Issue #13 — Berlin

Hallo!

This week’s newsletter is brought to you by Ryan as Ben is currently on holiday in Berlin. He’s helping out at a Python workshop run by Open Tech School at the weekend – and he’ll be speaking about Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Jams at Geek2Geek at Behrenstraße 28 on Tuesday evening. Ryan has been busy with starting college and is planning to soon run his own Raspberry Jam in Stevenage next month.

Tschüß

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Today’s picture is from Jonathan Furness who works at Ivy Chimneys Primary School. They are using the Raspberry Pi to power their new electronic noticeboard while also showcasing the Pi by annotating parts around it.

News

• RaspyFi V1 launched (raspberrypi.org)
  RaspyFi OS for the RPi launches, supporting Apple AirPlay out of the box
• PiHub USB & Power Supply for the Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  The PiHub is designed to power a Pi and 3 extra USB devices
• Electronics Weekly Pi Factory Tour (electronicsweekly.com)
  Electronics Weekly's tour and video from around the Pi factory in Wales

Projects

• Hand Of Pi (whiskeytangohotel.com)
  A Project for controlling a robotic hand with a Raspberry Pi via Twitter
• Nova Drone controlled via Raspberry Pi (manjunan.com)
  Manjunan Gnanaratnam's project write up on using a Nova Drone with the Pi
• Waterproofing your Timelapse Rig (fotosyn.com)
  Jim at Fotosyn explains how he waterproofed his Pi Timelapse Rig
• Open Hardware Summit Photobooth (baldwisdom.com)
  Photobooth creating images for e-paper badges at the Open Hardware Summit

Articles & more

• SymPiosis From Bytemark (blog.bytemark.co.uk)
  How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Symbiosis hosting box
• How to Clone Your SD Card for Easy Reinstallations (lifehacker.com)
  Lifehacker on cloning your Pi's SD Cards for easy reinstallation
• Fixing Errors while upgrading Raspbian (codingepiphany.com)
  Coding Epiphany explains a few ways to fix common apt-get problems on Raspbian

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