Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1 – video!
As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we sponsored the Royal Institution’s 2014 Christmas Lectures. They have just made the video of the first of the Lectures – the one with all the Raspberry Pis in it – available to watch online, wherever you are in the world. It’s really worth your while – the Lectures make up some of the year’s best educational TV. Click here or on the image to visit their channel and view.
We’d like to send our very warmest congratulations to this year’s presenter, Professor Danielle George, and to her husband: baby Elizabeth was born just after the lectures aired. (Great choice of name, team George!)
12 comments
Dave Akerman
Did you sponsor the baby’s name too? :-)
Raspberry Pi Staff Liz Upton — post author
It just happens that the George family has exceptional taste in baby names. ;)
Andy
If RPi had named her, she’d be called Babbage, poor kid.
As it is, she’s got her first teddy – I hope!
Ken MacIver
Can you imagine what l’il Elizabeths cot mobile will be like by the time Mum has finished hacking it…
Congratulations to the George family..
Stewart Watkiss
I watched the lectures with both my children, one aged 6 and the other aged 9. Both really enjoyed watching and as a result are really excited about some of the technology and about creating something similar.
Whilst the projects they did for the show were ambitious they were all based on basic things that can be tried at home. So as a result my new Google Cardboard arrived yesterday, so my children have experienced the VR roller coaster and both are excited about what they can do with the Raspberry Pi. We may not be able to turn all the lights on and off on a skyscraper, but could create something similar on a smaller scale using a Raspberry Pi, Makey-Makey and a LED matrix.
I agree completely about it being one of the best educational TV shows and for anyone that hasn’t seen the Christmas Lectures (especially the first one) then I’d highly recommend it.
elParaguayo
I remember going to the lectures as a child and was always thrilled by the enthusiasm for science (and, of course, the mandatory explosions). These lectures brought back some very happy memories.
My kids are too young for this at the moment but that doesn’t stop them enjoying playing with one of my Pis which is set up to play lots of music and flash lights. I’m just looking forward to teaching them how to change it to do what they want it to do…
Andrew
There’s a bit of ‘behind the scenes’ of doing bullet time on our blog http://www.piface.org.uk/iblog
Carrie Anne Philbin
Your understated cameo Andrew, was one of my favourite parts of the show.
Matt Richardson
That was fantastic. She did a great job breaking down the technology into entertaining parts. Kudos to the whole crew that made this happen; it looked like it was no small feat to pull this off.
Gareth
I loved Tetris on Shell Centre. Having worked there last century (I left on 31st dec 1999!) I can only imagine what hoops had to be gone through to get permission to do that. The Logistics must have been very complicated.
Kate Mulcahy
Really glad you enjoyed Tetris on a Skyscraper. You’re absolutely correct it was very challenging logistically and thanks need to go to all the wonderful volunteers but all the hard work was so worth it in the end when I saw it on the telly.
YRR
great！