Issue #25 — Cambridge

This week Ben finished his move to Cambridge and has now started at Pi Towers where he’s settling in nicely. Ryan is currently ordering all of the components to start producing his Motor Driver Board.

Both Ben and Ryan will be in attendance at the Cambridge Raspberry Jam tomorrow, where Ryan will be presenting and demonstrating his Motor Board. There are a limited number of remaining tickets due to a large party dropping out – and those of you further afield will be able to watch the presentations online by registering for a free ticket on Eventbrite for the live stream.

The Linux Voice campaign gained a lot of traction this week when Eben pledged his utmost support for the project. This was also backed by a post from Liz with a compelling comment from Alex Bradbury on what makes it such an important project.

Carrie Anne’s book is due to be released today – which we’re really excited about. Ben managed to get hold of a copy at Pi HQ and was vastly impressed with it.

Congratulations also to arkOS which reached its funding goal this week.

Live long and prosper.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Ben hard at work at Raspberry Pi, with his bicycle helmet at rest on the office turret

News

• Welcome Ben! (raspberrypi.org)
  Liz Upton welcomes Ben to the Raspberry Pi Team
• Movember Over (raspberrypi.org)
  Eben wraps up his first year of Movember raising £1,500 for men's health
• The MagPi Issue 19 (themagpi.com)
  How to build a Quadcopter, monitoring the environment, SonicPi and more

Projects

• Xmas For All - Interactive Christmas Tree (xmas4all.co.uk)
  Control the christmas tree lights in Graham's house, direct from your browser!
• SkyJack, Drone Hacking (samy.pl)
  Samy Kamkar's Pi-powered Parrot AR Drone
• Bullet Time Effect - Frozen Raspberry Pi (pifacedigital.wordpress.com)
  Andrew Robinson and team recreate the matrix-style camera effect: bullet time
• Raspberry Pi Cyborg Pack (piborg.org)
  The PiBorg Cyborg - out just in time for Christmas
• Making Your Own IoT Gadget (charlottegodley.co.uk)
  Charlotte connects an RGB strip to the internet to let people control the LEDs
• Cache Berry Pi (smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk)
  Geocaching in your car with Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi Time-lapse - in the field! (pifacedigital.wordpress.com)
  Andrew Robinson's new time-lapse setup with the PiFace Control and Display

Articles & more

• Linux Basics for Raspberry Pi Users (raspberrywebserver.com)
  Steve Breuning on Linux basics for use with the Raspberry Pi
• Node Powered 8-Bit CPU (perkin.org.uk)
  Controlling an 8-bit computer CPU using a Raspberry Pi GPIO and node.js
• Raspberry Pi Arcade Stick DTV (bencao74.blogspot.de)
  Building an arcade stick that can be directly plugged to TV

Upcoming Events

• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (7 December)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam Livestream (7 December)

Contact & Submissions

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