Controlling the World from a Web Browser
A presentation on how to use the Raspberry Pi (and a web browser) to control the world (or just about anything in it).
9:30 am
Victoria Computer Club
85A Burnside Rd West (at Wascana), Victoria, BC (map)
Category Archives: Learning
Animatronics Course
Animatronics Course (at Makerspace)
January 28, 2016 to March 24, 2016 (6:30 PM – 8:30 PM)
9 sessions on Thursday
Location: Vancouver Island Technology Park
Instructor: James Jacoby
Expected Class Size: 12
Register at UVIC Continuing Studies HERE
Movie special effects abound with monsters and robots that roar and move and react to people in the scenes with them. Learn how to make your own animatronic creations! This course will teach you how to program the Arduino microcontroller, a tiny computer that can connect to sensors and motors to make your projects light up, react to sounds, move, sense temperature, and all sorts of other tricks. You’ll build a project from scratch—maybe a puppet, robot, a spaceman helmet, or whatever else your creativity inspires. Along the way, you’ll have workshop facilities available to you as a temporary member of the Victoria Makerspace (makerspace.ca) and access to all of the instructional videos from one of the leading special effects studios, Stan Winston Studios, www.stanwinstonschool.com/tutorials.
At the end of this course, you will have the knowledge you need to embed a computer into all of your artistic creations.
Please note: this course will take place at Makerspace at the Vancouver Island Technology Park, 4A – 4476 Markham Street.
Course Includes: Arduino kits, 2 months MakerSpace Membership, 2 months Stan Winston access.
Pi lifts off to ISS
Cambridge’s world-famous Raspberry Pi has hit new heights – by being blasted into space.
On December 6th an Antares Cygnus rocket carried 2 Pi’s to the International Space Station. Tim Peakes, the first British ESA astronaut, will use the Raspberry Pi for educational outreach.
Tim Peakes arrives at the Internation Space Station December 15 at 17:24 GMT.
Astro Pi
Your code in space!
Astro Pi Mission
Two augmented Raspberry Pi computers (called Astro Pis) are being flown to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of British ESA Astronaut Tim Peake’s mission. They are both equipped with the mighty Sense HAT that can measure the environment inside the station, detect how it’s moving through space, and pick up the Earth’s magnetic field. Each Astro Pi is also equipped with a different kind of camera; one has an infra-red camera and the other has a standard visible spectrum camera.