outreach – Software & project development – Learning resources & teacher training • Hobbyist turned employee • Based in Cambridge, UK • @ben_nuttall on Twitter
free resources for use at home and school • We run programmes to engage young people in digital making • We support a network of Code Clubs in Primary Schools
to teach with – Particularly RPi.GPIO and PyGame • Teachers staying in Scratch too long – Need help moving to Python – GPIO in Scratch is difficult • Problems with RPi.GPIO – Too much boilerplate code required for even simple examples – Lots of copy/paste for complex components – Not Pythonic
14 Sept – Initial commit on GitHub • 15 Sept – Named GPIO Zero, first PR, first alpha released on PyPI • 28 Sept – v0.6 public beta 1 • 25 Oct – v0.9 public beta 4 • 16 Nov – v1.0 released • 21 Nov – Released in Raspbian Jessie • 8 Feb – v1.1 released • 10 Apr – v1.2 released
from RPi.GPIO to pigpio • Better remote GPIO support • Promote use of “gpiozero standard” to allow other modules to provide objects which plug-in to gpiozero objects easily (e.g. source/values)
PDF download) • Now the official Raspberry Pi magazine • Paper copies on sale in UK shops and online • Still a free PDF download • Occasionally comes with a free computer • Book series (also available for free)