Issue #55 — Butterflies

Hi there

This week we saw some nice projects – including an array of mobile phones programmed to create a butterfly effect (not to be confused with the butterfly effect) and a set of instructions to build your own GameBoy from the awesome people of Adafruit.

Both Ben and Ryan are attending the Cambridge Jam tomorrow – Ben will be speaking about contributing to educational resources with GitHub and giving a Python picamera workshop, and Ryan will be demoing his mighty robots.

This week we have a mystery sponsor! There’s a new exciting project coming to KickStarter. Welcome Flotilla!

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Adafruit’s make your own GameBoy project

News

• Picademy #4 Applications Open (raspberrypi.org)
  Applications for the Foundation's free CDP for teachers in September now open
• Pi In The Sky Add-on Board (daveakerman.com)
  Dave Akerman has launched an add-on board for launching your Pi in to space
• Raspiado (kickstarter.com)
  A neat USB hub that slots on to your Raspberry Pi
• SteampunkPi (kickstarter.com)
  7" LCD XBMC media centre embedded in a steampunk enclosure

Projects

• DIY GameBoy (learn.adafruit.com)
  Build your own GameBoy console from scratch!
• Internet of Things Toilet (raspberrypi.org)
  Making your toilet experience smoother and more environmentally friendly
• The Big Flashing DevOps Thing (raspberrypi.org)
  DevOps at the Financial Times with Nagios, Pi and a lot of glue and sticky tape
• Bedroom Apollo Mission (raspberrypi.org)
  More from the Mission Control Desk of Jeff, the King of Maker Parents
• Retro Gaming Console with Internet Radio (hackaday.com)
  SketchUp designed wooden retro console with small display and radio built in

Articles & more

• Making digital butterflies from old phones (bbc.co.uk)
  An incredible digital art exhibition
• Raspberry Pi Compute Module Video Part 2 (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames adds an array of LEDs to his compute module to demo the GPIO
• Raspberry Pi Compute Module - Getting Started (element14.com)
  Les Pounder on getting started with the compute module
• Talks from Team Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  Eben and Gordon talk compute module and UK manufacturing, respectively

Upcoming Events

• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (5 July)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (5 July)
• Exeter Raspberry Jam (5 July)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (7 July)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (adults) (16 July)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (students) (16 July)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam 21 (19 July)
• Horsham Raspberry Jam (20 July)
• EuroPython (Berlin) (21 - 27 July)
• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (9 August)
• PyConUK (Coventry) (19 - 22 September)

Thanks to our sponsor

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