{"id":4256,"date":"2012-08-19T18:32:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T17:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2012-08-22T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T10:35:04","slug":"first-milton-keynes-raspberryjam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/first-milton-keynes-raspberryjam.htm","title":{"rendered":"First Milton Keynes #RaspberryJam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/short-takes-raspberry-jam-raspberryjam-and-milton-keynes-geek-night-mkgn.htm\">I mentioned that I&#8217;d been to a Raspberry Jam event in London<\/a>, so I was very excited to see <a href=\"http:\/\/mkraspberryjam.eventbrite.com\/\">a jam advertised for Milton Keynes<\/a>, one of the towns near where I live. Not only was it in Milton Keynes but at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnmoc.org\/\">The National Museum of Computing<\/a> in Bletchley Park &#8211; a place which I was embarrassed to say I&#8217;d never visited, despite only living a dozen or so miles away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I booked onto the event and then noticed that it was on a Sunday morning. \u00a0Evenings are generally not a problem for me but weekends are sacred \u00a0family time so I thought I might have to pull out, until I realised my family would be away and I was home alone. Time to geek out!<\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s Raspberry Jam, organised by Peter Onion (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/peteronion\">@PeterOnion<\/a>) did not disappoint. With around 30\u00a0enthusiasts\u00a0of varying abilities and even representation from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in the form of Rob Bishop (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rob_bishop\">@Rob_Bishop<\/a>), there were talks on a variety of topics, followed up with a tour of The National Museum of Computing (I&#8217;ll save that for a separate blog post).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First up was\u00a0amateur\u00a0radio engineer Andy Brown, who had brought along his 1940s television set, rescued from a skip and &#8220;upgraded&#8221; with a Raspberry Pi and a former CCTV monitor. The original CRT scanned at 405 lines and is non-functional (although Andy hopes to restore it one day) but running\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspbmc.com\/\">RaspBMC<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/aptsarchive\">a selection of videos from the Alexandra Place Television Society<\/a>, Andy says the &#8220;television&#8221; generates a lot of interest in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makingthebest.co.uk\/\">his shop<\/a>! There&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/archives\/1721\">more information including some videos on the Raspberry Pi website<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makingthebest.co.uk\/epages\/950000440.sf\/en_GB\/?ObjectPath=\/Shops\/950000440\/Categories\/Raspberry_Pi_TV\">a description and photograph on Andy&#8217;s own site<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Next, Brian Hogan demonstrated RISC OS on a Raspberry Pi. 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It&#8217;s all to easy to\u00a0forget\u00a0that, although the current version of the Pi was intended for developers in preparation for a broader educational release, it&#8217;s been massively popular with 350,000 boards shipped (and on target for a million by the end of the year!). 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