Manchester Raspberry Pi Jam

#1 son and I had a great time at the Manchester Raspberry Pi Jam at Madlab on Saturday.  We got the Pi up and running and making an LED flash morse code out.  Turns out you've got to worry about the length of the gaps just as much as the length of the flashes.

Here's a video of the Pi saying 'Hi Mum'.  I promise it is the Pi doing the work and not the laptop.

The plan for next time is to make a bright enough light source that another board connected to a Pi can read the Morse Code back in using a photo-resistor.

Raspberry Pi Running Headless

I've got the Raspberry Pi up and running in headless mode.

1. I used the general instructions here: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/04/raspberry-pi-getting-started-guide-how-to/ 
2. With specific headless information from here: http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/raspberrypi-headless
3. Installed the Debian Raspbian “wheezy” image on the SD card
4. Connected power and Ethernet cable
5. Found the IP address off the router
6. ssh to the pi user on that IP using password of 'raspberry’
7. Ran the setup with sudo raspi-config

More MadLab Events

I'm booking up for:

• Raspberry PI Jam -- 8 September
• Robot Hack Day -- 27 October

Setting Up For The Omniversity Arduino Course

I'm very excitedly setting up for the Madlab Omniversity Arduino course this weekend.  I'm following the instructions to set up the Ardunio on the Mac.  It worked like a charm.

I wonder if I have to take my soldering iron...

Soldering at MadLab in Manchester

Several of us went to the two soldering workshops run by Mitch Altman at MadLab in Manchester last week. We had an excellent time. Someone from the HACMan group has just posted a link to photos from the soldering sessions.