About the day
100 students will be exploring the Rasperry Pi Computer.
Well done to Base 10, 9, 8 and 7
There are journalists who will be posting ideas during the day
Top links to find out more
1. The Rasperry Pi foundation: The official site for all things Pi.
2. Projects you can try: coding, building and design.
3. Explore the Pi via Scratch: With a simple program from Mr Smith
10 facts about the Pi
1. It's a pocket sized computer.
2. The Pi uses a small digital card (called and SD card) to store data
3. You can load games, programs and even music and movies.
4. You need to plug in a mouse and keyboard (via USB ports)
5. You can connect to a screen through a HDMI slot in the Pi.
6. There is a headphone slot suitable for music purposes or whilst on the phone to family/friends.
7. This is made in China.
8. You can also access the internet through this minature sized computer
9. You can also access a calculator; great for schooling purposes.
10. There is also a slot for the Ethernet cable to connect to a network
Note: Mrs Tyrer was impressed how quickly the programs load. (but please remember there are no individual logons or saving to a shared network drive as we have them set up in school).
How to use apps/games
The Raspberry Pi has lots of applications installed on the SD Card.
For example
A. Minecraft
B. Free 'Office' type software called Libra Office (including wordprocessor and spreadsheet)
C. You can access Tetris by clicking the raspberry icon.
D. Brain Game: You access the brain game by going onto projects and it is under the topic of games.
E. You can also a game called Flippy (a chequers game)
Note: some of the games have been written using
Python which is a
coding language that you will learn in Secondary
schools.
Prices and where to buy them.
The Pi you all used today costs about £35. Please remember that you would also need.
Element 14 are a good supplier.
How to find out more
There are lots of exciting projects such as
Who invented the Pi?
The Raspberry Pi was created in Febuary 2012 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They initially released 2 Devices the Model A and the Model B.
Often computers are named after fruit. Apple, Apricot Computers etc
How much memory does the Pi have? Different models have different amounts of memory, for example 1GB of RAM. [Random Access Memory]
How this project was set up
Funding for some of this project
has come from
The Maxell Educational Trust
The Trust was set up in 1989 by Maxell Europe Ltd to express the Company appreciation for the support it had received from the local community.
