AI_saacpi Talk and Tech

14 years? Really? So what happened?  When I was a little bitty baby my mother had concerns about my hearing. I wasn’t responding to sound and she was convinced that I was deaf. So… off I went to the audiologist for the relevant tests and passed all of them with flying colours – much to the bewilderment of my family. But, despite this, there we were busy learning British Sign Language, Cued Speech and anything else that caught my parents’ eye that might help me.  After years of testing, still nothing was found, still registering with perfect hearing, and still not hearing well. Until… My dad was given Livio AI hearing aids. “These are good son” (an honest albeit brief review).  So, we got in touch with Starkey’s, who referred me back to Claire Benton from the fabulous audiology team at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, who agreed that Livio AI might just be the thing. “This is good son” said my dad (in ...

I got interested in Pi-Top during a visit to BETT 2017. In fact I was so inspired I submitted and had published a review of the show and in particular Pi-Top in The Week Junior. Following this, I received my first Pi-Top as a Christmas present in December 2017. A rather magnificent Pi-Top Ceed! After a particularly stressful start (in my excitement - I had made a right mess of the set up), I really got stuck in. My first port of call was to get some more in depth experiences of using Python, which I had been using in lessons at school for the past year, but not to any great level of proficiency or detail. The Pi-Top Ceed certainly gave me the opportunity to take more risks in the coding world. Gaining confidence with Python ultimately led me to explore more of the features of Pi-Top, in particular – Pi-Top Coder.  In January 2018, I visited BETT for a second time. This time I had a mission, to meet the Pi- Top team, to find out mo...

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The Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge is a funny thing to consider. A brick and mortar store selling an item that is so heavily based on the internet and the digital world. Surely this is a concept that shouldn't work but it does (extremely well in fact) so well, that I have been back 4 or 5 times yet I still find it extremely interesting every single time I visit. Normally I go when I am working on a project which I need parts for. Rather than buying cheaply made parts from eBay or Amazon that I may not be able to trust, therefore I prefer to buy something which I can see before I commit to a purchase. Previously though I have been to take part in specific events which the shop holds very often. These events are extremely useful for learning new skills with the raspberry pi and I cannot recommend them highly enough. They are free, educational and a lot of fun for beginners and veterans to the Raspberry Pi system alike. What can you buy in this most interesting of bou...