pi-top are pleased to announce that our Champions will be running a series of workshops at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley on Sunday 19th February 2017.

From 12pm, pi-top champions and staff will be running drop-in workshops showing off the power of physical computing and Raspberry Pi in the WITCH room. There will also be one hour workshops starting at 1pm, hosted by our amazing champions.

Spaces in workshops are limited, but we will try to include as many people as possible.

You will need to pay entry to the museum in order to attend any of these workshops.

By signing up via eventbrite, you are not guaranteed a place on your workshop of choice, but we will do our best to accommodate you where possible.

1pm - 2pm:

Intro to Scratch on the Raspberry Pi with Iseult Mangan (6 spaces)

The Amazing Raspbertree with Andrew Mulholland (10 spaces)

PiCamera and Time Lapse with James Mitchell (10 spaces)

2pm - 3pm:

Intro to Scratch on the Raspberry Pi with Iseult Mangan (6 spaces)

The Amazing Raspbertree with Andrew Mulholland (10 spaces)

PiCamera and Time Lapse with James Mitchell (10 spaces)

3pm-4pm:

Hacking Micro:Bits and Raspberry Pi with Spencer Organ (10 spaces)

Sonic Pi - Coding through sound with Stephen Amor (6 spaces)

Physical computing using GPIOzero with Les Pounder (10 spaces)

4pm-5pm:

Hacking Micro:Bits and Raspberry Pi with Spencer Organ (10 spaces)

Sonic Pi - Coding through sound with Stephen Amor (6 spaces)

Physical computing using GPIOzero with Les Pounder (10 spaces)

Workshop Details:

Intro to Scratch on the Raspberry Pi Iseult Mangan (6 spaces)

This workshop is suitable for beginners including adults and young children

Attendees will learn how to make an exciting Scratch game based on the Raspberry Pi Foundation astronaut reaction game https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/astronaut-reaction-times/

Come and learn how to make a great game in Scratch and be inspired to learn to code

The Amazing Raspbertree with Andrew Mulholland (10 spaces)

Everyone loves Christmas trees covered in multicoloured LEDs, but what if you could hack those LEDs? What if you could make them any colour you want? And what if we added a few more LEDs than the average Christmas tree? How about 300 multicoloured LEDs, each of which can be one of 16 million different colours!

In this beginner level workshop, we will learn how to hack the dazzling Raspbertree using the Python programming language along with learning a little on computer networking.

PiCamera and Time Lapse with James Mitchell (10 spaces)

At the PiCamera and Time lapse workshop we will show users how to connect the PiCamera safely to the Raspberry Pi within the Pi-Top and how to get started using it with some of basic to advanced options. We will also write a short piece of python code to create a short time lapse that workshop attendees could save and upload to the internet

Hacking Micro:Bits and Raspberry Pi with Spencer Organ (10 spaces)

The BBC Micro:Bit is a great platform to start to learn to code and it works really well with the Raspberry Pi and PiTop CEED. During this workshop, we will be using the Raspberry Pi to hack the BBC Micro:Bits. The workshop will have a Harry Potter theme and will include making a Sorting Hat, creating potions and animating magical spells. We will be writing our code in MicroPython and the code and resources (not including the Micro:Bit) will available for you to take away at the end.

Sonic Pi - Coding through sound with Stephen Amor (6 spaces)

Sonic Pi is an open-source programming environment, designed to explore and teach programming concepts through the process of creating new sounds. Learn how to compose music using the live coding music synth in our Sonic Pi workshop.

Physical computing using GPIOzero with Les Pounder (10 spaces)

Learn how you can use the Raspberry Pi to send secret messages using a simple LED and buzzer! We'll be using morse code to send messages to one another!