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Photo Competition 2017

We need some photos of Gloucestershire and Cotswold landmarks to use as desktop backgrounds for our custom distributions of the Raspberry Pi operating system, Raspbian, for our events this year. We include our workshop/tutorial files, WiFi setup etc. with these

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Raspberry Pi Christmas 2016 Buyers’ Guide

This list is outdated; see our Raspberry Pi Christmas Shopping Wishlist 2018 If you’re completely new to the Raspberry Pi, here are my recommendations for UK purchases for Christmas 2016. All prices include VAT and mainland UK P&P unless otherwise

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Photos of Sat 24 Sept event

Photos from our Saturday 24 September 2016 event are now available on our Facebook group. You don’t need to join our group to view them. • https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1209626345777333 Thanks to Paul Collins for the photos.

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June event rescheduled to Sat 2 July

Unfortunately we have had to reschedule our 25 June Raspberry Pi event to Saturday 2 July. The time remains 1-4pm. This is due to a clash with the university’s open day, which we have no control over. Tickets and tutorial

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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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Donations, Tutorials and the new Raspberry Pi 2

As you may have heard, the new Raspberry Pi 2 was released this morning. That would explain why I was able to purchase a Raspberry Pi 1 B+ for less than £21 yesterday! The new model looks great and is

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Programme – Sat 31 Jan 2015

Official start time is 1pm. Ticket holders only. Everything else is draft until it actually happens! Sat 31 Jan 2015 Conference Room(“Ramsden” room) Tutorial Room(“Sibson” room) 12:45 Doors open; informal meet & greet 13:15 Welcome; programme run through; hands up

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Programme – Sat 22 Nov 2014

Official start time is 1pm. Ticket holders only. Everything else is draft until it actually happens! Sat 22 Nov 2014 Conference Room(“Ramsden” room) Tutorial Room(“Sibson” room) 12:45 Doors open; informal meet & greet 13:15 Welcome; programme run through; hands up

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