EPIKhub
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8 years ago Session accepted in the Youth Zone
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EPIKhub
commented
8 years ago Session accepted in the Youth Zone
[ ID ] 44d9c6ed-123b-4ea4-a361-f61996073a9c
[ Submitter's Name ] Lauren Hopkins [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] UTC Sheffield [ Submitter's Twitter ] @UTCSheffield
[ Space ] youth
[ Format ] hands-on
Description
Make your world in Minecraft Pi Edition. Choose anywhere in England and build it into Minecraft using LIDAR data. The whole nation has been scanned with "Lasers" and anyone can use the data. So using open source javascript we developed at school you can build real terrain and buildings in glorious blocks. Then modify it to make it more realistic or see where might flood in a storm or redesign your school. You should be able to take a copy of your creation (if you bring a USB stick) and we will show you how to install the code on your Pi.
Agenda
We would need to use the Youth Zone RPi room. Mr Eggleton will speak to Andrew about using Raspbian Jessie on PiNet or can bring 30 standalone micro SD cards. We would :- 1) Introduce the project and do a quick fly through of some worlds we have built 2) get the participants to look at some data and see if they can find buildings etc. 3) Explain where the data comes from and where to get it for themselves 4) Get them to run the software, choose a place, search for it, load it and build it in Minecraft. 5) Get them to modify the area they have imported 6) Think of things they could do with the code at home etc. and maybe have a go 7) Gather bug reports, issues, ideas 8) Get any data / code that they want to take on to USB sticks
Participants
The RPi room had lots of room last year. If there is a very small group we would try to get them to sit relatively near each other. Mr Eggleton tells us that last year Andrew from PiNet had a plan for if the group was too large which worked ok. If there are too many adults Mr Eggleton can work with them.
Outcome
We would love other schools and groups to find useful things to do with our code and the LIDAR data from OpenDEFRA. We think we could use the participants feedback or help to make teaching resources for it. We would love them to fork our code and join in. We would love help on some harder things on our to do list like using mapping or satellite images to colour our buildings.