Linux – Victoria PiMakers And Others

July 4, 2019February 18, 2020

Saturday, Aug 3, 2019 Linux Sig

9:30 AM to 12:00 AM

Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)

27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC

May 22, 2019July 25, 2019

Sat 6 July 2019 – Linux Sig

9:30 AM to 12:00 AM

Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)

27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC

February 2, 2019February 24, 2019

March 2, 2019 – Linux Sig

9:30 AM to 12:00 PM

Quality Foods, Upstairs Large Boardroom
27 Helmcken Rd · Victoria, BC
Eagle Creek (near Victoria General Hospital)

Get together, enjoy coffee, and talk Linux. Everyone is welcome

13 Raspberry Pis slosh-test space shuttle tanks in zero gravity September 25, 2020
High-school student Eleanor Sigrest successfully crowdfunded her way onto a zero-G flight to test her latest Raspberry Pi-powered project. NASA Goddard engineers peer reviewed Eleanor’s experimental design, which detects unwanted movement (or ‘slosh’) in spacecraft fluid tanks. The apparatus features an accelerometer to precisely determine the moment of zero gravity, along with 13 Raspberry Pis… […]
Ashley Whittaker
17000ft | The MagPi 98 September 24, 2020
How do you get internet over three miles up the Himalayas? That’s what the 17000 ft Foundation and Sujata Sahu had to figure out. Rob Zwetsloot reports in the latest issue of the MagPi magazine, out now. Living in more urban areas of the UK, it can be easy to take for granted decent internet… […]
Rob Zwetsloot
Embedding computational thinking skills in our learning resources September 23, 2020
Learning computing is fun, creative, and exploratory. It also involves understanding some powerful ideas about how computers work and gaining key skills for solving problems using computers. These ideas and skills are collected under the umbrella term ‘computational thinking’. When we create our online learning projects for young people, we think as much about how… […]
Oliver Quinlan
Raspberry Pi powered e-paper display takes months to show a movie September 22, 2020
We loved the filmic flair of Tom Whitwell‘s super slow e-paper display, which takes months to play a film in full. Living art His creation plays films at about two minutes of screen time per 24 hours, taking a little under three months for a 110-minute film. Psycho played in a corner of his dining… […]
Ashley Whittaker
Raspberry Pi turns retro radio into interactive storyteller September 21, 2020
8 Bits and a Byte created this voice-controllable, interactive, storytelling device, hidden inside a 1960s radio for extra aesthetic wonderfulness. A Raspberry Pi 3B works with an AIY HAT, a microphone, and the device’s original speaker to run chatbot and speech-to-text artificial intelligence. This creature is a Bajazzo TS made by Telefunken some time during… […]
Ashley Whittaker