I was able to set up the full experiment with my Home Education Computing group yesterday. We had got hold of some Copper Sulphate from ebay and stopped filming the snow. We planned to film one form set of crystals from above using the Visual-Pi...
We had a little snow this week so whilst I was experimenting with timelaspe I thought I would try capturing the snow in our garden melting. I attached the Raspberry Pi and the camera module fixed into the supplied case to my bedroom widow facing...
This is my first post as part of the Raspberry Pi Educators Roadtest scheme. Unfortunately I am a little behind with this blog mainly due to the delay in receiving the kit - I was expecting to have it well before Christmas when I would have som...
A few months ago I delivered some Raspberry Pi CPD for the South Yorkshire CAS (Computing At School) hub. I was introducing the Raspberry Pi and demonstrating how it could be used in schools. At the time I was very impressed with the AV set up they h...
The Raspberry Pi Educators RoadTest is well under way and just a week before the contest ends on January 30th we have seen quite a few great blog posts from our participants. Please follow all of the action on our blog and on the element14 STEM Acade...
January feels like it has flown by but every time I sit down to write one of these blog posts I'm reminded of how each class is spaced one week apart. That's a long time when you think about having to retain what you've learnt over a...
So the start to this term did not quite go to plan. In the first week of term I was hampered in my progress by an OFSTED inspection and then the following week I was afflicted with a bout of appendicitis. This resulted in an admission to hospital and...
In my first Roadtest post, I gave my overall impression of the Raspberry Pi B+ Camera Kit out of the box. My long term idea is to have my Earth and Space Science high school students use a RPi-based high altitude balloon. This would require integrati...
During my last programming class I worked with a student on programming a robot to draw geometric shapes. Please excuse the weirdness of the video and note that the robot didn't work this time...www.youtube.com/watch The construction of the ...
The Raspberry Pi B+ Educators RoadTest is under way and we have received blog posts from two of the US contestants. Please follow all of the action on our blog and on the element14 STEM Academy page. One of these three STEM educators will be chosen t...
The school year has started again after a solid two week break. And it was a solid two weeks of me thinking about how I was going to approach my Tuesday grind because it is every Tuesday I teach a variety of classes based on the subject of progr...
This week I received the Raspberry Pi Model B+ Camera Kit as part of the element14 Raspberry Pi Educators Roadtest. In this blog I'd like to share a bit of my background and then talk about this kit's included parts and setup.I am a STEM educ...
In my last blog I explained how I am using the Python library (which is pre-installed on a Raspberry Pi) to teach programming. It's convenient, and "pretty cool" when it's projected onto a large whiteboard in my o...
Around this time last year I had my first experience with Arduino micro-controllers while attending a workshop at the MIT media labs .Ever since then it has become a full blown hobby of mine to create robots with them. However, as ...
Thank you for selecting me to take part in the Raspberry Pi Educators Road test whilst I wait for the kit to arrive I thought I would get started with the blog posts introducing myself and my plan for the road test About MeI am currently splitting my...
The Raspberry Pi has instigated a revolution in computing and electronics engineering. However, it's original purpose was and remains education: thanks to the Raspberry Pi, students have the opportunity to learn coding and engineering skills whic...
