Wednesday 23 March 2016

Rise of Rabbitsapien

A little more detail on my experience of PiCademy December 2015 and the project a few of us developed - RabbitSapien.


To have a go, you may have to have the following:


Rise of Rabbitsapien - A team of us put together a project of a robot with a rabbit (no other soft toys were available) with a Passive IR sensor in its belly; that carries out a set routine when movement is detected. All control by a Raspberry Pi via an Pimoroni Explorerhat.




It was also great to come away with some many resources both physical and activities. Thank you to the Pi Foundation for such a good experience.



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Sunday 20 March 2016

Dark in Sonic Pi



I am not a musician but I do love playing/coding (not difference really) Sonic Pi and video (using Voila http://www.globaldelight.com/voila/index.php) so I came up with this, it was just fun to do. 

Please someone take it and improve it.

use_synth :prophet
in_thread do
  loop do
    sample  :ambi_choir, rate: 0.1, attack: 4, release: 4
    sleep 10
  end
end
in_thread do
  loop do
    sample :bass_trance_c, amp: 0.75, release: 3
    sleep 2
    sample :bass_trance_c, rate: 0.5, amp: 0.5, release: 5
    sleep 4
    sample :bass_trance_c, rate: 0.3, amp: 0.25, release: 9
    sleep 10
  end
end
sleep 4
sample :ambi_drone, amp: 0.75, release: 3
sleep 8
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 0.75, release: 3
sleep 7
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 3, release: 6
sleep 6
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 3, release: 5
sleep 5
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 4
sleep 4
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 3
sleep 3
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 2
sleep 2
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 1
sleep 1
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 0.5
sleep 0.5
sample :ambi_dark_woosh, amp: 5, release: 0.5



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Saturday 12 March 2016

3 'Art' Scratch Projects





Grid painting - Simple system that allows images made up on 8 x 8 grid. Click on the Green flag to start. For the code go to: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/101415120/


Whirleygig 1 - straight random lines. Click on the Green flag to start. Foe the code go to: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/99053538/


Whirleygig 2 - random lines. Click on the Green flag to start. For the code go to: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/100924783/



The last two are loosely based on the idea of Generative Art. A good book, in my view, on this is available from Amazon at Generative Art


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Tuesday 8 March 2016

Random picture Generator using Scratch

This short post is about a simple idea that was turn into a Scratch solution. I had developed a computational thinking based paper game with my son around following an algorithm to draw lines randomly using dice to select direction and length of the line.

Here is a Scratch program to do something similar. It is random in three ways
- The time taken is random.
- The direction is selected randomly
- the length of the line is selected randomly

To run it just press the green flag.



Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/99053538/ for more details.

Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/100957552/ for more details.



Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/100924783/ for more details.


Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/101630166/ for more details.

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Thursday 3 March 2016

Best coding games for kids: programming toys to teach children how to code - Test Centre - PC Advisor

Best coding games for kids: programming toys to teach children how to code - Test Centre - PC Advisor:


SAM Science Museum Inventor Kit Labs Toy




Sphero SPRK
This is the only one on the list I have actually played with. Fantastic device and as well the software you download from the manufacturer, there are some other bits of software you can download for it. My particular favourite is the TickleApp because it allows programming control of the sphero's but also other devices such as some of the Parrot drones. The BB-8 Sphero is great fun as well.




ThinkFun Code Master Programming



STEM - Robot Mouse Activity Set
https://www.learningresources.co.uk/product/stem-coding-set.do




Robot Turtle Game



Kamibot
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kamibot/kamibot-teach-your-kids-to-code



To read more of the original article go to: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/gadget/best-coding-games-for-kids-3635899/

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