You don’t need to bring your own Raspberry Pi to our tutorial workshops, but if you do, you’ll need to make sure your Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian software is up-to-date. Your Raspberry Pi will need to be connected to the internet…
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Files for Jan 2017 tutorials now available
Downloads for the tutorials/workshops from our Saturday 28 January 2017 event are now available: • www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2017-01 These include: • Distance Sensor tutorial – how to wire up the super-cheap HC-SR04 distance sensor and take readings with Python using GPIOZero. Also…
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Downloads for Workshops – Nov 2016
Downloads to support the tutorials for our Saturday 26 November event are now available: • http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-11/ This includes: • Scratch Balloon Drop Maths Quiz by Steve Martin • Buzz Wire electronics & Python tutorial by David Pride • Minecraft Dungeon…
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September 2016 tutorial downloads
Code samples and PDFs for our Sat 24 Sept 2016 tutorial sessions are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-09 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way you like, without…
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July 2016 tutorial downloads
Code samples and PDFs for our Sat 2 July 2016 tutorial sessions are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-07 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way you like, without…
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LEGO® Burglar Alarm and Scratch Maze Game tutorial files
Code samples and tutorial PDFs (and MS-Word source) for our Saturday 30 April 2016 event are now available: http://www.cotswoldjam.org/downloads/2016-04 All our code & documents are public domain and you are encouraged to copy, re-use and edit them in any way…
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Our custom Raspbian image for tutorials
For each Cotswold Raspberry Jam, I produce a custom version of the Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian operating system, all set up ready for tutorials and other projects at the event. You can download the one for our Sat 2 July 2016…
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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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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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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