Some announcements for our Saturday 30 April 2016 event. Firstly, we’re fully allocated for general admission tickets for Sat 30 April. However you can still come along if you volunteer to help out, or demonstrate a Raspberry Pi project, or…
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Saturday 30 April event
Tickets for Cotswold Raspberry Jam on Saturday 30 April 2016 are now available. Click here for free tickets As usual, the event runs 1-4pm at the University of Gloucestershire’s Park Campus in Cheltenham. This time we are allocating tutorial places…
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GPIO Zero Reaction Timer Tutorial
Files for our Reaction Timer Tutorial – GPIO Zero – are now available: • www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-01 This includes a .PDF file, a .DOCX wordprocessor file (public domain, feel free to reuse/adapt) and a .ZIP file with the code samples. The .PDF…
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Free Paper GPIO Ruler
You can download the PDF to print out your ruler here: • http://cotswoldjam.org/downloads/paper-gpio-ruler.pdf In anticipation of our GPIO Zero reaction timer tutorial at our January event (fully booked, sorry), we’ve created some paper GPIO rulers which are very helpful for…
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Saturday 30 January 2016 event
Our next event is: Saturday 30th January 1-4pm Park Campus, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham Tickets are free. This event is now fully booked. A small number of additional tickets are available for teachers (including school IT staff and teaching assistants),…
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Events for 2016
Our plan for events in 2016 is as follows: Sat 30 Jan, then 3 month break (avoid Easter weekend in March) Sat 30 April, then 2 month break Sat 2 July, then 3 month break (avoid University closure & family…
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Building Block Traffic Lights tutorial
The worksheet and sample code for our LEGO® Traffic Lights tutorial from September 2015 is now available: www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2015-09/ This tutorial requires: 1 red LED, 5mm 1 yellow LED, 5mm 1 green LED, 5mm LEGO® Technic brick 4×1 studs (3 Technic…
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Bring your own Pi to our tutorials
For our Sat 26 Sept 2015 event, you’ll be able to bring your own Raspberry Pi to our tutorial sessions, as our new venue is much larger. We’ll be providing 6 tutorial machines for those without Pis, which at two…
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New Venue!
We’re delighted to announce that the University of Gloucestershire has kindly agreed to host us from this Autumn. Events will be at the newly refurbished computing facility at Park Campus, Cheltenham and, assuming building work has finished and the paint…
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LED birthday candle tutorial
The worksheet, sample code and the public domain “Good Morning To All” music file are now available for our LED Birthday Candle Tutorial from April 2015. www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2015-04 This tutorial was remarkably successful given that it was fairly ambitious. We were…
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