Manchester Raspberry Jam
Title: Manchester Raspberry Jam 1
Location: MadLab
Description: The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized computer with an ARM chip that runs Linux and you can buy one for about £30. It’s designed to bring the hype of BBC Basic back in to schools – you just plug one in to a TV or monitor, attach a keyboard and mouse, and start programming!
Date: 09-06-2012
Start Time: 10:00
End Time: 15:00
Register: This event has has passed. The upcoming event can be found here
Come along to the MadLab for a day playing with your (or somebody else’s) brand new Raspberry Pi! We’ll start with a ‘Getting Started’ session for people to be shown how to get their Pi up and running by mounting a Linux OS on to an SD card and seeing things happen on a TV screen. Following that we’ll have a number of Barcamp-style talks and demos to explore what people are doing with their Pi and to inspire ideas for interesting applications.
What you’ll need
- If you have a Raspberry Pi, do bring it with you, but it’s not essential as you will be able to watch demos and play with other people’s Pis
- If you’re bringing a Pi, bring as much useful stuff as you can – USB keyboard, mouse, HDMI (or other) cable, SD card(s), power cable, network cable, etc
- If you feel like giving a talk or demo, prepare something and we’d love to see what you have to show
The event will be free but donations to the MadLab will be gratefully accepted!
Tags: Manchester Raspberry Jam, MCR Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Jam, Raspberry Pi
Hi can anyone let us know what the session will involve etc?
In addition do we need to bring a Paspberry Pie or anything else?
Hi, I am interested to know more.
Steve in Leigh.
Hello Haroon, Christine, and Stephen
We’ve passed your queries to the event organiser who will get back to you soon. We’ll also be posting more info here as soon as we have it (this is a non MadLab-organised event). If you need anything else, do get in touch.
Best wishes
Natalie (Office Coordinator)
Hi all
I’ve now updated the post with a bit of info about roughly what we’ll be doing.
Any questions/ideas/suggestions feel free to post here
Ben
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I would love to be able to attend but unfortunately I can’t attend on this particular day. I look forward to joining you on a future date. There are Jams happening in Preston, Sheffield, Durham, Cambridge and London too.
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Kicking myself for missing this – found out about it after the event.
Is there another one planned ?
There will! Hopefully next month. Watch the Madlab site or the Raspberry Jam twitter account @McrRaspJam. Hope to see you there!
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I’m interested too if there’s another being planned.
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