Creative Projects with Raspberry Pi
A book about projects created using the Raspberry Pi has been released, including details about how Erica was constructed. It’s available from Amazon.
Erica will be at the Science and Engineering day 2016!
Erica will be at Southampton’s Science and Engineering day on March 12th 2016!
Science and Engineering Day 2015
Erica made her second annual appearance at the University of Southampton’s Science and Engineering Day. She was based in the Nightingale building along with loads of other demonstrations from Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) such as “How healthy is your …
Raspberry Pi2’s and HATS
With the 2015 science and engineering family day fast approaching and the release of the new Raspberry Pi 2 Erica is to get a performance boost. With the additional processing power and memory on the new Pis, Erica will be …
Erica Wins Vice Chancellor’s Award
Erica was last week the proud recipient of a University of Southampton’s Vice Chancellor’s (VC) award. At he awards ceremony on morning of Friday 25th July, Erica and her team of received the award from the Vice Chancellor for: “the phenomenal …
Erica’s WAIS Seminar
On the 2nd July 2014, at the last Web and Internet Science (WAIS) research group seminar on the season, a group of Erica’s creators presented a seminar entitled “ERICA: The Making of the ECS Cyber Rhino”. It chronicled the history …
Erica’s New Interactive Touch Screens
One of the major upgrades to Erica before she went off to the Big Bang Fair was replacing her old side screens with interactive touch screens. Making the side screens interactive meant having to completely rewrite the web pages they …
New LED system installed
As mentioned in the earlier led post Erica has been given a LED upgrade. The boards have been soldered up and installed. The boards where built in two versions the side controllers where equipped with connectors for the single channel leds whilst the ones in the …
Erica Plinth Upgrade
As a part of taking Erica to the big bang her plinth needed improving. The original version had a single captive mains cable to provide Erica with power. Although this was fine when Erica was in the Marlands we have …
Erica finally in her new home
After Erica’s recent trip to Birmingham for the Big Bang Fair, Erica has been back in Southampton but has only just had chance to set up in her new home in the Mountbatten building foyer. Over the weekend Erica’s attended …
In association with:
