Issue #40 — Academy
Hi all
This week the Foundation Education team announced a free professional development workshop for primary and secondary teachers, to be led by Carrie Anne and run at Pi Towers in Cambridge.
James Hughes – a Broadcom engineer who works on the camera software in his spare time – this week released code to allow video to be captured at 90 frames per second – and people sent in videos they’d made in these modes, which are quite incredible!
Linux Voice Issue 2 is out now – it features kernel module development, building a Raspberry Pi arcade, a section on Grace Hopper and an interview with 3/4 of the Foundation’s education team: Ben, Clive and Carrie Anne, conducted at the Jamboree.
Ryan’s budget robot kit fundraiser hit its £1000 target in under 24 hours – and now sits at over double that. Meanwhile, kickstarter success guru Alex Eames has announced he’s bringing out three new add-on boards through RasP.iO, who we welcome as sponsors this week.
Ben & Ryan
Picture of the week
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Raspberry Pi’s Creative Producer Rachel Rayns speaking at Makerland conference in Warsaw, Poland
News
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Picademy (raspberrypi.org)
Free CPD for teachers provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation -
New Camera Mode Released (raspberrypi.org)
James Hughes released new camera modes for 90fps recording -
Launching the RasPiO Product Range (raspi.tv)
Alex Eames has launched three add-on I/O boards for Raspberry Pi -
Linux Voice Issue 2 (twitter.com)
Linux Voice Issue 2 is out now, featuring an interview with Clive, Carrie and Ben -
Ryanteck Budget Robot Kit Hits Target (indiegogo.com)
Ryan's budget robotics kit fundraiser hits £1000 target in under 24 hours -
PicoBorg Reverse (piborg.org)
An advanced motor control for the Raspberry Pi, now on sale from PiBorg
Projects
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Roberts Radio (flickr.com)
An old Roberts Radio brought in to the present with a Raspberry Pi -
Raspberry Piggy Bank (youtube.com)
Coin sorting and counting with Raspberry Pi and Arduino -
DoodleBorg (raspberrypi.org)
A three horsepower Raspberry Pi tank-like machine using six PiBorg motor boards -
Pi Trak (smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk)
Raspberry Pi controlled Big trak with a MicRoCon motor control board -
GitPi (instructables.com)
How to set up a private git server on the Raspberry Pi -
Raspberry Pi Retro Restyle (smittytone.wordpress.com)
Part two of Tony's retro project - Recreating the Sinclair ZX81 with a Pi
Articles & more
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Learning Through Gaming (raspberrypi.org)
Allen Heard's Tech Dojo involves learning about technology through building games -
Geek Gurl Diaries: Creating a Time-lapse (youtube.com)
Carrie Anne shows us how to make a time-lapse video with the Pi camera -
Walking in a Maker Wonderland (makezine.com)
Make's coverage of Makerland Day 1 in Warsaw -
Makerland Book (github.com)
Sources and contents for the Makerland book on GitHub -
The Best Raspberry Pi Accessories (lifehacker.com)
Lifehacker summarises its top 6 Raspberry Pi accessories
Upcoming Events
- Exeter Raspberry Jam (22 March)
- University of Manchester Raspberry Jam (29 March)
- Preston Raspberry Jam (31 March)
- Linux User Raspberry Jam (Poole) (5 April)
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