Tag: raspberry pi
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More procedural Minecraft architecture
More work on the Python teaching environment we’ll be using next week for the Minecraft workshop at dBsMusic. I’m working on various ideas for procedural architecture, using this as a way to demonstrate what programming is about – thinking procedurally/functionally. The code is online here – I’ll be adding some exercises and course materials over…
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Strange terraforming
Working on the upcoming Raspberry Pi programming workshop for dBsCode, I’m wrapping the Minecraft Python API with a functional style one to reduce the amount of syntax we’ll have to teach. The idea is to build complex 3D shapes via abstraction, out of simple primitives. The IDE we’re using is Geany which seems to run…
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Coding is Fun
West Cornwall’s CodeClub team (Glen Pike and I) bring you the next stage at dBs Music:
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Scratch -> Lego Mindstorms
A bit of hardware hacking for Troon Primary CodeClub, who have tons of old style Lego Mindstorms they don’t use any more, and after a year of Scratch programming on their PCs are just getting started with Raspberry Pi. We’re using this Scratch modification together with the hardware I’m making which is based on this…
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Solar powered computation
This is a Raspberry Pi running a Racket Servlet (with the Mongoose 2000 data sync server) serving a webpage to the tablet. The neat thing is that it’s running on solar power – a day of gloomy winter Cornish light (not even outside) charging the on board battery results in over an hour of running…
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Raspberry Pi: Built for graphics livecoding
I’m working on a top secret project for Sam Aaron of Meta-eX fame involving the Raspberry Pi, and at the same time thinking of my upcoming CodeClub lessons this term – we have a bunch of new Raspberry Pi’s to use and the kids are at the point where they want to move on from…
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Mongoose 2000
A screen shot from the Mongoose 2000 project, we now have most of the ‘pup focal’ interfaces working and syncing their data via the Raspberry Pi. This is the interface for recording a pup aggression event – including the identity of the aggressive mongoose and some information on the cause and severity. Each mongoose has…
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Jellyfish: A daft new language is born
After trying, and failing, to write a flocking system in jellyfish bytecode I wrote a compiler using the prototype betablocker one. It reads a scheme-ish imperative language and generates bytecode (which is also invented, and implemented in C++) it only took a couple evenings and a train journey to write, and it even seems to…
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Mongoose 2000
Mongoose 2000 is a system I’m developing for the Banded Mongoose Research Project. It’s a behavioural recording system for use in remote areas with sporadic internet or power. The project field site is located in Uganda in the countryside and it needs to run for long time frames, so there are big challenges when it…