Drop-in
Workshop: Have your Pi…Now What?
Facilitator-
Dr Scott Turner
Associate
Professor in Computing and Immersive Technologies, University of Northampton
Public
Engagement Ambassador and National STEM Ambassador
Date - 30th October 2014
Where- Second Floor, Newton Building,
University of Northampton NN2 6JB
Time
- 19:30-21:00
Aim - What
can you do with that Raspberry Pi this half term, you brought it but never
got around to using?
This is one of the two
Raspberry Pi focused parallel session being run on 30th October2014 by BCS Northampton.
In this session some basic example activities will be shown and facilitated. It
is an informal drop-in session, so come have a try at some simple programming
and control with the Raspberry Pi. All based around a fun, free programming
language Scratch (scratch.mit.edu).
Audience-
Beginners to
Raspberry Pi, including general public, members and non-members. Children are
welcome to this.
Example Activities-
1.
Basic Scratch programming
activity:- Bonfire Night Game. Which can be done on either the Raspberry Pi or
PCs.
2.
Scratch control of LEDs via a
Raspberry Pi.
3.
Junkbot – be one of the first
to program a ‘robot’ made from a Raspberry Pi, a drinks can, pens, and a motor
and get it to draw (see http://youtu.be/lsIEEvpT3ik and http://junkbots.blogspot.co.uk/ for more details)
If you'd like to find out more about Computing at the University of Northampton go to: www.computing.northampton.ac.uk
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