Category: PiWire
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Warning: Pi Voltage (Pi Day 2023)
Pi-Day 2023 update: video clips from the pupils below! Maths geeks the world over adopt the 14th March (written as 3.14 with calendars whose format is month-day) as PiDay to celebrate all things Mathsy but specifically the number pi which begins 3.141592653589793… Chris is renowned for his PiDay antics – it was the topic of…
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Hijacking… piano pedals
Hijacking slightly because there’s a project that’s so cool… This year, I’ve run a Code Club for some primary kids. For weeks, some of them have been designing a slide clicker out of the metal piano pedal using a Makey Makey invention kit (lots of fun). On Sunday, we tested it, with Pi-pal Chris as the ‘volunteer’…
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We’re Baaack…
Fraser here (the programmer). I was updating my own website, and remembered about Pi-Wire. I hadn’t though about this in aaages! When we started Pi-Wire, I was a programmer/PhD student. I really didn’t think that five years later, I’d be a teacher too. Next month, I start as a newly-minted NQT in computing science. Pi-mate Chris…
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The MathTwitterBlogoSphere
The MathTwitterBlogoSphere (wisely abbreviated to #mtbos) is something that I’m keen to observe and dabble in where I can too. I love the idea of sharing Maths ideas, enthusiasm and geekery. My name is Chris Smith, from Scotland and I write a weekly Maths newsletter which goes out by email to over 500 Maths lovers…
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A video showing Pi-Wire in action!
We’ve uploaded a quick video (less than two minutes) which shows off what you’ll see as Pi-Wire generates the visualisation of the first 3141 digits of π. I’m trying to see about getting a more fitting backing track for the video but even with your computer on mute the video is very pretty!
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Would you like a slice of π?
This is a screen shot from the brand new, freely available Pi-Wire program. You pick the constant you want to experiment with (I suggest using the preset one: π), the number of decimal places, the colours, the thickness of lines, the speed… Enjoy!