Educator, Co-founder @FDNdigicreate, Postgraduate Researcher (Leeds University), @LeedsRaspJam, #womenintech
"Everybody's welcome!" Since October 2015, and that first monthly Leeds Raspberry Jam at Swallow Hill Community College, we've tried to support the community to increase opportunities with digital making activities. In the spirit of the Raspberry Jam movement, we've nurtured new collaborations, peer to peer support, 'share & learn' and a range of informal workshops…
Continue reading ➞ Extending digital making collaborations with #ReadySteadyPi
We've been using a Y6 creative programme to link programming with literacy through digital making. Songs to code to alongside insults to sling! A Shakespearean school production gave the impetus to manipulate lists of data in a CSV format using Python to build a random insult generator. Fab resource link from the Raspberry Pi Foundation…
I learnt a lot on Saturday. With every maker event there are opportunities for collaborations and family learning activities, and this weekend's #MakeBelieve focus was about young people imagining the tech of the future. That saw paired projects with peers, intergenerational activities and individual inspirations and inventions at Leeds City Museum - all part of the awesome programme from the Leeds…
Raspberry Jams are community events organised to support knowledge share, learning new skills, gleaning new ideas and meeting other like-minded digital makers using Raspberry Pi. In Raspberry Jam group in Hull continues to grow and expand with new ideas and new projects. This month we held our first event in the city centre. The first Raspberry…
Continue reading ➞ Wondered about the wonders of Pi? STEM to STEAM just got large scale in Hull!
Wow - a year since we started to put our monthly meet up into the calendar at Swallow Hill ! This month's Raspberry Jam had the usual mix of shared projects to make and individual projects to share. And with birthday projects came cake 🙂 Great night @LeedsRaspJam on 1st birthday. Incl @Space_Station . One…
Continue reading ➞ Leeds Raspberry Jam: First birthday at Swallow Hill
Another great community learning event when over 80 people registered, and this time planned with more support for a wider array of digital making projects. We were joined by friends from GPIO and Code Club who added to the workshop programme and gave more opportunities for hands-on learning, collaborating and networking. Highlights above from Trevor's 'Introduction to…
An introduction to IOT or programming with Python? Our 'Sensing the Environment' workshop gave opportunities to explore data logging, RGB values through animations and smart citizen applications using Raspberry Pi. Crazy lights: Next Raspberry Jam will be at Swallow Hill on Wednesday 5th October. Registration link here.
Thanks to Swallow Hill, we were able to add a daytime Raspberry Jam event into the summer diary. Our workshop centred around coding music with Sonic Pi and led to team tracks and individual compositions which were eventually shared between the group. For some of our younger members, they extended previous game making activities with…
Robots, clocks, game making, Pygame and musical compositions with Sonic Pi. This month's jam was a blend of personalised projects and inspiration through collaboration. We got the chance to do a bit of clock watching this new timepiece. There's something wonderful about seeing binary in colour 🙂 Details about the project from this link to The MagPi…
Great to see the Raspberry Jam community growing in Hull. This weekend we welcomed over 40 people into Malet Lambert School, on a sunny Saturday morning, to share and learn together using Raspberry Pi. New collaborations forming, and family learning challenges extending, as teams expand with added experiences and programming snippets from others. One of our workshops centred around…
