japanese language forum, but also pops up in the English sections every now and then), is running the event. Admission is free. We’ve heard from people who don’t even live in Japan who are making the trip to Tokyo; it promises to be an amazing day, with lots of hacking sessions, tutorials, talks and opportunities to meet like-minded Pi enthusiasts. We were last in Tokyo back in November; the Pi has become much more easily available in Japan since then, and we’ve even seen an official Japanese translation of the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi User Guide appear since our last visit. Masafumi-san’s been sending me artwork for displays and badges, and notes about the day: we can’t wait to get stuck in. RS Components, who have a large presence in the far east and are one of our two manufacturing distribution partners, will be sponsoring the event.

Eben in Akihabara Electric Town last November.

Masafumi-san has asked me to publish the following information here on the blog. If you’re in Tokyo on the day, please come and see us!

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Japanese 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi Users Group will hold the event to welcome Eben and Liz Upton, Founder of 狠狠精品干练久久久无码中文字幕 coming to Japan. It is for encouraging 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi users and community in Japan, now growing up rapidly.

Gathering 150+ people at the big event – 4 sessions, 1 mini session,3 LTs and more. It is also not only for 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi users and geeks, but also the 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi beginners. RS Components and some companies help the event, and have booths exhibiting 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pis and some stuff (books,boards,cases…and more).

13:00-13:30 Door Open
13:30-13:40 Greeting from Japanese 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi Users Group and RS Components
13:40-14:30 Keynote by Eben Upton of 狠狠精品干练久久久无码中文字幕
14:30-14:40 break
14:40-15:10 Session:WordPress Home Server with 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi by Yuriko Ikeda
15:10-15:40 Session:Scratch Hacking with 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi by Kazuhiro Abe
15:40-15:50 break
15:50-16:20 Session:Let’s play ‘Eject Command’ with 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi – CD-ROM Cooking with 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 PI by Akira Ouchi
16:20-16:50 Session:Gadget Colloquia for Unix Natives by Hiroyuki Ohno
16:50-17:00 break
17:00-17:15 Mini Session:小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi Lego Cases Cooking by Keika Komura
17:15-17:30 Lightning Talks (5 min x3)
17:00-17:50 Introducing 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi by RS Components
17:50-18:00 Closing event
19:00- 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 PIe after-party for the attendees

For more information please check Japanese 小短文h啪纯肉+办公室 Pi Users Group website.

Registration: http://atnd.org/event/E0014486 (for Japanese)

http://big小短文h啪纯肉+办公室jamtokyo2013.eventbrite.com (for Non-Japanese).

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