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Tag: raspberry pi

  • Midimutant in MagPi Magazine

    Here’s an article on midimutant we did with Aphex Twin for MagPi Magazine, written by Sean McManus. Most of the work on this project recently has revolved around exploring custom hardware using old FM synth chips from games consoles, but with any luck there should be some more evolved DX7 sounds around here soon.

  • New pattern matrix developments

    A few weeks ago we kicked off the new Penelope project, and while in Munich one of our first jobs was to deliver the prototype pattern matrix to the Museum of Casts of Classical sculpture for exhibition over the summer as part of our Penelopean lab. Our next mission in Cornwall is to design new…

  • Debugging midi bytes with sonification

    I’m currently working on some hardware for interfacing a Raspberry Pi 3 with MIDI. You can of course use a normal USB audio interface, and there is a ready made MIDI Hat module for the Pi already – but I only need MIDI out, and it shouldn’t be a problem to come up with something…

  • Sonic Kayaks: musical instruments for marine exploration

    Here is a bit of a writeup of the gubbins going into the sonic kayaks project. We only have a few weeks to go until the kayaks’ maiden voyages at the British Science Festival, so we are ramping things up, with a week of intense testing and production last week with Kirsty Kemp, Kaffe Matthews…

  • A tanglebots workshop report

    I’ve tried a lot of different ways of teaching children programming, starting a few years ago with primary school children in a classroom, then doing inset training days for teachers and finally private tutoring in homes. For the finale to the weavingcodes project we are trying a new approach, teaching families about code, robotics and…

  • Mongoose 2000 version 2

    Mongoose 2000 version 2 is now being used in the Banded Mongoose Research Project Fieldsite on the Mweya Peninsula, in the Queen Elizabeth National Park, western Uganda. We’ve added two new focal observations – where a single mongoose in a specific life stage is followed, and has it’s activity recorded for 20 minutes. These observations…

  • Hungry birds citizen science at the Paris Natural History Museum

    Some photos of Mónica Arias running her “Hungry Birds” butterfly catching experiment at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris. The Museum’s internet capability was challenging, so we ran the game server on a Raspberry Pi with an adhoc wifi and provided the data collection ourselves. The project is concerned with analysing pattern recognition and…

  • Training teachers in coding, and thinking about e-waste/recycled robots

    We recently had the second inset training day in programming related activities at Truro school. Following on from the previous session I didn’t want to introduce too much new stuff, so we concentrated on going back over Sonic Pi and Minecraft/Python programming in the morning, then discussed a lot more about our future workshops in…

  • Picademy Exeter and Future Thinking for Social Living

    Last week I had the chance to help out the Raspberry Pi foundation at their Picademy in Exeter. It was good to meet up with Sam Aaron again to talk livecoding on Pis, and also see how they run these events. They are designed for local teachers to get more confident with computers, programming and…

  • Hungry birds 2 – the citizen science edition

    One of the three citizen science game projects we currently have running at Foam Kernow is a commission for Mónica Arias at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, who works with this research group. She needed to use the Evolving butterflies game we made last year for the Royal Society Summer exhibition to help…