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Track a space station
Plus
CONTROL
with Pi
GESTURE
Welcome
Did you know that a Raspberry
Pi is blasting off to space in just
a few weeks? Part of the Astro Pi
competition, it’ll be sent up to the
International Space Station with astronaut Tim
Peake and a new add-on called the Sense
HAT, plus code that has been written by
primary and secondary school kids. We spoke
to the teacher of one of the winning code
clubs, Dan Aldred, to find out more about
the competition and Thirsk School’s winning
entry – an ISS tracker – and we’ve even got a
tutorial for you on how to re-create the project.
Also in
RasPi
this month, we’ve got a great
guide to adding touch and gesture control to
your Pi with a brilliant board called Hover, so
you can interact just by waving your hand!
Get inspired
Discover the RasPi
community’s best projects
Expert advice
Got a question? Get in touch
and we’ll give you a hand
Easy-to-follow
guides
Learn to make and code
gadgets with Raspberry Pi
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Contents
Astro Pi: Sending code to space
Dan Aldred tells the story of the Space-Byrds
Track the International Space Station
Map its movements and show welcome messages
Install a reset switch
Make it easier to safely remove power
Add gesture control
Get your hands on a Hover board
Pi Glove
Put the power of a Pi at your fingertips
What is the Model A+?
Find out what the tiny board’s good for
Forecasting the weather
Code your own weather report ticker
Astro Pi:
Sending
code to space
Clever Year 7 students at Thirsk School have made an
amazing tracking system for the International Space
Station. We speak to their teacher to find out more…
Can you tell us more about your students at
Thirsk School who won the competition?
It was actually a code club that I’d set up at
lunchtimes. The original reason for setting it up was to
give students, who were perhaps what we call vulnerable
learners, something to do at lunchtime – students who
would struggle being in the playground; maybe their
behaviour means they would get into difficulty, or they were
just a bit more timid and so didn’t have anywhere to go.
Also, I was keen on making sure that the coding and the
Raspberry Pi wasn’t about bright kids – I wanted to make
sure that low-ability kids and special needs kids had access
to coding and all the benefits that it offers.
So I set up a coding club for lunchtimes, started with
Minecraft,
Sonic Pi, picamera photo hacking, and then
this competition came along and I said, “Look, this is the
opportunity we’ve got: a space rocket’s going to go up to
the ISS with an astronaut and an Astro Pi. What do you
think?” They were like, “Yeah! Let’s do it, let’s do it!” And it
grew from there – we ended up with eight to ten students
who stayed every lunchtime for seven weeks, creating their
winning solution.
That’s amazing dedication!
It is! In the end it became quite social, and by about week
four they could see the results of what they’d made and
start to get excited, thinking that it could actually win. But
yeah, the dedication from them was huge, really motivated.
It must have been great for building a sense of
community too, particularly with the vulnerable learners.
It was very exciting and rewarding personally, too. We
started off with a shared document, so all the students
could access the code from home, and what I found was
Dan Aldred
is
a Raspberry Pi
Certified Educator
and a Lead School
teacher for CAS.
He led a winning
team of the Astro Pi
Secondary School
Contest and his
students’ code is
being sent to the ISS
in December.

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