Across the United States: Raspberry Jams at Barnes & Noble
For our fans in the United States, we’ve joined up with Barnes & Noble Booksellers and Make: Magazine to host Raspberry Jams at a handful of select Barnes & Noble stores on Saturday November 7th at 2pm. It’s all a part of the Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire, which runs at all B&N stores November 6th through 8th.
We’ve recruited community members within the United States to host Jams at the key locations listed below, but if you’d like to join in at a different store that’s closer to you, don’t hesitate to contact your store’s Community Relations Manager to let them know you’d like to participate.
Like all other Jams, you’ll find these Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire Jams on our handy Raspberry Jam map:
- 5604 Bay Street, Emeryville, CA
- 1217 Caroline Street, Atlanta, GA
- 5601 Brodie Lane, Austin, TX
- 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA
- 728 Waukegan Road, Deerfield, IL
- Eton Chagrin Boulevard, Woodmere, OH
- 9370 Sheridan Blvd, Westminster, CO
- River Oaks, Houston, TX
- 1701 Mallory Lane, Brentwood, TN
- 33 E 17th St, New York, NY
- 10509 Gravelly Lake Dr. SW, Lakewood, WA
- 1780 North Woodland Park Drive, Layton, UT
- 12193 Fair Lakes Promenade Drive, Fairfax, VA
- 7620 Rivers Avenue, North Charleston, SC
- Monmouth Mall, 180 NJ-35, Eatontown, NJ
- 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose, CA
While you’re there, keep an eye out for The MagPi on the newsstand! You can find more details about The Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire here.
25 comments
Gavin Huston
Barnes and Noble has already given me a table at the 7620 Rivers Avenue North Charleston, SC 29406 Location and my dad and I will have some Raspberry Pi projects there. Is there anything we can do to help?
Matt Richardson — post author
Hey Gavin! Thanks, so glad to hear it! Send me an email at matt@ this domain, I would love to hear more.
W. H. Heydt
Matt…are you planning to be in Emeryville?
Matt Richardson — post author
Yes! Can’t wait.
W. H. Heydt
Anything I can bring that will help?
solar3000
awesome
Dhanush P. Shetty
Can you please do a raspberry pi jam in India as well? In Bangalore
Ethan
I am very excited to be a part of this event. Make sure to stop by if you live in Houston to see my talk!
Jim Manley
I’ll be ready to serve all comers, having met with Robbie, the Community Relations Manager at the Brentwood, TN, location, where I’ll be all day Saturday, November 7th, with a presentation on the Pii, peripherals, and accessories starting at 2 PM on that date. I’ll also be at the Murfreesboro and Hendersonville locations after 4 PM on Friday, November 6th, and all day Sunday, November 8th (I’ll know which location on which day in a few days as they don’t have a manager at the level of Robbie since they’re much smaller).
Thanks to Matt, Eben, Liz, and the rest of the Foundation for inviting me to participate in this great opportunity to expand the Pi’s presence in the central Midwest region. Many have heard of the Pi here, but never laid eyes on one, let alone gotten to play with it. Since the Jams I run with W.H. Heydt at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley have distributor status with Adafruit, Pimoroni, MCM Electronics, Newark, and Allied, among others, we’ll also be able to offer special packages and deals to Mini Maker Faire and Jam attendees in Music City Nashville and the surrounding region.
Matt Richardson — post author
Thank you so much for all your support!
Brandon Fesser
Of course, Minnesota gets overlooked, as usual–despite being the home of 3M, Digi-Key, and scores of other tech companies. We have millions of engineers and geeks… bring us some love!
Jim Manley
The Jam portions of the Mini Maker Faires are being put on by local Pi users with B&N just providing the venues and promotion. Here are the steps needed to put on a Jam at your own B&N:
1. Find a venue – your local B&N store – check!
2. Determine a good day and time to hold it – the Foundation has coordinated that – check!
3. Promote, promote, promote – B&N and the Foundation have performed the kickoff, but local Pi users have to carry the ball over the goal line – check!
4. Encourage everyone in the area to bring their Pii, peripherals, accessories, projects, etc., and have them tell what they’re doing – especially kids – check?
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day – teach them to fish and you feed them for a lifetime …
Matt Richardson — post author
I could not have said it better myself! Thanks, Jim!
Rex Roper
I will be contacting the Community Relations Manager tomorrow (Monday) at the Barnes & Noble store located at 591 South University Dr. Plantation, FL 33324, 954-723-0489 to make arrangements to represent Raspberry Pi.
Rex Roper
Last minute change. I have a willing and exciting invite to setup Raspberry Pi table at the Barnes & Noble located in Pembroke Pines, FL for the reminder of today (Saturday) and all day Sunday. I will be onsite for the 5:00 pm & 7:00 pm Meet The Makers time slots.
Rex Roper
Exciting time was had by all today at Barnes & Noble located at 11820 Pines Blvd. in Pembroke Pines, FL. I arrived at about 4PM to setup demonstration table with a model B v1 (256Mb), a model B (512 Mb), & a model 2B loaded with the latest version of Jessie. I also had an SD card with the latest version of OSMC which I would swap with Jessie on the model 2B.
From the moment I powered up Jessie I had no less than 6 young and intelligent minds ranging in age from 6 to 14 hovering over my table asking questions about mods, mobs, HTML5, CSS6, python, Java script, Scratch, and much more for nearly 3 hours!
I have been invited back by the very enthusiastic people who are running this Barnes & Noble location for another session beginning at 11:00am till as long as I can stand it, or until closing…which ever comes first?.
I hope other locations are experiencing the WOW & Wonder I experienced during today’s event. I am looking forward to a full day tomorrow. I hope to be better prepared with more of my home project on the table.
More to come…
Thareesh bobba
I would love attend these JAM event if it is around Dallas, TX. Is there a plan to have one around DFW area? I am sure there is huge community of geeks around here.
Matt Richardson — post author
Glad to hear that there’s a huge community of geeks in Dallas! If you’d like to participate and help organize a Jam that day, please contact your local B&N’s Community Relations Manager. Contact me via email if you do go forward with it: matt at this domain.
don isenstadt
Ready for 2pm @ Woodmere B&N! Thanks again Matt! Putting posters @ work and telling all my friends! Really excited about it.
-don
Jim Fox
Matt, If you need help at Emeryville, CA location I’d be happy to volunteer and do what I can. I’m pretty handy with the basics of Pi set-up and OS install, ssh, vnc, etc.
W. H. Heydt
Hmmm….may be a good opportunity for local Pi enthusiasts to meet each other…
Steven
Great, the nearest location is only 100 miles away.
Perhaps some additional locations someday?
Tim A
Hello, the Clark NJ B&N store is also looking for some cool makers to demo their Raspberry Pi experience at their store as well. They are looking for something cool to demo it to the kids. For more information, you may click on the web site or ask for Pete or Wayne at 732-574-1818 (store number).
Besides that, I wish you the best in your Raspberry Pi Jam Sessions at the Mini-Maker Faire. From what I hear, this should be exciting. Cheers, Tim
Rex Roper
UPDATE: Day 2 @ Barnes & Noble Pembroke Pines, Florida, USA Sunday, Noon to 7:00PM
The words that come to mind are Exuberant Enthusiasm. Not only are the people at the Barnes & Noble in Pembroke Pines excited and involved with helping young minds learn and getting involved in the local schools, the young minds I found at the Raspberry Pi table today were the same as yesterday’s with plenty of WOW and Wonder… especially with those who did not know what a Raspberry Pi was before the event. The Community Relations Manager, Melinda, and her co-workers were all very much involved and excited there was a Raspberry Pi presence at their location. It is with Melinda’s help that I hope to organize a local Raspberry Pi user-group.
I want to thank Barnes & Noble, Maker Faire, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for making such an exciting weekend possible. I has inspired me to believe we are making up ground to get a Raspberry Pi into the hands of young minds as we can and as soon as possible over here on this side of the pond. You may know we Americans hate showing up late to the party :)
Best wishes to all,
R&R
The Cash Register Cowboy
Rex Roper
OOPS! Those darned typos!!!!
” I has inspired me to believe we are making up ground to get a Raspberry Pi into the hands of young minds as we can and as soon as possible over here on this side of the pond.”
Should read:
“It has inspired me to believe we are making up ground on get as many Raspberry Pi into the hands of young minds as we can, and as soon as possible, over here on this side of the pond.”