Try Sonic Pi and Minecraft Programming at the Egham Raspberry Jam on the 26th of April

Come and try out Sonic Pi and Minecraft/Python programming.

Sonic Pi is a great way to create music by programming. You can even do Live Coding giving you the ability to compose music as you playing. 
Sonic Pi is such an amazing way to learn about music and programming that the Raspberry Pi Foundation recently ran a competition for Sonic Pi compositions.
The 10 finalists are amazing.  Be a composer by coding.

Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi is a great open world environment where you can program what happens.  Build a Giant Clock or how about a Town Square 

How about mixing the two and creating music using Minecraft. See the Minecraft Piano

Now's your chance to try them out on the 26th April at the Egham Raspberry Jam.

The event is free to attend all you have to do is register on Eventbrite.
http://eghamjam7.eventbrite.com 
Places are limited to 100 and last time we sold out and had a waiting list for the final week and it's looking like it will be the same again this time.

So, if you're interested in trying Sonic Pi and Minecraft then get yourself registered and come along.

To see more of what happens at the Egham Jams checkout the write up and some pictures from the Jam we had on had in January. http://winkleink.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/egham-raspberry-jam-25th-of-january.html

Egham/Staines Raspberry Jam 20th Jan 2013

Back in October I started the process of hosting a Raspberry Jam at my employers office in January.
It took nearly 2 months to get it sorted but we got there and on the 20th of December I announced the first Raspberry Jam at the Gartner offices in Egham on the 20th of January 2013.

In case you're unaware a Raspberry Jam is an event for people interested in the Raspberry Pi computer. An opportunity to meet like minded people and hopefully get inspired or connect with people who are looking to achieve the same or similar goals to yourself.

I attended a couple at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes in October and November and was even more convinced that Raspberry Jams were a great idea and well worth organising.

Well, with 2 weeks to go there are only 3 tickets let of the 50 allocated on Eventbrite. http://eghamraspberryjam.eventbrite.com

There 2 confirmed presentation, including the amazing near space live images project Pi in the Sky.

Based on the demand so far I'm hoping for a full house and if this one goes well I will work to get it set up so we can have Raspberry Jams regularly at the Gartner offices.

A big thank you to Alan O'Donohoe  @teknoteacher for getting the ball rolling with the Raspberry Jams and also for talking to me about what is involved in preparing a successful Jam.

Here's looking forward to the 20th of January and a successful Raspberry Jam.