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

Raspberry Pi’s Creative Producer Rachel Rayns speaking at Makerland conference in Warsaw, Poland

News

• 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

• 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

• 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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